Never seen 'cones' on a Monkey Tail tree before. Cool huh

 

Ike Kinswa State Park was our first stop and we had the place pretty much to ourselves and the quiet was broken only by an occasional "goose flyover", evening frog seranade and an annoying crow. This park is a keeper and would love to return.

 

 

Lots of wildlife

 

 

Nice flat hiking trails around the lake.

 

Grayland was our second stop and we spent 3 days here, one which was pretty rainy so we played cards and watched movies. The park was pretty full for a mid week in October.

 

Grayland is miles of sand in every direction

 

Lots of mushrooms out in the fall. Saw people actually picking them. Hope they knew what they were doing.

 

The beach at La Push WA. This was our third stop. La Push is on the Quinault Nation land and this beach is very popular with beachcombers, surfers and folks who like to surf fish. The beach was rocky and littered with hugh trees. On our way it was pouring rain so we stopped in the town of Forks and Roy bought a raincoat. That was the last rain we saw. He never had to use his coat.

 

Did I mention the beach was filled with driftwood. Can you imagine the storm it took to bring this giant ashore?

 

Roy's experiment was to see if he could get some foam and let it dry and it might retain it's shape because it was salt. Well it didn't so I took a picture of the foam to bring home with us.

 

It looks like this Coasty is heading right for the rocks, but there is a channel there taking them back to their station.

 

You can always find a gull ready to pose for you

 

Our last stop was Crescent Beach, just west of Port Angeles. We stopped here because they had WIFI but it was old and slow. We followed the GPS from Forks and it instructed us to turn on Beach Road right past Lake Crescent and the road quickly narrowed to less than one lane. It was scary, especially when met on coming cars. There was no place to turn around so we just stuck it out. Roy was more worried than I was, I figured we were bigger, but if we had met a truck, Id still be sitting there.
The beach was lovely, with tons of seaweeds, driftwood and wildlife.

 

View from the beach

 

 

 

Shells and seaweed.

 

 

 

 

We saw this buck walking thur the park

 

Eagles were thick. This one was being harrassed by a gull.