More One thing Steelquist cannot hide is the deep pride he has for the Pacific Coast. You can see it and read it and learn more about it in his colorful book: “The Northwest Coastal Explorer;” a natural history guide to the places, plants and animals of the Pacific Coast. Steelquist said his book was a project that prodded and pulled on him for years. “I was pretty much running up and down this coastline, from California to Vancouver Island for 14 months with cameras just so I could illustrate the ideas that I wrote about. The weather was not always kind to me either. It really forced me to recognize the importance of rain to the coast because that’s what I was able to capture most of the time.”