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Randle, WA – Mountain Rainier National Park, WA – South Beach, Olympic National Park 291 miles
10:15 we arrived at Mount Rainier Nation Park the south entrance, foggy, rainy, park ranger suggested that we take the Northern Line, as also may see the highest peak of the park - - Rainier peak (14,410 feet high).
With the rise of altitude, the air is becoming more and more cold, snow on both sides of the road up more slowly. Scenery the best place to count in Altitude 6350 feet of the front of the visitor center, snowy, chilly air. With the fog is slowly sinking, snow-capped mountains in the distance began to clear, vague, continuous, like a fairyland. Unfortunately, the park ranger said the fog until late afternoon to completely disperse; we cannot clearly see the panoramic view of Mount Rainier peak, this little regret.
Rainier peak snow-capped mountains of the national park, the peak is open only in June each year - in September, like a beautiful night-blooming cereus, is only a short time now, but enough to make you memorable, we had dozens of sharp turns, slope and shake the very test of my driving techniques.
Out of the park, along the 4 hours driven, we reach the Olympic National Park (Olympic National Park) 17:10. As one of the most popular national park in the United States, she is to known, equivalent to Yellowstone Park.
Tonight's campground is located in the south beach, just by the Pacific Ocean, is a standard unrivaled views. In order to protect the natural ecological environment , camping placing without any camp supporting facilities, which is a $ 10 per night camping fee visitors consciously on a standard camping location wooden box, did not see any management personnel.
After dinner, half past nine p.m. the night sea becomes rough, completely different from the gentle quiet during the day, this is the first time I looked on the waves of the sea sound sleep. The middle of the night under heavy rain, in the dark of the night, listening to the rain outside the tent and the sound of the waves, hiding in a warm sleeping bag and I really have a sense of happiness!
