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Beach, rainforest, pine trees, mountains, elk, smores, campfires, hotdogs, hamburgers, cold, fog, driftwood, beautiful sunsets, camping on a bluff overlooking the ocean….Olympic peninsula has it all.  We’re coming off 3 days of camping at Kalaloch, a national park campround, in a coastal rainforest on a bluff overlooking the ocean.  Doesn’t get much better.  The beach was really cool in that there were thousands of huge logs all piled up against the bluff that you had to climb over to get to the beach – apparently that come down river during the snowmelts or get away from the loggers and get washed up on the beach.  Lots of fun climbing and great fuel for fires which Joe took great delight in building everyday.  Zoey just loved wandering the beach collecting rocks and clam shells and sand dollars and getting her feet wet in the surf and in the fresh water river that dumped into the ocean right down the beach.  The beach was shrouded in fog one of the days which was really neat to walk in – kind of eerie but great fun.  And our campsite looked right down to the ocean – we could sit by our fire and stare at the waves.



One day we drove into the Hoh rainforest and went hiking but I think our campground was as beautiful.  It wasn’t raining and wet so we didn’t get the full effect and the giant slugs weren’t out, much to Zoey’s dismay, but we did get to see a couple of elk thanks to other hikers.  Zoey doesn’t quite know how to be quiet while hiking so all wildlife knows we’re coming a mile away.



We also made a trek into Forks, Washingtn, to pick up a hatchet so I can now say I’ve been to the town where the Twilight series was set.  It was sunny there too so all the vampires were in hiding. Not that I’m complaining, camping at the coast was cold enough that I was grateful there was no rain.  Not cold enough to keep Joe from jumping in the freshwater river and freezing afterwards.  Joe says it’s a guy thing.  I’ll never understand.



Now we’re headed back inland to hook up with Joe’s dad who’s flying up from Austin today and we’ll visit all his family over the next week in Wenatchee and Tonasket.