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This weekend was fantastic. We left straight from work and quickly went from heavy traffic and cities to dark, empty streets and thick fog. Actually, the fog was pretty creepy, especially when every once in a while you'd catch a glint of deer eyes off to the side of the road. But we found the cabin and it was delightfully tiny and warm.
We pretty much just went straight to bed, although not before catching sight of the gorgeous star-filled sky. I'm not sure I've ever quite seen that many stars before. For some reason, however, I was unable to get a non-blurry shot of them, despite pulling up the mirror in my camera and putting it on a timer. Hmm. Unless it was the stars themselves - do they move that fast, though?

The following day was gorgeous as well - the lady who owned the cabins kept remarking on how the sun had come out in the first day in like, ever. And it being the rainforest, we wholly appreciated this. We drove around the lake in its entirety, which took pretty much all morning, stopping at various junctures to frolic and take photos. An eagle dropped its fish in front of us at one point, apparently startled. Otherwise, wildlife sightings were scarce, possibly because they were just as blinded by the light as we were. We lunched and we napped and we went out again and found an awesome abandoned homestead. It was getting dark, though, and I'd left my camera behind, so we vowed to come back to the next day with camera + strobes.

Unfortunately, the next day the rain forest decided to reclaim its name. I constructed a hood out of cardboard and gaffer's tape to keep the rain off of my lens, but it still wasn't too much fun trying to grab photos of the homestead in the rain. But the hood did a good job later when we went hiking. Need more cardboard. And possibly gaffer's tape. Which did double duty that night keeping a towel in place while our window leaked in the midst of a rather violent storm. That was exciting; the storm knocked out our power, too, waking us up in the middle of the night with its screeching winds grabbing at the sides of the cabin. Eek. But we made it through the night and left the next morning.

But we had to stop by the coast on our way home, of course. ^-^

The rest of the photos, as usual, here.