The Beach and The Forest

Our "mission" today was to head west to the coastline - Rialto Beach to be exact. We wanted to see the Sea Stacks and the rugged coast. Sea Stacks are little (very tall) islands that used to be part of the mainland. At low tide, you can actually walk out to some of them. Over the years - the ocean has worn down the sides of the stacks. The trees that were on top of the stacks fall into the ocean and become drift wood. Huge tree size drift wood we had lots of fun climbing the trees - we felt just like cats. The driftwood lines the the coast for as far as you can see in both directions. The "sand" on the beach is actually little pebbles - worn smooth by the ocean. There are some as big and both of D's hands together and then some as small as a pea. It was really fun to be able to run and run. The wind in Tuckers fir made him look like he was flying. We even saw a couple of bald eagles and a pair of Canadian snow geese - with the father goose sitting on the nest.

Our other trip of the day was to the Hoh Rain Forest. This area was really neat - It's SO dense that it's almost dark at the ground level. There are ferns, moss and fungus growing on everything. The trees all have green beards and the ground is just a carpet of different kinds of green plants. It's so wet that the ground is spongy (it make running really fun). We were in search of the elusive yellow banana slug... but it was apparently hiding. We'll try again tomorrow in a different rain forest. Maybe we'll have better luck - it's supposed to rain.

A recent reader asked how we were able to type this blog - we actually tried but our noses push two keys at a time and that just wouldn't work. Then we tried with our paws but K just freaked out. So we all came to a compromise - K types while we (both of us) provide the dogtation!

Daily Observation: You can fetch a driftwood stick - but D can't even throw a driftwood tree.