WASHINGTON

Olympic National Park, Seattle and Anacortes

By Foreign Natives

July 16^th, 2015

After an unbeatable time in Oregon we entered Washington driving up the coast along the Pacific Ocean. This is our last state before entering Canada, and the last bit of US West Coast we had left.

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Washington’s continental coast comes down to pretty much a single huge park: the Olympic National Park, with redwood forests that end abruptly on wild beaches. The water is cold, but the waves are empty!

Beaches, lakes, mountains, forests…even though we didn’t find it as spectacular as other american national parks, the Olympics have a very diverse and unique landscape with plenty of opportunities to enjoy the nature, from trail running to lake diving and barbecuing, if that’s a thing.

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Spending so much time in the nature allows us to have moments like this, waking up to a morning dive in Lake Crescent.

Not having a proper house has it’s big disadvantages, such as not having a nice table to sit around and have dinner, but we always end up finding our nice little spots of beautiful intimacy.

After the Olympics we headed to Seattle via ferry, a city that welcomed us with great weather, cafés, cinemas and breweries. After all, we also need our dose of civilization every once in a while.

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A little bit tired of traveling, we decided to spend our last three or four days before heading to Canada in Anacortes, a little town better known for being the ferry port to the San Juan Islands. It’s a quiet and relaxed fishing village, where we spent the time working, relaxing and making us clean and comfortable, even with the limitations of living in a van.