This morning we continued to the Hoh Rain Forest in Olympic National Park. This forest should be the stage for fairy tales. The tree trunks and branches are covered in thick moss-like plants that hang down like beards. Roots and old logs look like faces of dangerous creatures while providing nutrients to the next generation of trees. When a dead tree falls, mosses begin to cover it and decay sets in. New saplings start growing on top of the old log and eventually wrap their roots around the old log.  The old log continues to rot away leaving root arches from the new tree where it once lay.

We met another photographer couple on our hike through the rainforest and met them again at our next stop at Ruby Beach where we experienced the cloud forest. Despite the fact that it was a sunny day with perfectly blue sky, this beach was covered in fog and low cloud and appeared black and white. We spent a couple of hours there talking about photography and dog training and took some nice pictures.

Since we needed to do laundry and RV-cleaning we stayed at a full service RV park in Hoquiam. However, laundry did not start before dinner. We walked for about 3kms to the 8th Street Ale House where we had steak skillet and Guinness Pot Roast dinners along with a local ale. After walking back to our campsite we started laundry which we finished, except for a few damp specimens, at around midnight.