DFT - Olympic NP
We arrived in Olympic on Thursday. Let's start by saying its a strange park. It is absolutely huge! The official park visitors center is not in the park...it's in the town before you get to the park. You better know where you are going or you will miss it or you might end up walking into the administration offices...not that we did that or anything.
We actually missed the visitors center on our way in and drove on to our campsite. They were really nice and let us check in two hours early. We had the best campsite in the lot and it was right on Lake Crescent. As we left the campsite we took a wrong turn and started driving towards Canada (not that we would have made it because we would have had to cross a huge body of water, but that was the direction we were going) at this point the only thing to do was drive back to Port Angeles and find the visitors center. It took us a turn or two before we actually made it to the right place and we finally got a map of the park.
On Thursday we spent the afternoon in the area of the park called Sul Duc. We hiked to Sul Duc Falls and then around a trail called Lover's Lane. We were suppose to go the the Sul Duc Hot Springs that night, but it was pretty small and pretty crowded so we decided against it.
Friday we got up and drove through Forks, WA (I kinda made a big deal about being in Fork, just because I knew Daniel thought it was dumb), but we had to drive through Forks to get to the Hoh Rain Forest. We hiked 3 miles in and 3 miles out of the Rain Forest that morning and then drove over the Rialto Beach. We wanted to do a hike called Hole in the Wall, but it couldn't be done unless it was low tide, so we had to be there by 3pm. We hiked 1.5 miles along the beach...and so all kinds of cool stuff. I got to take pictures of seals in the ocean. Thank goodness I had the zoom lens! Plus we walked through some tide pools and saw all kinds of cool sea life. The best were the 4 different star fish! The beach there was kinda weird. Instead of shells it has tons of rocks. The sand is made up of all kinds of different tiny pebbles. Plus the ocean is really cold.
Olympic might be at the top of the list for coolest parks visited to date....I still have Sequoia number one!
We did both rock out our TN gear of Friday in honor of Pat Summit!
We actually missed the visitors center on our way in and drove on to our campsite. They were really nice and let us check in two hours early. We had the best campsite in the lot and it was right on Lake Crescent. As we left the campsite we took a wrong turn and started driving towards Canada (not that we would have made it because we would have had to cross a huge body of water, but that was the direction we were going) at this point the only thing to do was drive back to Port Angeles and find the visitors center. It took us a turn or two before we actually made it to the right place and we finally got a map of the park.
On Thursday we spent the afternoon in the area of the park called Sul Duc. We hiked to Sul Duc Falls and then around a trail called Lover's Lane. We were suppose to go the the Sul Duc Hot Springs that night, but it was pretty small and pretty crowded so we decided against it.
Friday we got up and drove through Forks, WA (I kinda made a big deal about being in Fork, just because I knew Daniel thought it was dumb), but we had to drive through Forks to get to the Hoh Rain Forest. We hiked 3 miles in and 3 miles out of the Rain Forest that morning and then drove over the Rialto Beach. We wanted to do a hike called Hole in the Wall, but it couldn't be done unless it was low tide, so we had to be there by 3pm. We hiked 1.5 miles along the beach...and so all kinds of cool stuff. I got to take pictures of seals in the ocean. Thank goodness I had the zoom lens! Plus we walked through some tide pools and saw all kinds of cool sea life. The best were the 4 different star fish! The beach there was kinda weird. Instead of shells it has tons of rocks. The sand is made up of all kinds of different tiny pebbles. Plus the ocean is really cold.
Olympic might be at the top of the list for coolest parks visited to date....I still have Sequoia number one!
We did both rock out our TN gear of Friday in honor of Pat Summit!
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