Despite driving through pouring rain not 20 minutes before we arrived at Ozette, the weather turned warm and sunny for us. We began our trip on a couple of miles of very slippery boardwalk which wound through a lush and moist forest. Cedar slipped and fell into the foliage beside the boardwalk once, and Ali came close a couple of times too
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A couple of miles into the hike the forest opened to a boggy grassland interspersed with trees and bushes. About half a mile later the forest returned. We're not quite sure why the difference in terrain from one mile to the next, but it made things interesting
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Nearing the beach we passed through an open forest with many downed trees
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Green grass, uncrowded beach and sparkling water, not too shabby
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When we first started, the beach was almost entirely covered in kelp. Sometimes 2 or 3 feet deep
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The kelp thinned out but other things had drifted onto the beach
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Over the course of the trip we ran into several nearly tame deer. We came with 10 feet of two
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During high tide, rounding the headlands was difficult. The rocks could be slippery from seaweed and water
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We climbed over one headland with the help of a rope
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