We enjoyed breakfast at our hotel in Forks and then packed up the car to head south.
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| Banana slug on the wall outside our lodging. |
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| We saw a rainbow over the river. The hotel was really in a beautiful setting! |
Megan and Matthew enjoyed swinging a bit.
We headed to the Quinault Rainforest area of Olympic National Park.
We first west to the Maple Glade Trail. The Quinault Rainforest was really green with lots of moss and plants growing everywhere. However, it has more cedar trees (versus spruce trees in the Hoh Rainforest) and overall the trees seemed to be spaced farther apart. Here are some pictures from the Maple Glade Trail which was stunning.
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| U under a large cedar tree. |
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| Deer fern with both sterile and fertile fronds. |
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| Megan and Me |
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| We found it interesting how the branches on trees would start way up high on the tree. |
We then went to the other side of Lake Quinault to hike the Nature Trail.
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| Willaby Falls |
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| Look at all the growth on the top of the tree stump! |
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| Hello Matthew! |
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| So much fungus! |
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| U with one tree using another tree as a nursery tree. |
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| Matthew and U inside an old cedar tree. |
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| Sarah |
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| We hiked to the world's largest spruce tree. |
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| Me, Matthew, Sarah and Megan at the base of the tree. |
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| A panoramic up the tree. |
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| Matthew tried to climb around the tree. |
Next, we headed to Cape Disappointment.
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| U and Matthew at Fort Canby. |
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| U at a less overgrown part of the fort. |
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| The Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean. |
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| We kept seeing this animal pop its head above water. We think it was either a seal or a sea otter. |
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| Astoria in the distance |
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| Cape Disappointment Lighthouse. |
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| View from the North Jetty. |
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| Sarah, the ladybug whisperer |
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| The ladybugs liked Megan too |
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| U was interested to see Suomi Hall in Astoria and learn about the connection between Astoria and Finland. |
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| We ate dinner by the river with nice views of the bridge. |
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| Megan played on the small beach. |
We walked along the river and found some interesting structures.
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| Another view of the bridge. |
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