Sasquatch Hunting 2013 Part 3

I think this shall be my final installment of the Sasquatch series.  While it pains me to say that we did not in fact meet up with Sasquatch, we were lucky enough to encounter a variety of other creatures.  I already told you about the spawning salmon, and I'd now like to introduce you to our friendly neighborhood porch bat, Batthra.  Pronounce Bat-thra.



One afternoon we discovered that the porch had become a resting place for our nighttime bug-eating ally.  Luckily enough, Laura has two porches and two doors, so we simply started using the other one in case Batthra had rabies or some shit.  The morning after we discovered her, I checked, and she was still there.  Then sometime IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY, she left.  Whatchyoo flying in the day for, Batthra?  Probably gots the rabies.  Or else she moved to the barn in the neighbor's yard, which is what we had been telling her to do.

For my very last day in Washington, I requested a trip to the old growth forrest to see some BIG ASS trees.  The old growth forrest is just that, old and growy.  We only hiked in for a few minutes before we encountered a skronked up wasps' nest in the middle of the trail.  Laura suffered her first ever bee sting this summer, and apparently there is a such thing as ground hornets or whatever that be stinging the shit out of people who go off trail.  We decided to stop there and make do with whatever big ass trees that were in our immediate vicinity.



Here is a big ass tree.



Here's me by the big ass tree for reference.



Here are some dead big ass trees.  They call these nurse trees because there all kinds of baby trees growing out of them.



Then Laura remembered that I had pointed out some BIG ASS trees on our way home from hiking the day before, and took me to a "secret" place with giant cedars.  She works at the visitor center, and said they don't mention this place much to outsiders.  She'd never actually been there herself.  It indeed had the big ass cedars, as well as a little trail to the river.  The river here looked glorious, straight out of a fairy tale or some shit.  It was also conveniently located above Nooksack falls, the end of the road for the salmon on account of they can't make it up a waterfall that size.  So no dead bodies or salmon infestation.  We took our shoes off and did some wading in the freezing cold glacier run off river.



Oh look, it's me in the crotch of a stand of big ass cedars.  Please note my cool new look.  Leggings rolled up, boots on with giant man socks pooling out of the top.  I know how to work it forrest-style.

Then I decided we better stop at Nooksack falls because we had to drive by it on our way home anyway.





Here is a not good picture of us at the falls.

Then we hung out at home for a while before taking one last trip to the river to see if we could call forth our Bald Eagle amigos, using unsecured poodle bait.



Butter was running around while I shot this, and if you blow it up and look closely, he's in this picture several times!

Alas, no eagles answered our calls.  Then of course Laura said she saw three on her way home from dropping me off at the airport!  Blast!!

I have a few more random out of context pictures to share before I wrap this thing up for good.



Magical yawning Little Kitty.  Laura's friend got this cat a few years ago, and he happens to leave town every summer.  That's when Laura gets kitty custody.  I've happened to be lucky enough to coincide my visits with Little Kitty's presence that last couple times I've been there.  Apparently LK's other owner calls her by a different name, Shuksan, after this pretty mountain here.



She is a tree climbing beast and I love her.

One day at the river I set my camera up on a timer for a breast friends forever picture.  Just as I sat down, the timer went off as a bird crapped on Laura's head.  Then I had to wash it out before we could proceed to retakes.





Here's a good one I obviously edited heavily.  I'm addicted to phone apps, ok?

I think that ought to do it!  Laura just informed me that her trip home to South Dakota to visit her family this Friday includes a 5 hour layover at the Denver airport, so I'm crazy excited to go hang out with her and have airport fun times in a couple days!  Reunited so soon!

And Felix is back in school today, just in time before I went completely crazy.  Now I better try to do some more entertaining stuff so I can have crap to write about here.