DAY 20 was off to a halfway decent start. Well rested we made our way up to Olympic National Park, the only real stop on the list for the day. It was good that it was set up like that. The tour up to and through the park was eventful. The views were amazing, as so many of them in the past.

The weather was a bit unpredictable; warm and sunny one moment, cloudy and freezing at another. At the top of Hurricane Ridge was especially cold. A plus was seeing the family of deer grazing near the visitor center. We chose to skip touring the temperate rain forest, since we took care of that the day before.

We continued on making a few pit-stops along the way. One was the Big Cedar Tree and another was the Forks Timber Museum. We missed the museum by about an hour, but the grounds were open and contained some neat things to look at along with a memorial to lumberjacks that had lost their lives in logging accidents.

We made it to Ruby and Kalaloch Beaches. We were now officially on the west coast. The water wasn’t as cold as I thought it would be. The sand, a dark charcoal color that I have only seen in a few places before, met a smooth rocky shoreline also littered with a great deal of driftwood. If that wasn’t enough, looking westward into the ocean were huge rocks standing out in the water. We stayed until the sun set (check out the gallery) and then found our way to a remote campsite and called it a night.