October 3 2013 Olympic National Park area

The government is still shut down, so we had to make the best that we could to sight see. Amazing sunny day after all the rain.

Joyce is a tiny town outside the park. It has a historic general store and post office with beaded ceilings and oiled floors and it looks much like it did 100 years ago. Crescent Lake is in the northern part of the national park. It is glacially carved and 650 feet deep, 100 feet below sea level on the lake floor. The water is very clear. The highway runs through the park, and it wasn’t closed.

The valley walls rise steeply around the lake. The historic Storm King ranger station, which was closed had the dampness rising off it in steam when the sun hit it.

We were outlaws and went behind the sign and hiked to Marymere falls. It was a mossy dark forest. We are getting closer to the rainest rain forests now. 

John on the trail. Ferns growing on a moss covered tree trunk.

Near the end the falls was stairs and cliff. Marymere falls. A 90 foot fall.

At Clallam Bay spit county park this part of the beach was gravel rather than sand, with agates. That is Vancouver island in Canada across the strait, with a cloud cover. Sea gulls scared up on the  spit.

Sekiu had Gil and Rosie fish as mascots.  Sekiu is a fishing village and the coast back to Salt Creek was logging, and tree farms. A working forest they call it..