It has been about a decade since Madhu and I took
our last driving
sightseeing tour in USA. It turned out to be a great trip. The Pacific Northwest is a charmer and its offbeat character and quirky comparable to
other exotic and popular places on planet like New
Zealand with out flying that
far. ( My friends has accused me of not helping uS economy by taking all vacations abroad :-) )
We Started our driving tour of the Northwest form the Olympic State Park. After attending the great wedding and grand reunion of the school and college friends at Denver, on early Monday morning
(6/6/'16) we flew to Seattle, Wa. Drove
to Olympic national park directly from
the airport.
Hidden away in the nation’s
extreme northwest, Washington’s spectacular coastline and heavily forested
interior showcases over 350 miles of wild, storm-lashed beaches along with some
of the country’s most untainted and pristine rural ecosystems
First, we went to the Hurricane Ridge, named for the
100-mile-an-hour winds that can blow here in winter, in summer the Ridge is
merely spectacular, offering amazing views of the Olympic Mountains and the
Olympic Peninsula coastline. Two good easy hikes start near the Hurricane Ridge
Visitor Center: Hurricane Hill and Cirque Rim
Next we went to the Lake Crescent. This
deep, clear, glacier-carved but
skipped the Sol Duc Hot Springs.
Visited the Rialto Beach across La Push
for the sunset.
Stayed overnight at the Forks, know as the place ofr the vampires, Next day
visited the Hoh rain forest, Ruby beach
and Lake Quinault.
II) Madhu and Tushar at Olympic National Park
III ) Rest of the pictures at Olympic National Park ( ~200 pictures)
“Twenty years from now you will be more
disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain
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