Washington Coast

Don’t worry about today...for your life, what you will wear...Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin, and yet even Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these. If God so clothe the grass of the field, which is here today, and cast in the oven tomorrow, how much more will he clothe you! (Matthew 6:25-30)

We started up the Washington Coast to the Olympic National Park, thinking to visit just one Rain Forest...the Quinault.

Following the Quinault River, we caught a glimpse of the Olympic Mountains.

There is privately owned land on the south side of the river in the National Forest....had to get a picture of this old truck with its sign, “Rust in Piece.” on’t know if the misspelling of peace was intentional or not.

We were on gravel road most of the way through this rain forest...no rain, just dry and dusty.

Looked this one up...think its a female ruffled grouse, red morph....woohoo, 5 names!

New trees from old

We took a hike to see the Big Quinault Cedar

Want to come? Follow this trail.

Big roots, watch your step.

Nope, this isn’t it....looks pretty big to me, though.

It’s hard to show you how high these steps are....let’s just hope your legs are longer than mine.

We found it!

After driving the loop, we stayed in a National Forest campground. Bandit liked this big stump at our site.

Joselyn decided she hadn’t seen enough, so in the morning we drove north along the WA coast to the Hoh Rain Forest. But before we left the Quinault we took another short hike to see the “World’s Largest Spruce Tree.”

It was pretty big.

Along the way we learned about the drift logs that litter the beaches,

And got another glimpse of the snow-capped Olympic Mountains.

Entering the Hoh Rain forest.

At the Visitor Center, Joselyn hiked the Hall of Mosses Trail that I had done my last visit here.

So I stayed with the pets and did housekeeping chores....used the dump station, washed road dust off the outside of the windows, dog slobber off the inside.

Next we visited Ruby Beach and the Sea Stacks

You have to climb over those drift logs.

Then we camped in one of the beach National Park campgrounds.

Pacific Sunset