October 29-30, 2023

 High of 53 and sunny. 

We sent to Forks to shop. Forks is where the Twilight books took place.  Vampire wine, And bigfoot.  We are now in La Push on the Olympic coast on the Quileute reservation. The beach is at our door step. It has large portions of the beach as pebbles. The bus at Oceanside resort and RV park. 

Totem pole at the office. Big waves on the beach today in our front yard.

John in the roots of a really big driftwood tree. The small black pebble beach. 

Sunset was lovely from our front yard.

I finished this basket. It is made from natural and dyed pine needles, polyester thread, glass and clay beads John got in Chile years ago. The center is  a piece of selenite that I found outside death valley that I shaped, sandblasted and painted petroglyph sheep being chased by a coyote. It is 10 x 8 x  2 inches. High of 58 and sunny. The marina in La Push. 

Two totem poles in La Push, the first on is for the coast guard and the second is at the marina, with a whale on it. They were loading up huge tubs of big black cod. We went back to Forks to get Halloween candy and saw this guy hiking across America. He said when he gets to La Push he will be done. He started in August 2021. sign in the bus station/rest area 'anything left here will be destroyed by the city of Forks'. This is Rialto beach. I loved it last time we hiked it, but you have to hike it at lower tides. The trail is the beach of small black pebbles and at high tide which you see here the waves go into the huge lots and roll them around. Not safe, we will wait till later in the week when the tides are later. The hike goes to the point in the distance to the sea stacks, on is called Hole in the Rock because hit has an arch in it, which at low tides you can walk through.

We hiked to Second beach instead. We are camped on first beach, which is in town. The trees here are mostly Sitka spruce instead of the red cedar and douglas fir farther inland. This area gets 12 feet of rain a year. 

John on the steps down the cliff to the beach. People put rocks and shells they picked up on the beach in these roots.

First view of the sea stacks through the trees. Sea stacks off the beach.

Cool shrubs and rocks. Three young ladies were coming back with their surf boards. They told John low tide is better for surfing and it is high tide now. It is at least a mile to the road from here, long way to carry them. 

More sea stacks. We can see all these from a distance from camp. A small stream on the beach.

Waterfall from the small stream with a Halloween tree overlooking. John at lunch. 

Fall leaf on the beach, beach art, sea gull foot prints in the sand, my feet in the surf. Not sure why the camera over exposed them, but they are not that white and an amanita mushroom. John starting up the trail to head back. 

I was working at the picnic table and looked up and the setting sun was shining though a hole in a log on the beach. There was a thin layer of clouds on the horizon that turned bright pink in the sunset.