Dan B
Friends invited us to go camping with them at a State Park on the Hood Canal just a few miles southeast of the Olympic Mountains, locally called The Olympics. This is at the southwest corner of the Kitsap Peninsula.
We were excited, especially since we were a ‘bit’ rusty, not having gone camping for a couple decades.
It was timed to see the Perseid Meteor Shower. We found a neighbor to feed the cats and water the many vegetables and flowers in containers and unearthed loads of backpacking equipment that had never been used. It seemed many times we’d never get it together but we did, for the most part.
The east slope of the Olympics ruse abruptly above the Puget Sound lowlands. My understanding is they lie on top of a mound shaped mass of rock called a Batholith. The Hood Canal is a hook shaped inlet with the majority running in a straight line north south on the western boundary of the Puget Sound lowlands. The water in this view is Tahuya Lake. There are several lakes, including a couple with tiny islands, on a plateau surrounding Green Mountain ridge. It’s 600 feet above sea level. It felt strange to drive up a steep hill to find beautiful lakes.
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