Thursday, September 27
We traveled down the Olympic Peninsula enroute to our next campground at the south end of the Peninsula. Our sightseeing for the day was to take in the Quinalt rain forest. As is true of most of the Peninsula and much of the Northwest, this area is home to Indians, in this case the Quinalt tribe.
We parked with trailer in tow at the Ranger Station and the trailhead that leads through the rain forest. It is an easy hike of a little under two miles. The forest was impressive. I quickly figured out that the attributes of a rain forest are moss, ferns, boggy and stream areas, lush growth of everything, and unique plants that are part of the forest like lichen.
One of the feautured areas of the hike was an abandoned homestead. I was not able to determine why it was abandoned many years ago, but apparently it was a properous farm for several decades. It has no elements of the forest.
Below are pictures of the rain forest and homestead.
