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My next stop on the journey was Lake Quinault and the adjacent Quinault Rain Forest.
On The Road – PaulB – A visit to the Olympic Peninsula 9 of 10Post + Comments
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My next stop on the journey was Lake Quinault and the adjacent Quinault Rain Forest.
On The Road – PaulB – A visit to the Olympic Peninsula 9 of 10Post + Comments
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After my visit to Beach Four, I headed to the Hoh Rain Forest, a temperate rain forest, one of four in Olympic National Park (the others are Queets, Quinault, and Bogachiel).
Seattle has a reputation of being rainy although it gets mostly drizzle and mist rather than heavy rains, leading to an annual rainfall of roughly 3 feet a year. The Hoh Rain Forest, in contrast, gets around four times that, as much as 12 feet of rain every year.
On The Road – PaulB – A visit to the Olympic Peninsula 8 of 10Post + Comments
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Another day, another beach. There are so many beaches that they simply gave up finding descriptive names for all of them. This one had the unprepossessing name of “Beach Four.” It has some of the better tide pools in the region, as well as some interesting rock formations.
On The Road – PaulB – A visit to the Olympic Peninsula 7 of 10Post + Comments
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The sixth stop of the trip was a visit to Rialto Beach and Ruby Beach. There are multiple types of beaches in the region, including smooth sandy beaches, rocky tide pools, beaches with massive quantities of driftwood piled high and shaped by storm and wave, and beaches with quantities of smooth, decorative rocks. About the only thing they have in common is that the water is freaking cold. Unless you’re doing a polar bear challenge, you’re not going to do a lot of swimming.
On The Road – PaulB – A visit to the Olympic Peninsula 6 of 10Post + Comments
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It’s been an El Nino Spring which has the West, especially the PNW, getting cooler and wetter weather. We’ve had many days of showers, often warmish showers because of repeated Pineapple Expresses. These channel a 250 mile wide firehose from the moist tropics of NotMax’s backyard. We hit 74° once. Despite that some plants are very happy.
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On St. Kitts and Nevis we took a ride on the Rum Train. Originally, each sugar plantation had its own sugar refinery. Ruins of these can be seen all over the island. Later the planters decided it was more cost effective to centralize sugar processing and built a railroad to bring the cane in from around the island. Once the EU stopped subsidizing sugar production, refining stopped and all the cane was allowed to go feral.
Some local business men decided that the little railroad could be turned into a tourist attraction. New open air cars were brought in from the US, but little is done to maintain the track. So the ride is definitely a rock and roll experience. Still the staff serves you as many rum cocktails as you want. And some young men in colorful costumes managed to dance in the aisles.
On The Road – Elma – Traveling Among the Saints: Part 3Post + Comments (11)
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All the islands are volcanic in origin, so there are mostly steep winding roads, usually with no guardrails and sheer drops on one side or the other. In St. Lucia the authorities were still being very careful about the pandemic. You could not leave the cruise port unless you were on an officially approved tour, where they spayed you constantly with hand sanitizer. At least it had a nice ginger fragrance. We took a bus tour of the island which went up into the hills. Fortunately, our driver seemed very competent.
Unfortunately, the bus was manufactured in Japan, and not designed to accommodate your average North American’s long legs and big backside. The island is lush and tropical on the Caribbean side and arid on the Atlantic side. I felt kind of naughty, when the guide proudly pointed out the flag of St. Lucia and my immediate thought was “beam me up Scotty.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Saint_Lucia)
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