Tue Sept 9
We stay in Olympic NP but move to a southern location during the day. The circumnavigation of the park leads us to the Pacific Ocean and a truly spectacular place, Rialto Beach. Large piles of dritwood on the beach and towering spires of rock in the ocean make it very photogenic. Others find it inspiring musically.
We walked the 1.5 miles from the parking lot to the Hole-In-The-Wall where one of the spires is open. We arrived at the beach at low tide, and on the return we're forced to walk higher along the sand and shingle, making it pretty tiring. We were able to redirect one couple walking north looking for the parking lot that was at the south end of the beach.
On to Ruby Beach, also touted as a photogenic beach. After waiting for a busload of Asian tourists to use the single potty at the parking lot, we went down to the beach. Very similar to Rialto, but here a strange force has stacked up rocks just about everywhere. The flat shingle rocks are perfect for these messages to the gods.
Here again we were nearly trapped by the rising tide, but managed to cross a recent tidal flow across the beach without getting our socks wet. A good first day to be wearing hiking boots.
Other beaches had some interesting oddities.
Lake Quinault (kwin-alt) Lodge is recently renovated, so we've got TV and WiFi, but still no AC. Don't really need it as the low tonight will be in the 50s. The original lodge in 1926 similarly didn't have AC. The photos in the lobby didn't mention whether it had WiFi or not.
The back of the hotel has a rain gauge since this one of the rainiest spots in the continental US. Ann & Guy could use a similar gauge, and just change the scale from feet to inches.
(After praising the WiFi at Quinault, it died out later in the evening. That's why 9/8 got posted but 9/9 didn't. And on 9/10 we were lucky to have electricity, so nothing then. That's why I'm running so far behind.)
We stay in Olympic NP but move to a southern location during the day. The circumnavigation of the park leads us to the Pacific Ocean and a truly spectacular place, Rialto Beach. Large piles of dritwood on the beach and towering spires of rock in the ocean make it very photogenic. Others find it inspiring musically.
We walked the 1.5 miles from the parking lot to the Hole-In-The-Wall where one of the spires is open. We arrived at the beach at low tide, and on the return we're forced to walk higher along the sand and shingle, making it pretty tiring. We were able to redirect one couple walking north looking for the parking lot that was at the south end of the beach.
On to Ruby Beach, also touted as a photogenic beach. After waiting for a busload of Asian tourists to use the single potty at the parking lot, we went down to the beach. Very similar to Rialto, but here a strange force has stacked up rocks just about everywhere. The flat shingle rocks are perfect for these messages to the gods.
Here again we were nearly trapped by the rising tide, but managed to cross a recent tidal flow across the beach without getting our socks wet. A good first day to be wearing hiking boots.
Other beaches had some interesting oddities.
Lake Quinault (kwin-alt) Lodge is recently renovated, so we've got TV and WiFi, but still no AC. Don't really need it as the low tonight will be in the 50s. The original lodge in 1926 similarly didn't have AC. The photos in the lobby didn't mention whether it had WiFi or not.
The back of the hotel has a rain gauge since this one of the rainiest spots in the continental US. Ann & Guy could use a similar gauge, and just change the scale from feet to inches.
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