Northwestern Olympic Peninsula
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The Northwest Olympic Peninsula is a beautiful place to visit, but only if you like to see bald eagles soaring above you, dramatic, rocky coastline and sea stacks with wide, sandy beaches strewn with the remains of huge trees washed down from the rivers onto the beaches, and a raw, wild natural beauty that is mostly absent on many parts of our country's coasts due to development and over-development.
You'll find beaches with strange names--First, Second and Third Beaches, as well as Ruby Beach, named for flecks of garnet that sometimes glisten red in the sun. You'll find huge, moss and lichen-draped trees in the temperate rainforest called Hoh Rainforest. Cape Flattery, the most northwesterly point of the 48 contiguous states is here and hosts pelagic cormorants and pigeon guillemots in their cliffside homes. Sea lions laze in the sun on nearby Tatoosh Island. It's an incredible place!
You'll find beaches with strange names--First, Second and Third Beaches, as well as Ruby Beach, named for flecks of garnet that sometimes glisten red in the sun. You'll find huge, moss and lichen-draped trees in the temperate rainforest called Hoh Rainforest. Cape Flattery, the most northwesterly point of the 48 contiguous states is here and hosts pelagic cormorants and pigeon guillemots in their cliffside homes. Sea lions laze in the sun on nearby Tatoosh Island. It's an incredible place!