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Forks Me!
... then they get a rain shadow on the east coast. That creates these lush rainforest with hanging moss in the Hall of Mosses hike that we did. We also noticed the nurse logs. With such shallow roots because of good rain, the trees fall down quite easily and become nurseries for new trees and plants. When these logs eventually decay there is a hole left at the base of the tree! Interesting to see and understand.
We had one more stop before camp and that ...
Day 3 - Travel to Kalaloch
Stephanie writing today....
At 9:00am we checked out of the cabin in Sequim and left the spiders behind, for a spit called, Dungeness Spit. A spit is a long stretch of sand and logs jutting out into the ocean with one side rough and the other side calm. The Dungeness spit is almost 10 miles long! We did not hike the whole thing, though …
So Long Seattle, Konnichiwa Kalaloch
... 8217;re their first customers of the day. We each grab a cup of cioppino and split a crab cocktail. We eat our cioppino in complete silence, savoring each bite, sitting along a metal bar, watching the fisherman/sellers try to entice people passing by and imagining that we could eat so much more fish and clams and oysters and lobster, if we only had jobs. But then again, if we had jobs, we wouldn’t be sitting here, enjoying ...
A-Hiking we will go!
... types of vegetation, trees and mosses. The trail was at times covered with tree roots, rocks and muddy patches and we had to watch our footing, particularly as at several points the trail was smothered in lots of tiny, tiny frogs! We originally mistook them for spiders jumping in the grass but they were tiny froglets, and some were nowhere near water.
The hike made us ...
Windswept and dramatic Washington Coast
... and protecting wildlife. We pulled off at a picnic area at July Creek and were faintly alarmed to see a notice warning of cougar activity but decided to d walk a little way through the forest on one of the marked trails. Imagine our surprise to disturb a garter snake just inches off the pathway but he hurriedly decided he did not like the look of us!
Walking further towards the lakeshore we stumbled upon a small ...