The promised family pictures ... two visits to the Olympic Peninsula, many many photos. I already posted a link to some photos a couple of days ago. The only thing I did not post so far were more photos of us being there. So here they are:
-correction 3 visits so far but only photos of the first two visits here!-

You have to stay somewhere overnight - each time it was just perfect!

(flaming up marshmallows)

Dungenous Spit - Strait of Juan de Fucca

waiting for the bigger waves in between to reach our stump

Pacific Beaches Rialto Beach and Beach 4

Tide pools are great! Starfish, sea-anemones, and many small fish.

oh yes and plenty of driftwood!

Since the rain forest is close to the beaches (close in the American sense of distance not the German) we twice combined these locations on one day!

Hoh Rainforest

finally found a very small tree to sit on - the others were just to big

Hurricane Ridge Pictures

seeing this I just want to go out and scramble scramble scramble ... 

so does he ;-) or at least dress up as if!