Trees of Mystery

A quintessential wacky wild and weird stop. I guess they figured big trees needed Paul Bunyan and Babe the big blue ox. It’s an adventure park type thing with a trim and walkways to see the big trees. We took advantage of some photo ops and then meandered on our way

Jim remembers being here many years ago with Willie & Jungle. We will have to search for those pictures and compare. I’m sure it has not changed much!

Big Tree

This is one of the few actually. Soooo trees do not get all the traffic. This one is not necessarily the biggest a park named early when people visited.

These are big trees!

Redwoods are taller than the Sequoias and not as think. It’s hard to compare when you can’t see the top!

Redwood National Park, CA

It’s an odd park that runs along Hwy 101 and is part national park and part state park. Then there are trees that are along the road and not in any designated park. There are so many tall trees and they are everywhere!

These were on the Cathedral Trees trail in the National Park. 

Samoa Beach, Eureka, CA

Not exactly beach weather, but we had fun walking and exploring. We found a few treasures!

He tried, but did not get her in the water. Good thing because it is cold!

Sam loves chasing seagulls. She has been running them off for years!

It’s Friday Night

And that means pizza. In this case we even got Costco pizza! That was not the original plan- we went to Costco in Eureka because it was the cheapest gas around. Gas in California is crazy expensive- on average $4.25 a gallon. We were happy to only pay $3.95! We were at Costco so we decided to get pizza and go to the beach for dinner.

The Caldera

It’s not  hard to imagine a 10,000+ foot mountain here that blew it’s top and left the ring of peaks and valleys behind. One last overlook before we head out of the park.