Turns out our pollyanna “what-if a miracle happens” hopes for Washaway Beach weren’t so far fetched after all thanks to another favorite day trip of ours.
Located along HWY-101 in Olympic National Park, Ruby Beach is arguably one of the most beautiful places on earth. A little hard to get to, but boasting a giant haystack, the thing I find most interesting is exactly the thing that’s saving Washaway Beach; an abundance of small-ish, flat, round rocks.
Perfect for stacking cairns to the sky, they are (unfortunately) also perfect for artists who drag bucketfuls home to paint and sell online. I say unfortunately because having visited over the years the volume of missing rocks is increasingly noticeable and extra unfortunate now that we know they’re the magic ingredient saving Ruby Beach from becoming North Cove.
