I remember moving my Chicago friend out to Seattle. We cross out of Idaho and he goes “I thought WA was green?”. We got to have a nice long chat about rain shadows, lol

Kalaloch’s Beach 4 has some nice tide pools if you want to go all the way out to the coast

Thanks to Grays Harbor, I don’t think there needed to be much settlement on Washington’s coast to link the Puget Sound to California.

Being like the largest harbor between here and San Francisco, it also had Chehalis River providing a direct route into the prairies of the South Sound.