Day 2- La Push

It rained all night so I woke up worried that everything would be wet. Luckily my freshly rewaterproofed tent held up. Most my gear has been patched up from my first thru hike. Lots of it was second hand then. I packed up and carefully hung the wet tent off my pack to let it dry throughout the day. As I began walking down more beaches looking at beach treasures the wildlife began to appear. I saw deer, bald eagles, seals, sea otters, and tourists. The day went by extremely fast and before I knew it I was at the campsite I received a permit for. As usual I decided to keep going and live life on the edge and avoid the authorities. I continued on and made it to the banks of the Quillayute River. I wanted to get to the other side but there was no bridge. Therefore I tried to hitchhike on the river and get a fisherman to take me across. This was unsuccessful but in the process of navigating boulders to get their attention I face planted into the rocks and came away with some bad looking battle wounds. Eventually I took the long way and went over the bridge and around to La Push. It is a pretty interesting little Indian reservation town and the restaurant was closed so I pushed ahead and got a few more miles in. Today introduced a new thing into the terrain of the trail, steep cliffs and role ladders. I did not do much preparation for this therefore was very surprised when I first came to one. Oftentimes the cliffs won't even have a ladder just a knotted rope to pull your self up on. It makes it interesting and difficult. Since I had to learn the hard way that the tides do matter, I get to sleep in tomorrow to catch the low tide around the upcoming headlands to avoid swimming in the ocean again.