After the Ocean we headed an hour north west towards mt. Olympus. Cheryl found an interesting print of the Quinault Rain Forest in the foothills of the mountain while visiting the Pike Street Market. So we began another adventure.
Who knew there was a temperate rain forest in the Olympic Peninsula? Or in the US for that matter. It gets between 100 and 200 inches of rain a year. Iowa gets around 30.
Again pictures do not do justice. There is a moss growing and hanging in the massive trees. Many of the fir trees are 5 feet or larger in diameter, and growing hundred to two hundred feet tall, over several hundred years. This is one the most amazing and beautiful places we have been in our lives. Also very remote. Yes, Very remote.
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