It's a big national park, including some isolated units, and, as I've observed, more diverse than any we have seen before. Our tour continued with a visit to Lake Quinault and the historic Lake Quinault Lodge, and then a drive and short hike to see the world's largest Sitka Spruce. We spent the night, October 14th, in Raymond. It was to be our last day in the park and our last in Washington.
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| View from from Kalalach campsite |
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| Lake Quinault Lodge |
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| They average 12 feet of rain a year here; but not this day, as Aragorn would say |
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| Big room in the Lodge |
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The whole thing was built in a matter of weeks; by the same builder who later
did the Gallatin Gateway Lodge, site of one of my first meetings with the Montana
Committee for the Humanities, way back in 1996 |
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| Construction documentation |
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| Outside, lake and grounds |
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| Totem/rain gauge |
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| Back inside, ceiling decor |
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| More documentation: research on Bigfoot |
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| Sign of the place: in a nearby general store, rain chains... |
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| Or, ce n'est pas un sentier, as Magritte would say |
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One of the more interesting "tear drops" we have seen; we briefly owned one,
of plastic molded construction, back in the late 90s; another proto-type that
did not pan out; we sold it after a few trips and soon bought another truck
camper, a Roamin' Chariot, built in Spokane, Washington (previously we had
briefly owned a Palamino; but I digress...) |
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| Not the Big Tree, but an interestingly hollowed out spruce |
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Fine print; Vicki always reads this stuff while I am off trying
to find the right light, the right angle and frame...had I read
it we might have stayed to see all the Champion Trees of
the Valley, to complete our set; Champion Trees are a big
deal in the UK of GB, as we well know |
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| The Big Sitka Spruce |
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| View of Lake Quinault |
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Like most of the peninsula we've seen, it's remote and very sparsely populated;
here, a few cabins around the lake, a few farms; 12 feet of rain on average... |
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