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Originally Posted by bugstrider (Post 11405800)

I was like…….WTF is that until I realized it was up close and personal shot of a turtle, soft shell???

Yeah, I don't recognize Fuglee dates the next morning either....:rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Skip Newsom (Post 11401527)

Minus 3 foot tides midday and midweek beckon me to go see some beach spots normally inaccessible.

A 40 minute drive and a mile of tidal flat/bird sanctuary wandering puts you at Craft Island.
It's a big dang rock out in the Skagit delta where it meets the Salish Sea.

Flats were not too muddy and exploding with flowers, cattails and mind bending distant vistas. Nice and quiet save for a couple overnighter kayakers, several mums and a small tassel of kids under 8 years old... and Navy Jets, ours thank goodness.

Easy enough to put plenty of distance on the kids and mums once we navigated up over part of the rock and down onto what seemed limitless beach made of sand ground out of the North Cascade mountains by the mighty Skagit. An absolutely amazing expanse of shallows, mud and sand.
Covered at least a mile of beach and could have gone much further if we wanted to do a little wading here and there.

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Beautiful. I always love your posts! I remember my first time in Seattle was May of 2000 for work with one other guy. When we had downtime from work, we just drove around at random and ended up in some neighborhood near water somewhere south of Seattle. Every yard and space was green and there were flowers everywhere. Another day, we drove to Snowqualmie. Another day we drove to Mt Ranier, and then kept going to Mt St Helens. (we got there ready to work, but the environment wasn't ready/prepared for us to do our work). The things that I saw and did that trip really made an impression.

hanging out on a rose leaf this morning
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yesterday's sunset through the window.
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Sunrise Jul 1
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Sunrise Jul 2
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Fresh
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Yummy!
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Some mushrooms from the yard.
These looked super delicate
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this is the same mushroom, but on 2 different mornings. I think this same mushroom lasted 4 or 5 days which seems pretty unusual
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not quite as delicate looking as the first.
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we have a saying in dutch "You can give a monkey a golden ring, it's still an ugly thing"
Now in this case, it's still a Ford innit.

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This fella was sitting on a leaf on the rose bush the other day.
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A couple of days later, and he's still there.
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Having some breakfast.
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Many years ago, I had a photo of a smaller one of ^those^ eating an assassin bug. Then within a week, I had another photo of an assassin bug eating one of those spiders.

And a tiny cousin hanging out on one of the other flowers.
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I'm not sure where he though he was going?
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I've got a nice camera with nice lenses, but 99.9% of my photos are taken with my phone. It's always on me and takes pretty good photos. It's an amazing time that we live in.

Speaking of spiders. I grabbed these shots while mowing the lawn several weeks back.
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for some size reference
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next to the toe of my rubber boot for size reference
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And then on another occasion a couple of weeks after seeing the tarantula, I saw a tarantula hawk flying around looking for a victim. Its body had to be 2-3" long.

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remind me never to move there Steve....

bugstrider - yes, a harmless soft shell turtle. Looks menacing close up!

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Originally Posted by Jolly Amaranto (Post 11408880)

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I always wondered what looking out one of those train windows would be like. Thanks Jolly. I'd love to ride a train across country but would probably get motion sick.:(

I am addicted to riding trains. Private rail cars are the best way to go but owning one is worse than a large boat. Lots of maintenance cost. So, I mooch rides off of friends.
Wagon Mound New Mexico.
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Originally Posted by Jolly Amaranto (Post 11408947)

Sorry to go OT on this, but is there a ride/tour that you can do by train where they have "cool, old" style cars and service?

private rail cars?? huh?