A hike in the woods and oysters on the reservation...

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For those of you who may be geographers in the audience, I have included a map above showing the location of Hood Canal to Seattle and the Puget Sound. The route that is highlighted represents the trip we took today from Potlatch to Twanoh State Park. Twanoh is a beautiful park nestled in a gorge that comes down from the rain forest to the Canal. We hiked a couple of miles in the woods, which made Pogo very happy. Click the photo below for a slide show of the day's activities.


After our hike at Twanoh, we drove about 6 miles to Belfair, a town of some 3 or 4 thousand people, I imagine. There are a number of sizeable stores there, and our purpose was to find some new sun glasses for me, because, as usual, I had left mine home. On the way back, we stopped in Union (see map) and Jill took some outstanding pictures of the Olympic Mountains, which are behind us at our campsite and not very photographable from our vantage point.

We left Union and made a stop at a little farmer's market located on the Skokomish Indian Reservation. We got some sweet corn and fresh oysters in the shell. You will note in the slide show, that I opened the oysters and we will have them for dinner, shortly after I put this post to bed. Enjoy the post. I am going to cook some oysters.