These photos are from an impromptu photo shoot I did in Washington state with two friends while I was traveling cross-country last summer.
My traveling companion and I stopped in Seattle on our way to California to visit with my friend Anna. We spent a few days exploring Seattle and hanging with my long time childhood friend who I hadn’t seen in over 5 years. As we got ready to leave and plan our rout we discussed going through Olympic National forest on our way, we had been recommended by a few folks to visit The Olympic National Park(/Forest) while in Washington so we decided to go on our way out of town. We invited Anna not expecting her to be able to actually make it happen because we couldn’t offer a ride back to Seattle but to our delight she accepted after finding a ride from the near by town back to Seattle from a friend who just so happened to be driving to Seattle that night! It was meant to be! The more the merrier!
It was mid summer, the sun was shining and it was hot! We wanted to find a body of water to put our body’s in! We had no specific destination at the Olympic Forest in mind (It is very, very big over 628,000 acres!) and the only criteria was 1. being in nature and 2. finding water to swim in, in nature. So, we looked at a map, found what looked to be water, packed a picnic and packed our selves and my sweet dog into the car! About two hours later we were entering the forest! It was one of the most beautiful sights I’ve seen with my eyes. Once in the national forest we still had about a 45 minute drive to our beach.
When we got there I was even more in awe. It was a beach, sand and all but like a beach I’ve never seen before. We were in the woods, completely surrounded by trees. When we parked we walked about a half mile into a clearing to the beach. A big beautiful body of blue magnificent water with mountains just beyond us. To the left nothing but beauty, to my right beauty, in my front veiw and behind me just breath taking pure natural BEAUTY. This was one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been to.
I was in awe.
We had a wonderful and relaxing time. We ate, we swam, we sun bathed, we relaxed, we chilled out and as the sun started to set we took a walk. We came to a part of the beach where the ground became very swamp like. Super muddy- my friends had started painting their body’s with the mud.
With the sun shining down on us and the feeling of pure gratitude to this beautiful, incredible place we just so happened to stumble upon which inspired me to get out the camera and ask my friends to do an impromptu photo shoot.
We hadn’t planned it at all which made it all that much better!
It was a seriously epic day and one of the funnest ones of the trip!
Here are is the gallery!! Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy!
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