Great visit to Seattle and the NorthWest.

We are still in Seattle, winding down our trip. The weather is not always the best, as it is to be expected this time of year. Mostly overcast, sometimes a light drizzle, but adding up the time we lucked out and had a good day and a half of sun.

In the past few days we visited Northwest Trek, a wonderful wildlife park on the way to Mt. Rainier. Unfortunately the Mountain is closed due to the weather and earlier floods, but we had a great time (photos will be posted later).

Today we took the ferry to Bainbridge Island and drove to Port Townsend and Port Angeles. We liked Port Townsend's old Victorian town. Very quaint and full of little stores. Port Angeles is bigger and did not impress us much. The weather had to do with it as it was cold and gray.

From Port Angeles we went up into Olympic National Park's Hurricane Ridge. The weather at Port Angeles was awful but the rangers assured us that the top was clear. The drive was hard passing through the clouds on a narrow winding two-lane road, where visibility for the first 30 minutes was down to about 40 feet in front of the car, made for an interesting trip. Once we crossed the low clouds reaching the top at 5200 feet it was sunny and not too cold. The view was awesome. Unfortunately the 45-minute drive down was harder than going up as the fog got thicker and visibility was extremely limited. All-in-all it was worth it.

Once leaving the Olympic Peninsula, the weather improved and it cleard up by Bainbridge Island. This made the usually nice ferry ride, all the better as we had the afternoon sun right on the Seattle skyline. Can't way to process the photos into my Seattle Gallery in a few days. Still a couple of days to go, then back home to the palm trees.