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Ruby Beach
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6 reviews for Ruby Beach
Seeing the sun rise here in winter will change your life.
Just do it.
What an amazing beach that puts your soul at peace as the waves crash against the shore and rocks.
It's a short walk down from the parking lot to the beach that most anyone can handle.
When arriving at the bottom of the walk, there are two separate ways you can access the beach, either to the right and walking out onto a side part and then onto the beach or straight ahead where you have to climb over a whole bunch of driftwood to get onto the beach.
We were lucky enough to arrive when the tide was out, so we were able to explore some of the rocks.
Then we joked about if we fell and had to go tell the respective parents of so and so to explain they had cracked their head open while climbing the rocks who would we send vs ourselves because we didn't want to deal with the backlash.
The turn off is clearly marked and would highly recommend a quick turn of off Hwy 101 to check out this beach.
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Beautiful beach, nice small walk down to it on a well maintained path. Great family beach. as someone else said, lots of stacked rocks from other beach visitors. Colder than you'll find many places but full of raw power.
Last time we went down my, now hubby but then not yet fiance, and I ran across a drawing in the sand that still amazes me... it said Matt loves Kerri, our names, but with another city and state written after it. Had we arrived 10 minutes later we would have missed it because the tide was coming in. So it will always be a special place for us.
AMAZING place to be during a small storm!
Someone once told me that the seventh wave to hit the beach is bigger that the six preceding waves. I've searched the internet and found few references to this phenomena, or myth. Standing on the shore of Ruby beach I picked a big wave and counted the waves that rolled behind it. Maybe 100 or so waves later, time lost in the natural pattern of things, I sadly concluded that I couldn't see, feel, the seventh wave as bigger. I stayed watching the waves, no longer counting. Counting seemed like a new-fangled modern thing layered on to of the being of waves. Each wave unique, each wave with predictable components of foam, direction and a hypnotic rhythm. Seven days in a week, a predictable daily journey to work yet each day is unique. Waves unseen continue, are none-the-less beautiful, noisy, cold and enticing.
Ruby Beach is well sign-posted from Route 101, with adequate car-parking facilities in December and a short walk down a wooded hillside bank from the car park to the beach.
Alone on the cold December pacific coast beach was both the antithesis of being in the middle of hectic, heated, work activity and the hypnotic security of predictability. I have walked in the Northern Sea's warmed by the winter sunshine and the monstrous beauty of the Teeside nuclear power plant. I have watched the sun set of the Basque Atlantic ocean warming my heart and the evening with fresh Beaujolais, garlic cheese, baguettes, pale skinned dark haired, blue-eyed, motorcycling English boys.
At twenty-four taking a long summer lunch break from work in the company of a beautiful Irish boy. Sat on a canal bank. Our feet dangling in the cooling water. He asked "what do you want from life?" I didnt answer with "jet-fighter pilot" of age 12 or the Architect of age 15... ...impulsively I blurted "I want to live by the Sea". He laughed. On an Island like Britain it is easy to live by the Sea. We were sat in the heart of England, we couldn't be further from the sea. Later, he took me to the nearest sea, to The Wash. A mystical place. A place of love and death, of madness and Serenity. Nearly 20 years later I know that fate has favoured me. Never having lived more than 2 hours drive from the sea.
My wealth is that this simple, powerful, life desire has been so regularly sated.
Their number unimportant, I count the waves on the coast, at work and in my dreams. Daily.
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This is the place to watch waves really crash into the shore bringing with them stacks of driftwood. There is no gentle scenery here. Be prepared.
This gorgeous beach is out on the Olympic Peninsula. The entire area is gorgeous - rivers, rainforest, beaches. Ruby Beach has amazing rock formations on the beach and out in the water. Sometimes you'll find stacked rocks (so many rocks here) that another has left. There are tidal pools and plenty of wildlife. The weather is often rainy, but this beach is great rain or shine - and you will have it mostly to yourself in the off season and in the rain.