Friday, September 4, 2009

Mt Olympics National Park (2009.07.26)

After spending a good night at a hostel in Port Angeles, we were up and kicking on Sunday morning as we hurriedly prepared our sandwiches for both breakfast and lunch in the kitchen. The best part of staying in a hostel is getting to meet and talk to various people under the same roof. There were an elderly and young couple from Canada, and a group of backpackers who just hiked from Montana all the way to Washington. They took a whole month to reach here, and will be taking off (by foot!) trekking Mt Olympics from East to West! My full admiration for them! *Applause*

Friendly hostel:

Bidding our kind host farewell, we stopped by Dungeness Spit, which is a long stretch of land off the coast of Port Angeles town. It was pretty early, around 9am. A couple was loading their yacht onto the pickup, several seagulls chirping as they flew and landed. Its all very peaceful and quiet. We could also see Port Angeles town from here.


At 9am, we began making our way to Hoh National Rainforest, which is about 70miles drive. We came across a big cedar tree on the way.

Slightly before noon, we reached Hoh rainforest.



We then proceeded to our last stop of the day - Marymere Falls.



It was time to go home. Traffic was pretty smooth, we reached the ferry terminal at Bainbridge Island around 7:30pm. We patiently waited in our car for the ferry, while other drivers walked around, chit chatted with one another to pass the time.


Came the ferry... arh... home sweet home, at last!

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Ahh... port angeles. I remember we were there when we tour seattle together. :)

Bee N Chee said...

Yes, if you notice, in my other post on Mt Olympics, we'd dined in the same Thai restaurant too. I remembered you guys took some dish with spicy level 4 which you finished it, and Susan was very impressed.

Seriously, other than this, I can't recall the other places we've been. :(