KALALOCH COASTLINE AND RUBY BEACH
Highway 101 runs for 12 miles along the coastline near the Kalaloch Lodge.
This is one of the special places on the Earth. You drive through a windswept
forest with frequent peaks of the ocean and beach. There are many offshore
island and rocks, including Destruction Island with a lighthouse on it. You can
visit the beautiful Fresnel lens of this lighthouse at the Westport Maritime
Museum.
The Kalaloch Lodge sits on a very lovely site. It is perched on the edge of a
cliff, overlooking a sweeping creek that has cut a canyon through to the
ocean. Beyond the creek you see the beach and ocean. We were here in
January. The restaurant was almost empty. We enjoyed a table next to one of
the view windows - the best view from any restaurant you're like to see.
Seven miles north of the lodge is the fabulous Ruby Beach. It has lots of
interesting features: a creek emptying into the ocean, bright red cedar logs
piled up on the beach, the windswept forest, seastack rocks and islands
offshore, lots of big rocks scattered in the surf, large flat polished rocks for
skipping, and some sandy areas to play in.
Back south of the lodge, we spent another delightful afternoon at Kalaloch
Beach 2 (after "Ruby" the beaches don't have imaginative names). A short
walk through a pretty forest brings you to the driftwood pile. After clambering
over the logs you come out on the wonderful, wide sandy beach. My son
enjoyed playing in a little stream that issued out from the base of the
driftwood pile onto the beach. After that, we climbed on the largest driftwood
log I've ever seen: it was probably a Spruce that I learned later in the Hoh
Rain Forest grow up to 300 feet tall in this area. A bald eagle flew overhead. I
was too slow with the camera to capture it.
by Bob Kelly
http://www.BobsPacificBeachHouse.com
Equally accessible from the Rialto Beach House:
http://www.RialtoBeachHouse.com
Highway 101 runs for 12 miles along the coastline near the Kalaloch Lodge.
This is one of the special places on the Earth. You drive through a windswept
forest with frequent peaks of the ocean and beach. There are many offshore
island and rocks, including Destruction Island with a lighthouse on it. You can
visit the beautiful Fresnel lens of this lighthouse at the Westport Maritime
Museum.
The Kalaloch Lodge sits on a very lovely site. It is perched on the edge of a
cliff, overlooking a sweeping creek that has cut a canyon through to the
ocean. Beyond the creek you see the beach and ocean. We were here in
January. The restaurant was almost empty. We enjoyed a table next to one of
the view windows - the best view from any restaurant you're like to see.
Seven miles north of the lodge is the fabulous Ruby Beach. It has lots of
interesting features: a creek emptying into the ocean, bright red cedar logs
piled up on the beach, the windswept forest, seastack rocks and islands
offshore, lots of big rocks scattered in the surf, large flat polished rocks for
skipping, and some sandy areas to play in.
Back south of the lodge, we spent another delightful afternoon at Kalaloch
Beach 2 (after "Ruby" the beaches don't have imaginative names). A short
walk through a pretty forest brings you to the driftwood pile. After clambering
over the logs you come out on the wonderful, wide sandy beach. My son
enjoyed playing in a little stream that issued out from the base of the
driftwood pile onto the beach. After that, we climbed on the largest driftwood
log I've ever seen: it was probably a Spruce that I learned later in the Hoh
Rain Forest grow up to 300 feet tall in this area. A bald eagle flew overhead. I
was too slow with the camera to capture it.
by Bob Kelly
http://www.BobsPacificBeachHouse.com
Equally accessible from the Rialto Beach House:
http://www.RialtoBeachHouse.com
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