We're still in the Hoh Rainforest campground, after a
good night's sleep. It got dark before I could take more pictures last
night.
Here's Ditto and I checking out the Hoh River flowing
by the camp.
Here's what the campground looked like. It was a
beautiful place with lots of moss covered trees.
Then we had to leave the mossy wonderland and keep on
trucking. But, on the way back out we had to stop at the big fir.

Joyce just loved standing there because it made her
feel so small. I said, "feel"!!!
Moving on, we made our way on up to the very tip of
Olympic Peninsula to the Makah Indian reservation. My intent was to camp there,
but we got there earlier than expected. So, we did a Clark Griswold look see,
instead. Actually, there wasn't as much to see as I had hoped, but the tribal
museum satisfied me. It was really quite an extensive museum. Unfortunately,
they did not permit photos in the museum, just in the outer money making,
trinket sales area. They did, however, have a real live dead
totem pole.
As we left the reservation, we passed the sacred
burial grounds.
We traveled along the northern coast of the Olympic
Peninsula to Port Townsend. Arriving unannounced, we had to settle for the
local fairgrounds campground. But, it was cheap, clean and turned out to be
pretty interesting.
I was walking Ditto at the fairgrounds when this homeless looking guy
came rolling by in a wheelchair. I spoke and seemed to have hit a switch on the
guy. He proceeded to tell me all about his jet plane that was in a shop being
repainted and did I want to go somewhere in it when it was ready. About then a
dog came running up and the guy told me what kind of breed it was and how much
it was worth because it was so rare. This went on and on for quite some time.
I tried to be polite and, at least, appeared to listen. Then I looked behind
him and saw a young woman walking her dog. She made the mistake of greeting the
guy and his attention turned toward her. I faded away, leaving the poor woman
in his charge. Later Joyce and I saw where he was staying. It was up in the
corner of the campground. He had a couple of blue tarps tied down low and
looking like small versions of Arab desert dweller tents. So, I guess he looked
homeless because he was. |
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