Olympic NP 0786
I was not enamoured with Olympic NP although, had I had a month, I could easily have fallen in love with the Olympic peninsula.
In rather mundane terms, the peninsular as been defined in this way: "The Olympic Peninsula is a large arm of land in western Washington that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle, and contains Olympic National Park. It is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, the north by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the east by Hood Canal. Cape Alava, the westernmost point in the contiguous United States, and Cape Flattery, the northwesternmost point, are on the peninsula. Comprising about 3,600 square miles (9,300 km), the Olympic Peninsula contained many of the last unexplored places in the contiguous United States. It remained largely unmapped until Arthur Dodwell and Theodore Rixon mapped most of its topography and timber resources between 1898 and 1900. This was of course well over a century after Lewis, Clark, and Sacagawea explored what was to be The Oregon Trail, Oregon, Idaho, and the Pacific coast north of California.
Anyway, it's diverse. There are more rivers running through it than be imagined. In our time there, it turns out I took more shots of the rainforest (Hoh) than the any other "attractions," save the Pacific coast.
It wasn't until I downloaded the card that I realized how many vignettes like this that I took. Tree stumps, moss hanging from trees, mushrooms, and flowers are the staple of the rainforest. The absolute peace and quiet was amazing, and we saw not one other human. So, it has that going for it, too.
Olympic NP 0786
I was not enamoured with Olympic NP although, had I had a month, I could easily have fallen in love with the Olympic peninsula.
In rather mundane terms, the peninsular as been defined in this way: "The Olympic Peninsula is a large arm of land in western Washington that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle, and contains Olympic National Park. It is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, the north by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the east by Hood Canal. Cape Alava, the westernmost point in the contiguous United States, and Cape Flattery, the northwesternmost point, are on the peninsula. Comprising about 3,600 square miles (9,300 km), the Olympic Peninsula contained many of the last unexplored places in the contiguous United States. It remained largely unmapped until Arthur Dodwell and Theodore Rixon mapped most of its topography and timber resources between 1898 and 1900. This was of course well over a century after Lewis, Clark, and Sacagawea explored what was to be The Oregon Trail, Oregon, Idaho, and the Pacific coast north of California.
Anyway, it's diverse. There are more rivers running through it than be imagined. In our time there, it turns out I took more shots of the rainforest (Hoh) than the any other "attractions," save the Pacific coast.
It wasn't until I downloaded the card that I realized how many vignettes like this that I took. Tree stumps, moss hanging from trees, mushrooms, and flowers are the staple of the rainforest. The absolute peace and quiet was amazing, and we saw not one other human. So, it has that going for it, too.