On the road up to the Hoh Rainforest there was a huge Spruce Tree featured.
In the rainforest there were a lot of berries.
Fungus growing on a tree.
Zoomed out shot of the fungus on the tree stump.
Moss grows all over the tree limbs.
Rachelle on the Spruce Nature Trail.
Jeff & Kelly & I each wandered off the trail at different points and had quiet time by the Hoh River. If you look really close you should be able to see them in this photo.
I rested for a bit in the sun on this log and listed to the river run by.
Reunited with Kelly & Jeff and back on the trail.
Kelly posing as we leave the Spruce Nature Trail.
This is a creek at the beginning of the Hall of Mosses trail.
Moss growing on a tree.
Jeff standing at about the halfway point of a fallen tree measuring 92 feet tall.
Kelly & Jeff
Rachelle
To my left, the roots of a fallen tree. To the right, the broken stump left from where it fell over.
Jeff
Kelly making a call at the moss covered phone booth.
Leaving the park we came accross this heard of Roosevelt Elk crossing the river to go into the woods.
Before hearing about the The Hoh Rainforest I didn’t even know what a temperate rainforest was. When you said rainforest to me I automatically pictured the Amazon and tropical plants and animals. In actuality, what makes a rainforest a rainforest is the rain, whether it be South America or the Pacific Northwest. Because of the Hoh Rainforest’s close proximity to the ocean, because it is sheltered by the mountains and because it gets about 140 inches of rain per year, it is definately a rainforest. Proof is in the mosses and lichen, which grow all over everything, including the ground.
