Storm watching at the Olympic coast

Rialto Beach

Last week I had the pleasure of spending two days at a conference held at the Skamania Lodge (Water and Land Use in the Pacific Northwest) and then head to the Bogachiel River by way of Olympia.  What a great cross-section of the maritime Pacific Northwest.  A Pacific storm came ashore during the time I was in the Columbia Gorge, bringing heavy rains there, as well as in Olympia where we spent Friday night.  By the time we arrived at Forks it was sunny and beautiful, go figure.  We went straight to Rialto Beach and enjoyed a few hours of some great storm watching under sunny skies and no wind.  Very entertaining.  The rains hit the Olympic Peninsula on Monday - hard - just in time for us to head south back to Eugene, where it was dry.  A great few days for roaming around the region.

Rialto Beach storm watching

Bogachiel River cobbles