SEQUIM, WA - - We're spending extra time in Sequim because we've have a nice campground and site; the coffee shop in Sequim lets us sit / work our computers and charge them without a fuss and the daytime / night time temps are nice. There are also a lot of places pretty close by worth checking out...and where we've probably been before.
Olympic National Park is huge. One of the most accessible parts is Hurricane Ridge where we ended up Wednesday. Some of the deer are not very afraid of visitors as the doe and fawn in the top photo show. Neither was the yellow-bellied marmot who was munching lunch as we watched.
The weather at 5,242' is can be brutal...as this (battered but still living) pine tree trunk demonstrates. High winds, snow and freezing temps haven't killed the tree yet, but there's little respite for anything growing at altitude. The heavy snow pack on the distant mountains remains all year.
And now, the blue tanker. The Polar Enterprise is a crude oil tanker with Port Angeles as its home base. The approx. 750' tanker was home for a short break. The striking blue paint job sets the Polar Enterprise apart from its dull by comparison fellow vessels.
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