Posted on 04/23/2007 8:11:31 PM PDT by A. Pole
I LOVE the HOH!! I LOVE Solduc!!! I LOVE the PARK...period!! It is FABULOUS! Beach #1 is TERRIFIC!!!
Yep - all my Seattle and Eastside friends are jealous that I live on the Hood Canal and just a short drive to anyplace on the Peninsula esp. the Hoh ... it’s practically in my back yard (so to speak -) ....
OMG...>EVERYONE should try to see those beaches also...RUBY.... RIALTO.....They are SPECTACULAR!!!! If any Freepers are cruising to Alaska, take a 2 day trip to OLPMPIC NATIONAL PARK!! OMG!! And Lake Crescent....UNBELIEVABLY BEAUTIFUL!!
Best thing about Ruby and Rialto is gem hunting ....
Never did Gem Hunting...just the VIEW is a GEM....GOD’S GEM!!! OMG!! It is SPECTACULAR!!!! I miss it...we used to live in Seattle and would go often.
I forgot to ask....what kind of gems???
The best place is where the river empties onto the beach ... you can find ruby like pebbles (Ruby Beach) ... problem is that it’s a long way out from Seattle for most.
We call them gems - but as I mentioned, the ruby like stuff, and also what we call Washington jade ... lots of nice quartz some with gold flake ....
IMG...it is not....We went from Ruby Beach to Seattle via the Ferry is a few hours.
Really, to me the real gem is the VIEW....the VIEW is UNBELIEVABLE!!! HEAVEN on EARTH!!!
I fly from Boeing Field where I work as a pilot. It’s right on I-5. When I come home for the weekends I either have to take the ferry from downtown or drive - it’s three to four hours just to where my folks live, which is just south of Port Townsend. From there to Rialto it’s another two to three hour drive.
We lived in Belltown.....LIBERAL Belltown...yikes, I still shudder, although Seattle was AWESOME...AWESOME@! ONly been to Port Townsend once years and years and years ago. Have you been t Beach #1 with the BURLED “forest???
I’ve lived in Washington since I was about five ... been all over ... as they say ... bin there dun that ....got the t-shirt ...LOL ... someone who lives in the area actually buying a Seattle “T” ..... but yes, all up and down the beach areas ... Longbeach and Westport are my two fav’s followed by Ocean Shores ....
What the hey was a forest doing down in a coal mine anyway?
How'd they get the rain down there, and never mind that, how the hell did they get the sun to shine down there?
Somehow, it just doesn't all add up.
It's NOT the same climate. As you can see on the map I linked to earlier, the rainfall on the west side of the Hood Canal is only a small fraction of the rainfall in the rain forests on the other side of the Olympics.
It's odd that someone who actually lives in the area is ignorant of the "rain shadow" produced by the Olympic Mountains.
Apparently you are also unable to back up your "definition" of "rain forest".
I remember reading one time that a roadbed was found within a coal seam in Ill.
The over use of 'rain forest' for everything is nothing but political correctness ....
You prove to me your side. You brought it up. So far you've not convinced me at all.
...ps: The reasoning I see is if a forest receives a lot of rain it therefor must be a rain forest - no, it’s a forest that gets a lot of rain .... it does not produce its own ... that’s the definition of a rain forest. The forest produces its own rain ... not gets rained on ....
pps: Trivia question for you. What was the name of the Hoh Rain Forest before it was called “The Hoh Rain Forest” ....
As opposed to?
Oh, wait, I know...
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