Seaquest State Park/Mt St. Helens Welcome Center 5/31

Campsite 36 (Oisin our RV in the background)
This park was expensive for a site with no hook-ups. They charge extra if you're from out of state. Our site was great though. The RV was parked next to the one way road and there was a short path to a glen area where there was a fire pit and a picnic table, with an area for a tent. It was very beautiful. We parked and biked over to the Mount St. Helens Welcome Center and spent a couple of hours there. We watched an incredible movie about the May 1980 eruptions and the months leading up to the explosive event. It really moved me. I walked around the center and read every display, feeling emotional about all the devastation.  We went outside the center which closed behind us and walked their loop trail. The trail goes out over a water area
Loop trail at the Welcome Center
by way of a wooden walkway that goes for about 1/2 mile. Kind of like the walk way at Big Bear Lake.  The water in this area is covered with miles of lily pads. We saw a lot of this type of landscape on the way to the camp along the highway. Like a swamp with lily pads on one side of the road. I'm researching into whether the volcano eruption had something to do with this area.

We returned to camp about 7pm on our bikes and Darrel build out first campfire since O'Neal Park. It really is a great spot. We even took a shower at the campsite showers. We rode our bikes around to check out the other sites and the ones with full hook ups were all together with few trees close by in a big meadow. We realized by not getting one of those spots we lucked out. When we went online to get a site there was only one available, with no hook ups. It turned out to be a beautiful spot.

We finally named our RV. We wanted an Irish name as we have a Coachman Leprechaun. Geraldine gave us the name Oisin pronounced "osh een". She said it meant dream which seemed a good name. When I looked it up I found a different meaning which worked a well. Either way it's now Oisin.

"MEANING: The son of the legendary warrior Fionn Mac Cool (read the legend) and the goddess Sive. His mother was turned into a deer by the Dark Druid and she reared him in the forest until he was seven years old. When Fionn was out hunting he found the child and recognising him as his son, gave him the name oisin””little deer.”” He is best remembered for his love for “”Niamh of the Golden Hair”” with whom he spent 300 years in Tir-na-nOg, (“”Land of Eternal Youth””) (read the legend). (Read the legend of Oisin and Niamh.) A very popular name again in Ireland."

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