Rainforests

Olympic National Park is known for its temperate rainforests

which gets about 150 inches of rain annually.

 A temperate rainforest is dominated by conifer trees unlike a tropical rainforest.

 Ferns dominate the forest floor.

And moss covers everything.

 Manmade objects slowly get covered by the vegatation.

 And the trees tower over everything.

In the rainforest, everything is green.

Walking among Waterfalls

Olympic National Park is huge and has several distinct ecosystems, mountains, coasts, rain forests & lowland forests.

Today we explored the lowland forests with its many waterfalls.

This is Marymere Falls, a short hike from our cabin.  

And this is Sol Duc Falls.

We also hiked the Spruce Railroad Trail along the north shore of Lake Crescent.

The end of another fun day.

Olympic National Park

We have arrived at the Olympic National Park and the first order of business was hiking Hullicane Ridge.

We hiked to Sunrise Point and could see for miles.

We could see Mt. Olympus covered in glaciers beyond the visitor center.

We continued on highway 101 to Lake Crescent Lodge.  This is our home for the next few days.

The view from our cabin.

The sun setting on Lake Crescent.