The hike to Sol Duc was also a .8 mile hike. It was an easy hike NO STAIRS! 
A little bunch of falls on the way up to Sol Duc…I don’t know if they have an actual name or not. I’m sure they do. And if I did a little research I’m sure I could find out…but that’s not the point of this hike… 
I’ve seen pics of these falls before and was pretty impressed! I wasn’t disappointed! I even asked Charlie if it was wrong of me to be more impressed with them than Niagara Falls. He said no because this wasn’t a huge tourist spot. You have to actually put some effort into getting there. There aren’t a million and one people everywhere. And we actually got down right next to them! We went down on the rock just above the little fall there on the right. And got some of the pics below…
I love this one the best…the clouds came in for a little bit and blocked out that harsh sun that was causing bright spots in the rest of them. And it lookes so dreamy from the mist and water that was spraying up on the lens and camera and me!
This was looking away from the falls…
Beaver Falls…before we left Chaz looked up all kinds of places he wanted to go visit. There are a gazillion waterfalls where we traveled so he wanted to see as many as he could.
This waterfall was said to be up Highway 113…not to far from the 101. There would be an abandoned rock quarry on the left and a long pull out on the right. No signs anywhere and Chaz was wondering why. So we spot the quarry…and then the pull out immediately after that. And as we are pulling over I see the falls on the right. We soon found out why there was no signage… The path down was just what had been warn down from people going up and down to see it. Not a great path and right off the road…I only almost slipped and slid down once…
I had read that it’s best to come early spring when the river is running more. It was still pretty cool but I could tell it could be even better if we had come another time.
First glimpse of Lake Crescent…
I love this shot of Chaz…
Not much to say about these pics…I think they speak for themselves! The water was so clear and beautiful!
Some wildlife! And they just stood there and let us walk up pretty close…so used to people being around I’m sure.
Run little deer the vampires will get you!
That is supposed to be the instant version of the above pic…but it decided to expose for the trees and blew out the rest…shoulda known it would do that…
The hike to Marymere Falls was .8 miles…it was a pretty easy hike for my out of shape butt…until we got to the stairs…luckily they weren’t too bad…but they did show me just how out of shape I am! Later I will share with you the stairs that amost KILLED me! But all of the climbing was worth it, since I made it home alive!
The falls were pretty cool! The most impressive of the weekend but still cool to look at and take pics of!
A nice lady asked if we wanted a pic in front of the falls…oh sure I guess.
This little tunnel takes you under the road and back toward Lake Crescent. To me it looked like it could go anywhere so I had to stop and take a picture of it!
I’m sure Port Angeles is a nice little place and if we would have had more time to explore it would have been cool. But we had a lot planned for the day so we quickly went by the Lincoln Theater and Bella Italia before we headed out. Honestly if you’ve seen pics of it on the net…you’ve seen it. LOL!
Aaron and Keli were kind enough to take the kids off our hands so we could get away for a couple days before Chaz takes off to AZ for a few weeks before the move…
So we dropped off the kids and took off! First we stopped at Olive Garden and ate some yummy soup, salad and bread sticks! And hurried off to the Ferry…missed it by two cars…darn it! If only he hadn’t had that second bowl of soup!
So while we sat and waited I walked out in the rain to give my camera a shower and take some pics while Chaz snoozed…
It was a weird feeling when the ferry started moving! I hadn’t realized it had even started moving until I was walking the opposite way it was moving! That is such a weird feeling kind of like an escalator but more subtle…
First Charlie and I ventured up to the “Sun” Deck…Not much sun around these parts so it cracked us up to see that! Especially with the wind and rain right then…It was a cool sun deck anyway…
The sunset was awesome…
After the ferry we drove on to Port Angeles…
The sunset was awesome from the road too!
Our motel…The Royal Victorian…
…it was too late for the Twilight attractions to be open…and too early when we were up and ready to leave the next day for them to be open too so we didn’t go in Bella Italia or the Lincoln Theater… And my pics of it are rather crap…But you’ll get to see those on day 2 of this journey…
