Olympic National Park

I'm exploring another National Park. This one is called Olympic National Park. It is in the northern corner of Washington State. We took another ferry to get here from Victoria. Olympic National Park has rain forests, dry areas, high mountains, glaciers, shorelines and more. I have a lot to explore here!

Our first stop was Hurricane Hill. We had to drive to the top of a mountain to get there. I'm not sure why they call it a hill--it's definitely a big mountain!


We had lunch in a meadow on top of the mountain. I met a deer. She was very shy, but friendly. I also met a few birds. One bird thought my eye was a piece of candy. What is with these birds trying to eat me?



We camped high in the mountains. It started to snow in the middle of the night, so we had to drive down the mountain in the dark and sleep in the car. We didn't want to get stuck in the snow.


After exploring the mountains, we went to the beach. The beach had a lot of logs on it, called driftwood. The wood washes on to the beach and dries out in the sun. It was really fun to climb on.



At the beach we also found tide pools. Tide pools are small pools of water that stay behind on rocks when the tide goes out. All kinds of animals like to live in the pools, especially sea stars. I thought they were neat. They were purple and orange and we found so many of them just waiting for the tide to come back in.


We camped near the beach in a campground full of big trees. I had fun pretending I lived under their big roots. I played so much that I was really hungry for breakfast in the morning.


The last area we explored in Olympic National Park was the Hoh Rain Forest. Did you know there is a rain forest in Washington State? Rain forests don't have to be warm, they just have to get a lot of rain. The Hoh rain forest gets enough rain each year to cover over your house! It didn't rain a drop when we were there though.


We hiked through the forest and I got to see more really big trees. One tree had been decorated by natural things hikers left behind. Good thing I wasn't left behind!


The best creature I met in the rain forest was a banana slug. It was big and yellow and had brown spots like an old banana. It made me hungry.


On the way out of the forest, I ran into a few teddy bears having a picnic. I chatted with them for a while and told them about my adventures. They wanted to come along with me to see some sights, but I told them the car was too full. They were awfully nice.