Vacation - Days Three and Four - Forests and Beaches

On Tuesday, we left Port Angeles and drove farther into the Olympic National Park. We went on a hike to Sol Duc Falls. Lots of moss here.

The standard photo of these falls, with both the bridge and the falls in it, is pretty impossible to achieve. Unless using a drone? Here's the bridge:

Here are the falls:

After our hike we ate the custom made sandwiches that we brought along from the Safeway in Port Angeles. J and I went into the Sol Duc Hot Springs. The boys were repelled by the strong sulfur smell so they didn't get into the pool. They stayed on the benches. It was quite hot and sunny at this point. The pool water was very hot.

We then drove to the town of Forks. C and J went into the Forks Timber Museum. I went into the Forks Visitor Center.  It is Twilight central! That's a vampire book series and movie, if you were wondering, which is set in Forks. Here is Bella's truck.

We did a short hike at the Hoh Rain Forest called the Hall of Mosses. My boys love to climb up onto logs or trees.

The moss covered trees are pretty amazing.

We had dinner at the Hard Rain Cafe. We all had burgers - mine was salmon. We had wild blackberries for dessert since the one and only ice cream place in Forks was closed at 8 pm. We stayed at the Olympic Suites in Forks. We had our own bedrooms and a living room and kitchen. We were able to cook our own breakfast there.

The next day we went to 2nd Beach near La Push. Yes, 2nd Beach is really the name. There is a 2 mile hike to get to the beach. It is an amazing place. There was quite a lot of fog so my photos aren't that great.

2nd Beach is one of my all time favourite places.

We enjoyed looking for sea life in the tide pools.

J and the boys had fun feeding crabs to anemone. Here's a collage of the sea life we observed.

Here is J on top of a boulder.

We had Subway for lunch. We drove down the west coast of Washington and stopped at Ruby Beach. What is unique about this beach is the rounded rocks.

I would've liked to stay longer there, collecting rocks, but A had some tummy trouble. Our next short stop was at Kalaloch. Here is J by the "Tree of Life"on the beach. It is also known as the tree cave. It is a tree that survives without any soil.

Our next destination was Lake Quinault Lodge. What a gorgeous place.

My husband says that his highlight of our vacation was the time we spent here, enjoying the view.

We could have had dinner at Lake Quinault Lodge but I got a tip that the food was a better value at the Salmon House just up the road. My salmon with dill sauce was delicious. We did have quite a long wait for our food. A had salmon, of course.

We drove to Ocean Shores. We stopped in the tiny town of Humptulips (yes, really the name) to buy a phone charger since our cell phones were both dead since we left a charger behind in Port Angeles.



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