It's cold and drizzly. Glad our camper is an easy one to keep the floor clean! Our first stop of the day was at Marymere Falls. You walk through a tunnel under the highway to get there. Pretty awesome! The dampness really brings out the colors. You walk through beautiful lowland forest growth to the waterfalls. Ferns everywhere!
We can go no further north or west now. We're here.
We make a stop at Rialto Beach. It is beautiful but it is fogged in. Because of the rain we skip the trails around it. Decided it would be a good day to go hike in the rain forest so we head down the road to the Hoh Rainforest. By the way, for all of you Twilight fans, we drive through Forks. There are "Twilight" tour buses everywhere and vampire warnings.........
The Hoh rain forest is a temperate rain forest, where spruce and hemlock trees soar to heights of 200'. On our hike we saw big leaf maples that were so densely covered with mosses that they looked prehistoric. This area receives 140" on average of rainfall. Found a perfect campsite at the Hoh campground. Off our back porch about 30' is the Hoh River, roaring and splashing. And cold! We should be seeing elk normally, according to our neighbor, but guess it hasn't been cold enough for them to come down. Heck.
Have you ever cooked dinner in a rain forest with a rushing river right outside your window? (I really do like my rear kitchen with the big window. And the big awning on the back when it's dripping all around you.)
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| Mary at Marymere Falls |
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| Lake Crescent |
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| Marymere Falls hike |
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| Rialto Beach |
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| Rialto Beach, Olympic NP |
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| Rialto Beach |
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| Rain Forest Cedar |
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| View from the back porch at Hoh Campground |
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| It is a rain forest, what else would you expect? |
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| Prehistoric...... |
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| Hoh Rain Forest |
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| Nurse log in the rain forest |
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