More Hiking

We slept in a little today, I think we left the house at 8:30AM and headed down to the Hungry Bear restaurant for breakfast.  I say run down, but it was about a 15 mile drive.  Breakfast was great and one of the few times we actually ate out.  Every day we have been taking our lunch and when we find a nice place on our hike, we stop and eat.

After breakfast we drove about 20 minutes to the Marymere Falls trail head.   We parked at Bovee’s meadow.  We made the hike up to the falls and glad that we did.  It was a great trail and we only came across a few

people.  On our way back we actually did several other small trails in the area.  

We got 5 miles in pretty easy that morning.   When we got back to the meadow, we grabbed the cooler and found a picnic table and setup camp.   We ate our sandwiches and I tried my hand at some fishing, while Candy worked on her embroidery.

After we finished up around 3PM, we drove about 20 minutes to the Sol Duc Hot Springs.  We had brought our bathing gear with the plan of going.  It was pretty nice and not overly packed.  They had three pools.  One was 78, one was 105 and the other was supposed to be 115, but it didn’t feel that hot.

Sol Duc

Out on the road this week for a little time off.   We are spending the week up on the Sol Duc River.   We are planning to hike several trails in the area.

We flew into Seattle on Friday and spent most of the day in the city checking out the Pike Market.  It was packed with people.  I guess the Seefair was starting for the weekend.   We had the opportunity to see the Blue Angles as they practiced for the shows on Saturday and Sunday.  We made a stop at a quilt shop so Candy could grab another row by row pattern.  After the shops and lunch we visited the aquarium.  It was really nice, clean and lot's of great fish and sea creatures on display.  

On Saturday we started working out way up to rental house.  We stopped at three different quilt shops along the way.    Let's see it was Tacoma, Gig Harbor and Port Gables.  We picked up three more row by row patterns.

We pulled into Port Angeles and stopped at the Wal-Mart.  We picked up groceries and stuff for the house.  We then continued our journey.  We reached the house around 4PM, unloaded and pretty much moved in. 

On Sunday we hiked the Sol Duc River up to the falls.  It wasn't a long hike but decent for a starter.  Even with the water being way down it was still impressive, I can only imagine what is like when the water is high. We also found the Sol Duc River Hot Springs.   We are planning to do that on Thu or Fri.  We stopped along the way and did two other short trails in the park.  I think we finished up around noon and then we drove to Forks, WA to see what was going on.

We cruised the main drag in Forks and even found a couple of garage sales.  We were both ready for lunch and opted for Mexican food,  it was decent. On our way back to the house we stopped and visited the fish hatchery.  It was pretty cool to see some big fish.