Tushar in National Parks: Olympic National Park , Wa

I) Olympic National Park – Selected Pictures

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