June 13, 2013
Today we began exploring Olympic National Park. It will take a couple of days to see even a small portion of the park. Olympic National Park spans an area that includes the isolated glacier covered Olympic Mountains, coastal beaches and a rain forest with over 12 FEET of rain a year. Lakes, rivers, waterfalls, wildlife, old growth forests, alpine meadows, glaciers, rugged peaks, coastal rock formations, tide pools and hiking trails are just some of the highlights of Olympic National Park. Roosevelt declared 648,000 acres of the Olympic Peninsula a national park in 1938. Today we explored just a very small segment of the park.
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| Madison Fall, Olympic National Park |
We drove up a beautiful 17 mile windy road to an area called Hurricane Ridge for an expansive (but somewhat cloudy) view of the snow capped mountains of the Olympic mountain range. While we were enjoying the view of the mountains, these black-tailed deer were grazing in the open meadow and were completely unconcerned with our presence there. It was a cool 40 degrees. In the afternoon the clouds cleared and we have a great view of the mountains out of the front windshield of our motorhome in the RV park we're staying in. Tomorrow we're driving to the west side of the mountains to the Hoh Rain forest.
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| Olympic National Park wildlife |
As many times as I've visited my sister in Oregon, I've never been to this park! (She's been there since 1967!) I'm sure she has, though! Awesome deer picture again the clouds and snow on the mountains! (I will have to work on my superlatives - you take remarkable pictures!)
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