Our next stop was on the western side of the Olympic NP in the town of Forks, claiming the title of Logging Capital of the World:
After some lunch, we headed out to the beach to see the Pacific Ocean. We drove west to Rialto Beach which is a part of Olympic National Park:
We were absolutely floored by what we found at the beach. The shoreline was covered with thousands of logs of all sizes and with millions of rounded stones:
The logs, which are really fallen trees, have been washed to the beach from the mountain side to the east. Hundreds of years of erosion of the river valley has transported the logs and stumps to the beach. Some of the logs are 4 to 5 feet in diameter. It is an amazing landscape:
to be continued....