October 10, 2015 Port Angeles, Washington

 

When we pulled into the Sol Duc RV park we were the only ones for a day, then it filled up. The place is much too small for 18 RV’s. We had to squeeze between trucks parked willy nilly, a big pile of dirt and big logs between sites, but got out. It poured rain all night and day. Rain over Lake Crescent, low hanging clouds.

 

Fog in the trees. In Port Angeles we went to the Crab Festival. I was also pouring rain there too. There were a bunch of regular festival booths that have nothing to do with crab, like face painting, arts and crafts, different causes, etc and a few activities that had to do with crab.  The street was closed down and the booths spilled out onto the pier.

There was a huge tent with a crab feed  with long lines. It was $29 each to feed. We decided we did better with the free crab we scored on the beach in Oregon and passed. There was also the Crab Derby. It looked fun. You pay $5 and try to hook the crabs, you could keep all you caught. We didn’t see anyone catch any. The Crab Count Challenge, guess how many and win an ipad, and the Public Crab.

I of course had to try on the crab hats and the hat booth. . . Fishing boats in the Port Angeles harbor.

We also went to the Visitors center for Olympic National Park. This big relief map is the Olympic Peninsula.  The mountains go up to almost 6,000 feet. The white stuff in the middle are glaciers. Everything on the west in temperate rain forest and beach. The rainforest gets up to 14 feet of rain a year. We are now on the north east corner, it is slightly drier.  See the weather report for today, rain, 1-3 inches possible.

John in front of the Epilog in the visitors center. It is  a slice of a 650 year old tree. The lower portion shows some of the labels on it. 1349 when it sprouted, 1492 Columbus discovers the new world.