We got one of the free 50 permits available each day to the Tall Trees road and trail. Some of the worlds tallest redwoods are down here. It is humbling to walk among these trees that have been here for 1000s of year, since the crusades some of them. They have lived thru fires, being struck by lightening, floods, man etc. They just make scar tissue and carry on. Makes our life feel really short. The tallest was 370 feet tall.
Above are burls, burnt trees, octopus limbed trees. There are mushrooms, banana slugs, things I don't even know what are.
What is that to the right?
It was a wet, mossy forest
The last photo on the right is a waterfall in the roots of a huge redwood. Even the fallen trees had moss and ferns growing on them.
This last picture is in my opinion the notches of a loggers count for the day.
These are Roosevelt elk. The biggest species of elk. The biggest herd of them is in this area. I am so naive that I thought the rocky mountian elk were the only kind. I never knew what a lagoon or an estuary was before.
This is agate beach. We want to head down there and collect some agates before we go.
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