AH, the RV'ing life...

Due to heavy rain on Saturday, we decided to stay "home".  During one less rainy spell, we dutifully took the RV off to the dump site to empty the holding tanks and refill the water tank.  Not a problem.  But when we got back and were resettling into our camp site, Luke made a rather ugly discovery....

Yes, a flat tire on an RV 75 miles from the nearest tire shop is ugly.  But Good Sam came to the rescue, the nice folks from a tire place came out and inflated the tire (slow leak due to the stem), and it only took 5 hours from our first call to the showing up....good thing we weren't in the middle of a busy intersection...but it did get fixed.

Because we still haven't explored the northern part of Olympic NP, we decided to stay one more day and delay Mt. Rainier by a day. Our site wasn't available for Monday night, so we moved...from the rainforest

To the Pacific Ocean shore!!!  Sunshine!!! (ok, it IS a sunny day, but trust me, that sun does not penetrate the rainforest!  I'm so happy!

Here is how the campsites look from the beach side.

The beach is again log filled, but a wide, long beach during low tide (this is near high tide).

Sunset over the Pacific.  Haven't seen that in a long time.  Not the best sunset ever, but a sunset over the Pacific all the same. As I type, there is the smallest crescent moon over the ocean.  Beautiful.  Yes, I'm a Pisces, a water child.

We will try again tomorrow to see the park near Port Angeles, then off to Mt. Rainier.