Our National Park Week virtual tour comes to a close at sunset on Ruby Beach, one of the many stunning corners of Olympic National Park in Washington state. A few miles from the shore is Destruction Island, where birds such as rhinoceros auklets may stop and rest after a day of gobbling up krill and squid in the cold Pacific waters. While the park includes miles of colorful Pacific coastline, it"s also famous for the Hoh Rainforest, an inland temperate forest notable for its towering old-growth hemlock and spruce trees.
Red skies at Ruby Beach
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
Festivus
-
Presidents Day
-
Detroit Industry Murals by Diego Rivera
-
Up in the Highlands
-
Where can you find a red fox?
-
Birds and bees, and why they re so important
-
Ponta da Piedade rock formations in Portugal
-
Presidents Day
-
Diamond Beach, Iceland
-
The old guard at Old San Juan
-
Vatican City with St. Peters Basilica
-
Happy trails for the 21st century
-
In search of roadside attractions on ‘America’s Highway’
-
Lighting it up for Vivid Sydney
-
Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
-
Thousand Islands region, St. Lawrence River, US-Canada border
-
A view fit for a queen
-
D-Day remembered
-
Celebrating Minnesota’s statehood
-
Getting to the bottom of the underwater waterfall
-
Moeraki Boulders, South Island, New Zealand
-
These laurels are hardy
-
Summer winds down in the Southern Hemisphere
-
In Sicily, history is everywhere
-
Saksun, Faroe Islands, Denmark
-
Mangrove Conservation Day
-
Lake Bled, Slovenia
-
Tafilalet oasis in Morocco
-
We did not invent this, honest
-
The view will stop you in your tracks