Living on the Olympic Peninsula, I'm fascinated by everything around me! The intertidal life on the beaches with seaweed, sea stars, anemones, birds, mollusks, and crabs, and the forests and mountains with trees, wildflowers, mushrooms, mosses, and lichens are all amazing! In May 2016 I started an iNaturalist project, which I hope you will join: http://www.inaturalist.org/projects/crabs-of-the-world

My favorite field guides and other resources include:
Andy Lamb & Bernard P. Hanby's Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest
Gregory C. Jensen's Crabs and Shrimps of the Pacific Coast
http://soundwaterstewards.org/ezidweb/
Pojar & MacKinnon's Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast
David Allen Sibley's The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America
Merrill A Peterson's Pacific Northwest Insects
Trudell & Ammirati's Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest