Forks and LaPush are still getting Twilight Series tourists on the hunt for vampires. Here, the park ranger is checking on the current "Vampire Threat Level" as a local kid returns the pointer to the red "DANGER" level following a biting command from his dad.

The long drive from Seattle is worth it. We did the bulk of our beach cleanup a day before the official start of the cleanup seeing beautiful weather on Friday April 18th. Spectacular sea stacks rewarded us. Bad weather was predicted for later in the weekend, so we didn't backpack the couple miles up the beach to camp above high water near Hole-in-the-wall. Car camping at Mora Campground proved a good choice as we found out later.

Here I'm setting out over the drift logs all loaded up. It is satisfying to carry out a large load of detritus, though footing was tricky on the bushwhack to get past Ellen Creek. In addition to a few big items, we picked up endless styrofoam fragments and bits of other plastic. The amount of tiny plastic waste floating up on the waves is discouraging. At least reports were that the beaches were clearer than many years earlier. I hope that's a trend. Still, four of us brought back about 15 bags of stuff in two part days of work.

This is from the YouTube video URL below the photo taken on a pleasure hike to 2nd Beach on Sunday. The rock is about 20' tall with the wave gushing another 10' above that. The iPhone is on extreme optical zoom. This was at low tide. We wonder what it would have been like during the night had we camped just above the driftwood line at high tide with that kind of surf running at Rialto Beach. No wonder we stayed well off the coast sailing south in 2011!