Sol Duc Hot Springs Resort
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Sol Duc Hot Springs, Olympic State Park
July 1st. Arrived at the Olympic National Forest where they explained there is full hook up camping within the Sol Duc Hot Springs Resort. So on in we went for 12 miles before arriving at Sol Duc. Crescent Lake is a lake within the National Forest and is one of the pristine lakes of the world! the color of the water is almost not to be believed! …
Grand Valley Adventure
... had spotted a creature scurrying across the road in front of us. Once we got closer, we had an amazingly close look at the endemic Olympic Marmot! An animal that looks like a hybrid of a beaver and a guinea pig. It was incredibly brave and seemed almost undisturbed by our car's close proximity to its burrow. However, our great luck had to come to an end because before maybe 20 seconds of observing the marmot, another car pulled up behind us and pushed us forward toward ...
Washington, the Evergreen State
... einen kleinen beheizten Pool. Wir werden zwei Nächte hier verbringen.
Forks ist übrigens nicht nur Ausgangsbasis zur Erkundung des Nationalparks, sondern seit kurzem auch "Twilight City", d.h. die beliebten Teenie-Vampir-Filme der Twilight-Trilogie spielen nicht nur hier, sondern wurden auch hier gedreht. An allen Ecken gibt es Geschäftemacherei mit Twilight, sogar die ortsansässigen Restaurants haben ihre Speisekarte demensprechend angepasst und bieten ...
Vampires, rain forest, and beaches in Washington?
... able to be kids and enjoy the great outdoors and of course allowed some good daughter, son, and father time. Everyone finished dinner and we wound up watching some movies on our portable DVD players before we turned in early for the night. With no TV’s or phones, the lodge made you focus on enjoying those around you and I thank them for that. With an early night’s sleep we should be ready to explore our next day’s stop at Hurricane ...
Chilly Camping
We left Seattle after lunch and headed north west to Olympic National Park. As we drove we marvelled at the amazingly dense forest lining the highways. In the distance there were snow capped mountains - all very beautiful. We were planning to stay only 20minutes inland from the coast so didn't think it would be too cold...how wrong we were! As we turned off the main highway it was a very steep 20min climb up a hill. Totally unplanned but our camping over the next week ...