We saw a flock of brown pelicans at Damon Point hunting for their lunches. It was fun to watch them soaring and swooping gracefully above the ocean only to end with a rather awkward ker-plunk drop and splash into the water.
The Lake Quinault Lodge where Teddy Roosevelt visited back in 1937 had a really lovely rain gauge--the record level of rain recorded in one year was 15 feet! 13 feet was recorded in 2011. I guess we really shouldn't complain about rain over here in Seattle.
We finished the day with a pleasant 4 mile loop walk around the lake, seeing the various native flora and fauna. My personal favorites were the ferns (sans spores, of course!)--lovely green fiddleheads just unfurling--and forget-me-nots as well as a visit to the world's largest Sitka Spruce. Almost a thousand years old, it had a circumference of almost 59 feet that we could only hug but not encircle with our arms. Lunch on the lawn of the Lake Quinault Lodge afterwards is de rigueur!
