We took an early morning, quick walk through Seattle's sculpture park by the Puget Sound with views of Mt Olympus. Walking along a trail through the park, we were yelled at through a loudspeaker that we were in a restricted area. We couldn’t tell if that was just another art installation, but we left nonetheless. We took a car ferry across Puget Sound, where I had a hot dog for breakfast and made a little girl extremely jealous and her grandparents a bit defensive. On the other side of the sound, we made our way around the peninsula going in and out of Olympic National Park and stopping at Hurricane Ridge for a great view of the sound and Canada. On the advice of a park ranger, we did a hike to some waterfalls and found a campsite on the western side of the Peninsula. The campsite was right beside Rialto Beach, so we watched the sunset from there. It was a pebbly beach, with lots of jagged rocks sticking up from the water, and it’s probably my favorite place of the trip so far. It’s all east from here.
In addition to the hallmark of reaching the Pacific Ocean at roughly the halfway point of this leg of our journey, we also went net positive on our parks pass. A couple weeks ago we paid $80 for unlimited access for a year to all national parks and forests, and with our entry to Olympic, we would have paid $91 in entrance fees by now. (Beauty and fiscal prudence, the perfect road trip -B).
-M
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