Olympic National Park 9

The next day we went to the Hoh Rainforest.  That was about a 35 mile drive to get there.  We had to drive through the town of Forks to get there.  Now I'm not sure how many of you Twilight fans there are reading this blog, I know one in particular, (Miss Alicia).  If your not in the loop, or even aware of the movie at all, I will fill you in a little bit.  Well a few of the towns in Washington appeared in the movie.  Such as Port Angeles, Forks, and La Push is in the next one.  So the town of Forks especially is buzzing with crazy Twilight fans everywhere!  You can even take tours of some of the locations seen in the movie.  I did read that most of the movie was filmed in Oregon, and the sequels will be shot in British Columbia.  Anyway enough about that, we got to the rainforest which was really cool.  They were doing some road work though which kind of took away a little of the quite that you can feel there.  It was awfully hot though that day.  In the 90's, and the rainforest was actually in need of rain.  It was 20 inches behind in there rainfall for the year.  A little higher than normal.  It gets most of it's rain during the winter months.  The wildlife in that area ranges from a lot of birds, fish in the creeks, and rivers, Roosevelt Elk, and white tailed deer, and of course squirrels and chipmunks.  The deer population remains pretty high there since most of the cougars there don't go down that far in elevation.  They have a natural spring there that is so clear and so pure it's one of the purest in the world.  It naturally filters the water through it's own mosses and grasses.  We went on a ranger lead trail to learn about some of the trees.  Many trees with mosses growing on them, just huge trees reaching to the sky.   After the trail we ate lunch, then headed back to the campfire.  We pretty much just hung out there the the rest of the afternoon, into the evening, enjoying a fire of course.  At 8:00pm we went to the ranger lead talk about some of the animals living in the ocean, that was pretty cool.  The only problem is going to these ranger talks we take in so much awesome information, that we can't retain it all.  I'm kind of disappointed about that.  I almost want to tape record them to help out my brain.