gardengal님의 하이킹

gardengal님은 Washington State에 사시는데, 어제 하이킹을 가셨다가 제게 사진을 보내주셨읍니다. 혼자 보기가 너무 아까워서 올립니다. 이건 그 분이 보낸 이메일의 일부이구요.

{Today's hiking trail was absolutely beautiful! However getting there was a little tricky because of poor road signs. I don't know why but the WA state has the worst signage of all the states I've travelled and it was one of my biggest gripes when I moved here.

Anyway, there were 4 of us (all female). Initially, one of the ladies volunteered to drive her Camry but because we had to travel on forest road, the other lady volunteered to drive her 4-weel drive truck. It was a very good thing she did because we ended up on desolate logging roads and it was very scary and bumpy.

I've been never been on logging roads before and i thought about the Korean guy who came up from SF to Seattle with his family during Thanksgiving a few years ago and was stuck on snowed in logging road and was killed when he left the car trying to find a help for his family. Do you remember that? 예 저도 기억해요. 너무 가슴이 아팠던 사건이었어요.

After spending about an hour or so trying to find our way back, we were able to find the trail entrance. The trail followed the river with gushing water all the way and it was one of the most beautiful hiking trail I've been on. I thought about your property because of the water. The weather was just beautiful as well. The trail was moderately difficult but it wasn't too bad and we had no problem finishing the 6.4 mile round trip.}

gardengal님 사진 고마워요. 무성한 녹음과 계곡이 더위에 지친 제 가슴까지 시원하게 해주었습니다.

산란하러 가는 연어들

Washington State에 사시는 gardengal님이 보내 오신 사진들입니다. 연어들이 산란을 하려고 조그만 개천을 거슬러 올라 가는 것을 찍었답니다. 전 알래스카에서만 이런 것을 볼 수 있으려니 했는데....너무나 신기해서 여기에 올립니다.



세마리의 연어가 사이좋게 물을 거슬러 올라 가고 있습니다.


아랫글은 가든겔님의 글 중에서...그냥 허락없이 제가 옮겨왔어요. 저 용서해주실거죠? :)

Now is the season for chum salmon spawning around here and since we had a decent day yesterday, I went to see them.  Believe it or not they come right up to the creeks around the neighborhood.  The creek I went is about 3 miles away and there were quite a few of them trying to swim upstream in such shallow water.  It was so cool to see such big fish in such shallow water that sometimes their back is exposed to air.  Have you ever seen salmon spawning?   The sad reality is that they die once they lay eggs.......

연어들이 이렇게 조그만 거슬러 올라가서 알을 낳고 나면 죽는다고 그럽니다. 새끼들이 알을 까서 자라는 것도 못보고... 아래에 열심히 연어구이 해먹은 것 올렸는데, 괜히 미안한 생각이 가득....