August in a nutshell - Part 5

Aug 13 - mmmmm, roasted bananas for breakfast.

Aug 13 morning - we drove out to La Push, which is on the other side of the Quillayute River mouth about one mile south of Rialto Beach.  Here you can see we are waiting for the fog to burn off and testing the water.

Aug 13 afternoon - Just after our picnic lunch at the beach the sun managed to shine through.  Here we were visited by a flock of pelicans.

Aug 13 - a view toward the mouth of the Quillayute River.

Aug 14 - time to leave the campsite and head back to Port Angeles. On the way out of the Olympic National Park, we stopped at the Salmon Cascades on the word of a young Park Ranger that she had seen salmon jumping.  We did in fact see salmon jumping and in this photo you can just see one below the surface of the water. Really!

Aug 14 - in Port Angeles the Snikles dropped PeJu off at the ferry terminal for their ride home. Here is Peter all packed up and ready to go!

Aug 14 afternoon - after a lovely sunny ride back to Victoria we arrive at the breakwater. So many times PeJu have stood on that very breakwater and waved at the Blackball ferry!

Tuesday July 5 2011

I have to say, the weather has been absolutely fabulous!  Seriously.  After dinner, we went for a ride on our mountain bikes, with no real plan for a route.  We ended up out at the breakwater, so locked up the bikes and walked out to the point. 

We weren't the only ones out there it was so nice.  Here is a picture of the Blackball Ferry on it's way to Port Angeles.  Nice ship.

After we got home, Peter decided to do some maintenance on the road bikes as we have been talking about riding them one of these days.  We'd been having so much fun on the tandem, it seems the road bikes got left behind.  Nice to have the light, some space and a warm breeze to do this at 9 at night!