Saturday, September 27, 2008 - a beautiful day in Washington. As the picture above illustrates, today we visited the Olympic National Forest. Our explorations took us into the Quinault Rain Forest, where we observed some of the largest Douglas Fir trees, Cedar trees, etc. in the world. This forest is truly amazing. Although it does not offer the same scenic views one sees in such places as Glacier, or Yellowstone National Parks, the sights here are equally impressive. It's difficult to describe the thickness of vegetation in a rain forest, and even more difficult to photograph, because of the minimal amount of light coming through to the floor of the forest. In the photographs we put in the web album, the light is good, but you really can't see the thickness of the flora, because, where there is light, there are few plants. We did try to photograph these thick growths, but the photos, even with a flash, came out too dark to be able to tell what you are looking at, so we left them out. We only left in the ones where you can tell what you are looking at.
The last photograph in the album is of Quinault Lake, at the edge of the rain forest. This is a beautiful lake, and we took the picture from the edge of the lake, where there is a campground, but we couldn't get our motor home into this one - they only accomodate motor homes shorter than 34'. Too bad, because this is a beautiful spot, and in a fabulous location for exploring the rain forests (there are 3 different rain forests in the park, but we only visited the Quinault; the others are the "Queets Rain Forest" and the "Hoh Rain Forest").
Tomorrow, we are heading over to visit Mt. Rainier National Park (again). We visited Rainier several years ago, when I was out here on business, and Kathy came out on a Friday and we spent the weekend just touring the area. It was at that time that we promised ourselves that we would return here one day and spend more time enjoying all of the sights here. This is such a beautiful part of the USA, that it should be on everyone's "Must Visit" list. From Mt. Rainier, we will drive south to Portland, OR and Canby, OR. Canby is where Joey Dyer and his family live, and we will drop in to visit them before we head down to Crater Lake.
Stay tuned for tomorrow's journal on Mt. Rainier, should be some good pictures to share. Here's your link to today's web album:
Love and hugs to everyone from Chuck & Kathy
http://picasaweb.google.com/cbenoitiii/TheTripOlympicNationalParkDay26?authkey=YvP_rfe5srM#
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