Dickerson Falls

After walking the Big Tree Trail this morning, I drove to Ueland Tree Farm to walk to Dickerson Falls, this was 2.2 miles with abou 220 ft of overall gain through a lovely forest. I took the forest trail to the junction with the forest road, a well maintained trail

Culvert along Dickerson Creek

Views along the short trail going down to Dickerson Falls

Dickerson Falls

Big Tree Trail

This morning I drove to the Rhododendron Preserve part of the Keta Legacy Foundation near Bremerton. I took the Big Tree Trail (1 mile round trip/150 ft loss/gain) through a beautiful forest. Some views through the forest heading down the switch backs.

Bridge over Wildcat Creek

The trail continues through the forest along Lost Creek

The Big Tree, cannot see the top due to branches in the way

Narada Falls and Christine Falls

After our hike at Paradise at Mt Rainier National Park, we stopped to see Narada Falls and Christine Falls. The trail to Narada Falls was very ice, so we wore our microspikes. 0.2 miles round trip with 100 ft of loss then gain. There was a rainbow at the bottom of the falls

From the pullout at Christine Falls, it is a very short walk along the road to see the Upper Falls and a short trail to see the lower falls

Foulweather Bluff Nature Preserve

After visiting the Point No Point Lighthouse Park, we drove over to the Foulweather Bluff Nature Preserve near the top of Hood Canal on the Kitsap Peninsula. A 0.3 mile trail goes through the forest to the beach. We walked part way along the beach for a total of 1.25 miles. Views in the forest along the trail:

We reached a beautiufl beach, and first walked to the north towards Foulwether Bluff, we did not go all the way to the preserve border

We then turned around and walked part way aong the beach to the south, again, we did not go all the way to the preserve border

Views of a large pond in the preserve

some of the birds we saw

Point No Point Lighthouse Park

We drove up to Hansvill to walk along the beach at Point No Point, we parked in the overflow parking lot and did a total of 3 miles. Views of the Point No Point Lighthouse

Views along the beach

zoom of Mt Peaks across Puget Sound

some of the birds we saw