With Summer drawing to a close, for our last vacation trip before school begins, we headed back to the Neah Bay area, but this time with a focus on hiking and checking out the points of interest within the Olympic National Park system. This was a beautiful, scenic trip that allowed us to venture on foot through different trails.
Cape Flattery Trail
Our first visit we have frequented before was the Cape Flattery Trail, which overlooks the waters we fish in as we did in July. It's a short trail through the woods with certain platforms for you to take pictures. With the tripod in tow and my remote at the ready, I made a point of making sure I was able to get into some of the shots, just for you, mom! (c:
Connor along the trail
Ozette Beach Petroglyphs
Previously, we learned you can find some petroglyphs the Makah indians carved back in the 1700s or so right on Ozette Beach and thought it would be cool to check out. We've been through one portion of the trail system before, which is called Cape Alava (see the archive, here). However, this time, we were going to do the loop and that included the Sandpointe trail as well. An 11-mile hike round trip.
The petroglyphs were cool to locate but we didn't find all of them, so we will definitely venture back. One specifically, that we were looking for was of Spanish ships apparently from when they first arrived. There's some of orcas as well that we'll get pictures of next time too. I guess it's good not to discover everything at once so that we have an excuse to return!
La Push, Washington
Have you read Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series yet? Well, I've been completely engrossed in them and I'm on the last book, Breaking Dawn now. The storyline takes place in Forks, Washington and one of it's main characters in it is a native american named Jacob, who is from the Quileute tribe in La Push, Washington.
Anyway, this area is an old stomping ground of Brett's from when he was little, as this was their main fishing spot prior to Neah Bay. A lot has changed since Brett was a kid and Twilight fever was everywhere. It was sort of funny to observe and we understand there's actual Twilight tours as well (we didn't go on any, however). The beach and views were gorgeous and the driftwood laid in artistic disarray that seemed to create it's own sculptures. It was clear that the water in this area is quite rough and untamed.
The Hoh Rain Forest
Our last trip landed us at the Hoh Rain Forest, where we went through a short walk along the Hall of mosses. It was a magnificent display of gigantic trees and green everywhere among us with umbrellas of moss overhead.
It was magical being among the old growth trees and a great display of nature at its beautiful best.
