Day Six (Fri-Aug 26)

I keep missing the rest of the day so I keep going back and say what happened the day prior. Even now it is late and I want to sleep.

Yesterday we left the Best Western in Chehalis and found a spot in the campground we were looking to get into, Bogachiel State Park in Washington state. There were about half the sites available in the midafternoon though today it is full and a bit noisier. I feel blessed that we were able to get here.

This campground is one of the few campgrounds that have showers in this area. It is a first come first serve campground, as is all but one campground, and has about 30 sites. The site we have is damp but really clean. The showers are decent and run with quarters for one and a half minutes of hot water. Cold water runs continually. According to the children the regular shower stalls in the bathroom don’t have hot water, only the handicap stalls work consistently. The handicap shower rooms are huge with a toilet and sink with no curtain to divide it from the shower. One thing to remember the guy who works the camp doesn’t allow soap to be left in the restrooms. He is afraid that someone could slip. Diamond Lake also didn’t have soap.

This morning I made French toast for the family. It tasted really good. The night before was fried potatoes with hamburger. That disappeared quickly. After cleaning up we piled in the car and drove to the Hoh Rainforest about an hour away. Apparently the rainforest is in a drought in the June/August months. While the annual rainfall is about 120 inches, only 6 inches fall during those two summer months. While Hoh Rainforest may claim big trees, the size is more impressive in the redwoods along the California coast. But the moss at this rainforest is pretty neat. There are so many varieties of mosses and ferns. I had no clue.

After the rainforest and lunch of peppered turkey sandwiches we headed out to Rialto beach. This took us through the town of Forks. Apparently that is where “Twilight” takes place. I never knew. There were quite a few places that seemed to cater to the “Twilight” population.

The beach was very interesting. There are bleached logs you climb over to get to the sandy part. It is black sand with lots of pebbles and larger sand/rocks. It is beautiful with the large rock islands off in the distant.

We came home and roasted hotdogs on a fire then made smores with roasted marshmallows, chocolate, and graham crackers.