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D&D Travel - the Olympic Peninsula & Rainforests of Washington State - Part 2 of 3 Welcome to our continuing tour of Washington State and the Olympic Peninsula - home to Olympic National Park and the rainforests of the Pacific Northwest...The next 20 images will give you just a taste of what the area has to offer! [home]
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Above and next 3 images below - Lake Crescent, just west of Port Angeles...The peninsula is an easy 30-minute ferry ride from Edmonds, WA to Kingston. |
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Salmon Cascades - tumbling toward the Sol Duc River, along the road to Sol Duc Hot Springs |
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Above and next two below: Ruby Beach, on the Pacific Coast off Highway 101, is a driftwood lovers' paradise and NOT to be missed on any tour of the area!
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Above and below: Just some of the amazing colors in the forest |
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All manner of moss, fungi and lichen call the forest home...This moss is just beginning to take hold on a recently-fallen log |
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The Big Cedar Tree - a Western Red Cedar - in all its gnarled splendor, split in two during a 2014 storm. It was almost 20 feet in diameter and 174 feet tall... Appears to be directly out of a Harry Potter movie! |
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Above and below: The Quinault River, seen from our lodge in Amanda Park - the Quinault River Inn. The river flows from the rainforests directly to the Pacific Ocean... |
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Above and below: Sunset on Lake Quinault - formed by the Quinault River - as seen from the grounds of Lake Quinault Lodge in Olympic National Park |
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Merriman Falls, along South Shore Road bordering Lake Quinault...About 50 feet tall, it flows as part of Finley Creek, tumbling toward Lake Quniault. |
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"Morgan the Mossquatch" - near Merriman Falls, by local artist Jason MacDonald. He even sports a Facebook page! |
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Above and below: Deep-green moss covered trees fill the Quinault Rainforest - these bordering the North shore of Lake Quinault. |
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Old growth forest - home of giant trees such as Douglas Fir, Western Hemlock, Western Red Cedar, Grand Fir and Sitka Spruce - fill the lowlands of the Quinault Rainforest. Usually, these forests have the following characteristics:
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Finally, a look at wildflowers growing amidst driftwood piled along the north shore of Lake Quinault, at the edge of Quinault Rainforest...
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Thanks for visiting! For a look at Part 3 of this series - Mount Rainier and North Cascades National Park - please click here! all images on these 3 pages are © copyright 2015, Dennis A. Hubbs/D&D Travel Services, LLC
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