Our last day was a very, very long one.

We started in Ocean Shores and packed up. Rather than chill on the beach and then head to the airport at the end of the day, we decided to super road trip…

We went up 101 back into Olympic all the way to the north edge of the peninsula, then through the park coming out at Port Angeles.

A ton of driving, but some really nice views along the way.

From Port Angeles we followed the Puget sound south then drove out onto some islands via bridges…

Before catching a ferry back to Seattle…

Yes, that white hazy thing is Rainier.

Once we docked north of Seattle we fought rush hour traffic and made our way to the airport to catch our redeye home.

All pics here.

Crunched on time we had to do all of Olympic in essentially one monstrously long day.

Early in the morning we were in the car and working our way into the mists of Olympic. First top, the temperate rain forest side… Specifically the Hall of Mosses and the other hikes in that same area.

As we came out of our 2nd hike, a huge herd of Elk/Moose stampeded nearby in the woods. It was kind of cool but also kind of scary. They’re huge. Sadly no good pictures.

We ate some leftover pizza at the picnic area and then drove through Forks (aka Twilight central) otw to the ocean side of things.

Its kind of sad what used to be a quiet logging and camping supply town has become this weird commercial cluster F in the middle of nowhere.

The driftwood was as impressively massive as ever.

Despite temps in the low 50s, a pretty good breeze, and a steady drizzle we soldiered onwards and made it to Hole in the Wall and even did the very steep hike up and down to see it from the better (but rarely accessed) side…

At the end of a very long day we drove out to the Indian Reservation from twilight to see a beach there. It didn’t really look any different…. but the local convenience store gave us warning … Vampire Threat Level High!

All photos here.