NW Olympic Penninsula
**Sorry for the picture delay...but here they are!!

Here we are in Port Angeles WA getting ready to watch a movie and then get a good nights sleep before we jump on the ferry tomorrow to head to Victoria Canada. We left Long Beach Thursday morning and headed up the coast and then inland to Forks, WA right into the middle of the Olympic National Forest and the Olympic National Park. 101 hugs the coast for a while before it heads inland - so we said our goodbyes to the Pacific Coast for a while. It was very foggy but still beautiful! We drove through huge pine forests going in and out of the National Forest. It is easy to tell when you have left the National Forest or Park as clearcutting by all the area lumber and paper plants becomes very evident. Not much to report on our evening in Forks other than a yummy dinner alla our Coleman Grill and Ted!

Today we got up and hit the road and drove to Sol Duc Hot Springs in Olympic National Park. It was very cool...there was a fresh water pool at 88 degrees and then 3 mineral pools ranging from 98 - 104 degrees. It looked like you were at a regular pool except for the back drop of pine covered mountains and no chlorine - just the smell of sulfur!! They are famout hot mineral springs that have been being used for hundreds of years to cure all ills. We must say, by the time we left, Ted's Rheumatism and my pleurisy. So once we were healed of all of our ills we got back in the car to drive through more amazing forest.

We then came across Crescent Lake....which was AMAZING!! We hadn't read anything about it so we were surprised when we encountered it. It is clear and has waves it is so large! It sits at the base of multiple pine covered mountains and is georgous! We followed signs to the Crescent Lake Lodge - a really cute lodge on the lake that reminded me of the setting for Dirty Dancing...LOL!!

Then we continued on to Port Angeles for the night. We drove into town, unfortunately things were pretty much closed but we drove around and took in the views of the town set next to mountains with just a touch of snow still on top. Checked out the where we will be leaving from tomorrow on the ferry and came back to the RV park for a little grilled Halibut!

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. As I mentioned we head to Victoria tomorrow and then hop on another ferry to Vancouver on Sunday. So Mackenzie not only enters a new country tomorrow but he will be riding his first of 3 ferries on this trip (we are scheduled to take a ferry from WI to MI).

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