Friday, August 8, 2008

Day with the Redwoods-Aug 7

Hey kids--can any of you tell us who this guy is?? Tomorrow we will start back inland further. Will be going towards Yosmite.
This is especially for Dawson, Jasmine, Alia and Owen. A seagull posed just for you!!
A lighthouse on a small island. They said we can walk to it if the tide is out. It was low yet, but would have needed to walk through water, so we enjoyed from the coast.
Coast line picture
Mel climbed up into the inside of these trees. He looks small.
I think I enjoyed all the fern growing in the forest along with the trees. Here I climbed up to get next to this tree.
Entering the Redwoods. We thought some of the trees were big, then we saw bigger and BIGGER! We did go on a tour with a ranger just to learn more of the redwood tree, then broke away from the tour and did our own hiking. Again--out of this world, made us feel like we were in a dream..
Made it to California about 1 pm (this time) We drove over the Cascades for about 50 mile on a very scenic route, very curvy and winding, sharp curves. Enough to make a person that gets car sick mind the curves towards the end.Thankful for salted peanuts and diet pepsi!! The scenery was so pretty in spite of the stomach!!

1 comment:

Marlene said...

Gloria, it looks like you have a jacket on-what kind of temps are you having there? Keep on enjoying your trip. The pics are really good. We follow everyday.