Olympic National Park 7

After leaving Heart O' the Hills, we headed west across the top of the Olympic Peninsula.  We pasted a really beautiful, and large lake along the way, appropriately named Lake Crescent.  It was after all shaped like a crescent moon.  We stopped by part of the lake the previous day which I forgot to mention.  We took a drive around the surrounding areas.  We went through the town of Joyce.  The town was so small that the general store also served as gas station, and a  post office.  Wasn't too much more to see there besides some homes and a school.  We then drove to a part of the lake called East Beach to eat our lunch.  It was so crowded there.  Everyone was swimming and relaxing by the lake.  It got hot pretty quick.  So anyway, we really pasted Lake Crescent for the second time.  This time though we drove along side the entire length of it.  The water was so blue and clear.  We pulled over so I could take a few photos.  We also passed a guy peeing right there along the side of the lake by the road.  Well, I guess when you got to go, you got to go.  The next stop on our trip around the park was Sol Duc Hot Springs.  Boy did that turn out different then we thought.  It was a resort, where we were hoping to hookup to electric and water to recharge, and maybe go to the hot springs.  Well it turned out to be 105 degrees that day, a little hot for the hot springs, and they were charging $11.50 per person to go in!  That was more than we were willing to pay, so we went to get cooled off in the camper in the air conditioning.  That worked for a little while, until the breaker tripped and we lost power for about 1 hour.  Turns out everyone on our side of the campground lost power.  A few people went over to the office to see what was up.  Turns out there is only 100 amps of service per side of the campground.  Divided up we were each allowed to use 15- 20 amps!  That's not much at all, and we certainly couldn't use our air conditioner!  The camper had turned into an oven at that point so we decided to go outside to our picnic table to watch a movie.  It was a lot cooler outside.  Then later we went to the National Park Campground which turned out to be within walking distance.  It was even more cooler in there, lots of shade which our campground didn't have.  Well we didn't want this to ruin our time there.  We went to the ranger program, and had a great time.  The ranger had his guitar.  He taught us about the history of the park and the rivers, and dams.  Sang a couple songs too.  Then we went back to the camper.  We sat around the campfire a little while.  The temperature was starting to drop when the sun set.  From previous experience I thought if we got a luke warm shower we would be able to cool off.  I was hoping it would work this time, and luckily it did.