Kay's Photo Journal - August 2023
8/2/2023 Campbell River Museum, BC - Ishikari Hokkaido, Japan, and Campbell River are sister cities for more than 3 decays. Red Torii Gate is located across street from the museum. I learned that main perpose of the floating house is the logger familly moved to another place, take house with them.
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8/4/2023 Ferry from Victoria to Seattle, WA - Clipper that the name of the ferry and carry only passengers not automobiles. There were so many people, seems to full house. About 3 hrs to reach to Seattle, passed many islands, but not enogh announcements which I was expected.
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8/4/2023 Chihulyn Garden and glass, Seattle, WA - There are many chihuly’s glass art works in and outside the building. Most of his glass art works are large, colorful and unique. Not easy to take photos of the display because there were many visitors.
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8/5/2023 iFly, Seattle, WA - Massive air blow up from the bottom of the large tube to lift up people, so that people can fly. Instructor teachs how to fly up/down and rounding in the tube. Where my folks enjoy flying, I was taking their photos, but it was not easy to take photos because they were constantly moving quickly.
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8/5/2023 The Museum of Flight, Seattlel, WA - Air show was performing and showing the Blue Angels team’s tricky fly. There are many display airplaines by section of areas, need least 2 to 3 hrs to see all airplanes.
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8/6/2023 Museum of Pop Culture, Seattle, WA - There are many sections to explore in the building and each section is unique. There are many displays, one of the display is large amount of guiters to built mountain like or tube like that was got people’s attention.
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8/6/2023 Seattle, WA - We spent time in the Public Market. There were ton’s of people at the top floor/ground level, but other floors are not many visitors. There is a record store that surprised me, because I thought it was history but actually does exist today.
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8/7/2023 Ferry from Victoria to Port Angeles, WA - I didn’t make a reservation, because I didn’t know when I’m ready to boad. That's the why I have to wait long time, 7 hrs, to boad to the last ferry of the day. A good thing was I had a time to go shopping during waiting period.
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8/9/2023 Agate Point, WA - There are suppose to petroglyphs in this area, I got waypoint from the Internet, but nothing there that was disappointed. Oh well... I have to reserch more to find acuracy information for the next time.
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8/9/2023 Ferry from Kingston to Edmonds, WA - Ferry was smooth seiling even raining and dark cloudy condition, only 20 minutes ride. All passengers were stay inside the car include me too.
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8/10/2023 Wenatchee Valley Museum, WA - This museum has petroglyphs that relocated from the Columbia River before the dam was built. All petroglyphs rocks are smaller in size. There were many more petroglyphs, but those are under the water.
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8/10/2023 Soap Lake, WA - It is a good size lake, very quiet and no-one here. Water is very clear and not cold. Beautiful area but not many trees or bushes.
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8/11/2023 Frog Pond Trail, Oroville, WA - Visitor Information guy told me there are known 758 rock art sites in the Oroville mountain ridge. However he doesn’t tell me the location of any one of them. I've hiked to the Frog Pond trail, there are many poison ivies, and found no rock art.
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8/13/2023 Loomis RA, WA - A large boulder east side of the Sinkhekin Road. This boulder is heavily spray painted, which destroyed majority of pictographs, but can see some pictographs between graffiti, that fading out.
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8/15/2023 Highway 20 Roadside RA-1, Wauconda, WA - Pictographs are red color pigment that confusing with red color lichen. It is on the south face rock wall, some of are fading out but overall still a good condition.
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8/15/2023 Highway 20 Roadside RA-2, Wauconda, WA - Red color pigment of pictographs are faded out and outerlayer of rocks were peeled off, also missing some parts of figures. A good news is many figures are still visible.
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8/16/2023 Omak Lake, WA - There are pictographs panels and strenious hike to see it, but under the 107°F temperature that impossible, leave it to next time in cool day. The lake view was not clear view by near the wildfire.
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8/16/2023 Wells Dam, Okanogan River, WA - This place is located west side of the Columbia River. There is no human interactive information center, all information is displayed. There is a rock art boulder in the case, which relocated from the original site.
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8/16/2023 Rocky Reach Dam, WA - There are displayed replica of the rock art panels in the Discover Center. There is a fish tunnel in the Columbia River, water is running and fishes are swimming that we can see it all live action from the inside view area of the building.
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8/18/2023 Cashmere Museum RA, WA - This museum has many petroglyphs rocks and many items that belong to the Native Indians. Museumself is not so large, but collections are very intensive. There are different floors that open for the public.
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8/20/2023 Rocky Coulee Recreation Area, WA - Strange thing that looks like petroglyphs but not, just like rock warms ate parts of the rock and moved. It constantly moved and end up just like petroglyphs. Figures were not pictures, movement of the rock eating warm. Air quality was bad by wildfires, can’t see the other side of the Columbia River.
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8/20/2023 Yakima Nation Cultural Center, WA - I was fascinating the desing of the event center building of the Yakima Nation Cultural Center. We can rent this event center. Unexpectedly they displayed petroglyphs rocks, some of are original and some of are replica in the museum. At the center of the museum, there are just like TeePee, but little more elegant temporaly shelter.
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8/22/2023 Processer Park RA, WA - The petroglyphs boulder was moved from the Yakima River to this Processer City Park and located one corner of the park. There are a few figures on the boulder.
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8/23/2023 Graffiti Cave, north of Yakima, WA - I was looking for the Selah Canyon rock art site, which is the one mile north of the railroad station. Hoever no-one knows where is the railroad station. And end up the tunnel that was using by old highway. Currently new highway is not using the tunnel, and closed one side, so that its cave now. There are ton’s of colorful graffiti in/out the cave.
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8/24/2023 Tieton Canyon, WA - I have an information about rock art panels around here but that was not enough to pin point. A couple bicyclers tried to help my out and they asked a few people, but they couldn't find it. When they were on ride, I was on feet, we were end up empty handed.
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8/27/2023 Tieton Canyon RA search, HW 12, WA - A ranger told me there is a one pictograph and I found it by the HW 12. However an information that I got from the Internet said two separate locations, not far each other, there are more than a dozen pictographs each.
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