The Northern Olympic Peninsula

We spent most of this week hopping across the northern shore of the Olympic Peninsula.  We started off in Port Townsend, one of my favorite places. 

The campground at Point Hudson is right next to the town docks and faces Whidbey Island.  We had a lovely view of the water and had a picnic dinner on the beach.

The next day we drove over to Dungeness Spit – the longest naturally occurring spit of land in the United States.  We stopped there briefly to take a few photos, but we didn’t do the ten-mile hike out to the lighthouse and back.

Instead we continued to the Sol Duc area of Olympic National Park.  There are hot springs here and some pretty waterfalls.  Since it was so hot outside we skipped a dip in the springs and instead hiked to Sol Duc falls. 

Kevin in “Where’s Waldo?” mode

Then today we decided to drive over to Cape Flattery, which is at the northwest tip of the lower 48 states.  It was a bit of a detour off of highway 101 (and we were stopped four separate times for single-lane construction traffic), but the views from the cape were worth the hassle.  The mist seemed to hover only over the shore area – otherwise it was a bright sunny day just a mile or so inland.

The waves from the Pacific batter the rocks and slowly carve out caves in the cliffs beneath the forest, leaving the trees almost floating in midair.