On Sunday, July 15 [2022], Bold Bison continued an epic journey from West Coast client to West Coast client by flying from San Diego to Washington State. Patrick would only be there four days, but I would be there for over a week and a half. Along with a bunch of adventures and a lot of good work, I ended the trip with a day at Olympic National Park, the park that Sean and I visited just second on this whole National Park odyssey.

The flight from San Diego to Seattle that summer morning was just spectacular. I saw five National Parks as we flew adjacent to the Sierra Nevada and the Cascades, with the white-peaked volcanoes of Oregon and Washington like pearls on a string.

We were based in Bellingham, Washington, with our client, Kinship Conservation Fellows.

There to capture photos and video footage and interviews, Patrick and I accompanied them on a Sunday excursion to Mount Baker.

The following Tuesday (July 19, [2022]), after driving Patrick and a colleague to SEA-TAC airport, I drove back to Bellingham via Whidbey Island.

Because I had been to the US-Mexico Border on the trip, one evening I drove up to see the US-Canada Border between Blane, Washington and White Rock, British Columbia.

The next weekend, the group went to the San Juan Islands, and I joined them to continue capturing material.

On Monday, July 25 [2022], I drove down to Seattle and checked into the Palihotel.

Next morning, Tuesday, July 26 [2022], I was up and out the door at 5:45am to circumnavigate the Olympic Peninsula. I started by heading south through Tacoma, where I stopped for coffee, before heading across the base of the peninsula toward Aberdeen.

I headed out to the coast on US-101, arriving at Beach 1 some three and a half hours after I’d left downtown Seattle.

I had the beach to myself on this misty morning, yet bright morning.

A little further on, I also stopped at Beach 4.

I probably could have hung out on the coast all day, but I was looking forward to a return to Hoh Rainforest, so I kept going on my circumnavigation of the peninsula.