Well, she was sitting in the car with the two kids down in the parking lot. So I went back down and said, “Do you want to go over to Olympic? There’s a little problem with the water.” And she says, “Sure, let’s go to Olympic!” And so I went back up and told him. Well, we got to Olympic and the water was black all of the time we were there.
Jean: It was clay, you know. And whenever you’d start using the water, this clay, this dark grey clay you have up there would fall in and you couldn’t even see your hands in the wash basin. You know it was really black.
But even with all that we had two other kids while we were there, born in the Forks Hospital. She was kept kind of busy. It’s still our favorite park, it really is. Now Crater Lake, of course, your first Park and particularly when it’s a park like Crater Lake has a special place in your heart. But Olympic is really our favorite place. And it’s because, I think, of the variety of things you have there. You’ve got the coast, you’ve got the ocean strip, you’ve got the mountains, you’ve got the glaciers, you’re got the whole bit you see. Fantastic place. Have you ever been up there?
No.
Get there sometimes soon as possible. Anyway when we went to Olympic (just as a matter of interest) the park had only been established for thirteen years. See, it was established in 1939, we went there in 1952.
