We went to the Olympic National Forest for our vacation this summer. In putting the pictures on the blog they are all kind of mixed up, so hopefully I can make sense out of them. We took over 500 pictures (thanks to digital!) so again here are only a few. I hope you enjoy them. We sure had fun. I love that area it is so beautiful and peaceful.
Christina found a snail on the beach of the pacific ocean. This is a fun wave.
More of the beaches as we drove along Highway 101 along the pacific coast. Just beautiful. A foggy day today.
This is a tree on the trail to the 2nd Beach. We just thought it was cool looking. Trees grow strangly up here. The seeds drop and they start growing on each other!
A Huge cedar pine tree. Over 200 feet high
This is at the Hoh Rain Forest. Christina had fun climbing some trees and getting into the nooks and crannies of the trees. We didn't have any rain the whole 10 days we were there. The forest was in fact very dry. It rains over 200 inches a year there. Compare that to the 10-14 inches of rain we get here each year!
Bob and Sandra standing between two trees that fell and now make a nice part of the trail to follow through the rain forest.
As Christina would say, "The two love birds." The forest is so pretty.
Moss hanging from the trees in the Hoh Rain Forest.
One of many water falls we saw. Sol Duc Falls.
We were able to see some beautiful tide pools at the beach we camped at on the Strait of Jaun de Fuca. This is a huge star fish. They were all over. Orange or purple like this one.
This is an octopus! We were able to see two of them!
A Sea star and other sea creatures.
It was absolutely a great walk on the rocks. We were there for an hour and a half in the morning finding all these wonderful sea creatures.
This is at Hurricane ridge. We are looking in the binoculars at Port Angeles and over the Strait of Jaun de Fuca to the island of Vancouver, Cananda.
This is part of the trail up to Hurricane Hill.
Behind Bob and Christina besides the beautiful mountains there is a deer grazing in the field. We saw deer all over the place. PLUS a bear and a cub, a deer and twin fawns, a huge marmet, chipmunks, flowers, so much wildlife to see up here!
This is Madison Falls.
A bald eagle in a tree on the beach we stopped at.
We went to the Olympic Animal Farm. This is where they train animals for movies. We could throw them bread. When I raised my hand up to throw him the bread, he stood up. They would sit, smile, wave, reach. It was so cool!
This is one of the black bears there. There were also a rhinouserus, zebra, llama, Yaks, eagles, peacocks, cougar, lions (the male lion jumped at us, awesome!), fallow deer, buffalo, wolfs, bobcats, elk, ground hogs, and more! So much better than a zoo. (but zoos are fine, too)
This is at Cape Flattery. It is the most nothern and western part of the US. This is a view of the Pacific ocean. The other way you can see the Strait of Jaun de Fuca and Canada. We followed a beautiful trail about a mile to get here. It is on an Indian reservation. Lots of reservations along the coast here.
Christina is walking in the Strait of Jaun de Fuca ( oh, just incase any one doesn't know the Strait is the water that seperates Washington and Canada and then goes down to Seattle) The dark strip of land (in front of the horizon) that you can barely see that goes out from the trees that is covered by water is the place we walked the tide pools and found all those cool sea creatures!
This is Marymere Falls. It is by Lake Cresent. I use to go swimming is Lake Cresent as a child.
The shore line in the back ground is Port Angeles, Washington. We are leaving on the ferry Victoria Express to go visit Victoria, Canada. It took about one hour to cross the Strait. We were really fortunate to be able to see 5 huge ships in Port Angeles. The two ships below are "sister ships". We also saw two "sister oil tanker ships". It was quite a sight. The captain of the ferry says it is really rare to see this many ships in the port at one time.
We didn't even have to go on a whale watching tour and we got to see a whale. It was awesome! The captain even slowed the ferry down and turned the boat so we could get a better view. We couldn't have gone at a better time, we got to see ships and whales. That rarely happens!
This is entering the port at Victoria, Canada. We had to go through customs and show our passports in Canada and then when we came back to the USA.
This is part of the port of Victoria.
This is a beautiful hotel that is on their sight seeing route. It is cool because of all the ivy growing on the building and the two fun shaped trees/bushes there in front.
This is the Parliament building.
This is a castle we toured through. It is four stories high. It has been restored to look like the original home inside. After being a home it was sold and used as a shool academy for many years. Now it is pretty much a museum.
This is the Columbia River Washington Temple. Bob and I attended a session there. It is beautiful. A small one. Very similar to the Palmyra Temple.
This is Snoqualmie Falls east of Seattle. We just stopped to stretch our legs here on our way to Sequim, Washington. I hope you enjoyed your tour of the Olympic National Forest.
Christina found a snail on the beach of the pacific ocean. This is a fun wave.
More of the beaches as we drove along Highway 101 along the pacific coast. Just beautiful. A foggy day today.
This is a tree on the trail to the 2nd Beach. We just thought it was cool looking. Trees grow strangly up here. The seeds drop and they start growing on each other!
A Huge cedar pine tree. Over 200 feet high
This is at the Hoh Rain Forest. Christina had fun climbing some trees and getting into the nooks and crannies of the trees. We didn't have any rain the whole 10 days we were there. The forest was in fact very dry. It rains over 200 inches a year there. Compare that to the 10-14 inches of rain we get here each year!
Bob and Sandra standing between two trees that fell and now make a nice part of the trail to follow through the rain forest.
As Christina would say, "The two love birds." The forest is so pretty.
Moss hanging from the trees in the Hoh Rain Forest.
One of many water falls we saw. Sol Duc Falls.
We were able to see some beautiful tide pools at the beach we camped at on the Strait of Jaun de Fuca. This is a huge star fish. They were all over. Orange or purple like this one.
This is an octopus! We were able to see two of them!
A Sea star and other sea creatures.
It was absolutely a great walk on the rocks. We were there for an hour and a half in the morning finding all these wonderful sea creatures.
This is at Hurricane ridge. We are looking in the binoculars at Port Angeles and over the Strait of Jaun de Fuca to the island of Vancouver, Cananda.
This is part of the trail up to Hurricane Hill.
Behind Bob and Christina besides the beautiful mountains there is a deer grazing in the field. We saw deer all over the place. PLUS a bear and a cub, a deer and twin fawns, a huge marmet, chipmunks, flowers, so much wildlife to see up here!
This is Madison Falls.
A bald eagle in a tree on the beach we stopped at.
We went to the Olympic Animal Farm. This is where they train animals for movies. We could throw them bread. When I raised my hand up to throw him the bread, he stood up. They would sit, smile, wave, reach. It was so cool!
This is one of the black bears there. There were also a rhinouserus, zebra, llama, Yaks, eagles, peacocks, cougar, lions (the male lion jumped at us, awesome!), fallow deer, buffalo, wolfs, bobcats, elk, ground hogs, and more! So much better than a zoo. (but zoos are fine, too)
This is at Cape Flattery. It is the most nothern and western part of the US. This is a view of the Pacific ocean. The other way you can see the Strait of Jaun de Fuca and Canada. We followed a beautiful trail about a mile to get here. It is on an Indian reservation. Lots of reservations along the coast here.
Christina is walking in the Strait of Jaun de Fuca ( oh, just incase any one doesn't know the Strait is the water that seperates Washington and Canada and then goes down to Seattle) The dark strip of land (in front of the horizon) that you can barely see that goes out from the trees that is covered by water is the place we walked the tide pools and found all those cool sea creatures!
This is Marymere Falls. It is by Lake Cresent. I use to go swimming is Lake Cresent as a child.
The shore line in the back ground is Port Angeles, Washington. We are leaving on the ferry Victoria Express to go visit Victoria, Canada. It took about one hour to cross the Strait. We were really fortunate to be able to see 5 huge ships in Port Angeles. The two ships below are "sister ships". We also saw two "sister oil tanker ships". It was quite a sight. The captain of the ferry says it is really rare to see this many ships in the port at one time.
We didn't even have to go on a whale watching tour and we got to see a whale. It was awesome! The captain even slowed the ferry down and turned the boat so we could get a better view. We couldn't have gone at a better time, we got to see ships and whales. That rarely happens!
This is entering the port at Victoria, Canada. We had to go through customs and show our passports in Canada and then when we came back to the USA.
This is part of the port of Victoria.
This is a beautiful hotel that is on their sight seeing route. It is cool because of all the ivy growing on the building and the two fun shaped trees/bushes there in front.
This is the Parliament building.
This is a castle we toured through. It is four stories high. It has been restored to look like the original home inside. After being a home it was sold and used as a shool academy for many years. Now it is pretty much a museum.
This is the Columbia River Washington Temple. Bob and I attended a session there. It is beautiful. A small one. Very similar to the Palmyra Temple.
This is Snoqualmie Falls east of Seattle. We just stopped to stretch our legs here on our way to Sequim, Washington. I hope you enjoyed your tour of the Olympic National Forest.
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What a beautiful trip. I think it will go on my list for some where to travel too.
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