Avenue of the Giants, California

Hi All,

How are you? Good I do hope! =)

Today we drove down from Oregon into California through what they call "The Avenue of the Giants" - it is a national park that has Redwood trees in it bigger than you can imagine trees can be!

Before we left we had an early morning walk on the beach, and on the way down we saw some amazing coast line, but the redwood trees very much stole the day. We got there just as the mid afternoon sun began trickling though the leaves, it wasn't hot but it wasn't cold either.

The tallest tree we saw standing was 383 feet tall, and as you will see below, had a giant circumference. Mum and Meish stretched themselves out and held hands around it's trunk but didn't even cover 1/4 of the base of the tree. There were many fallen trees that had their root system exposed and we saw one fallen tree that had a root system at least 3 times taller than I was (it was laying down exposed). Some of the trees in the park are more than 1,000 years old.

It was just amazing. Most of the good photos are in files that are too big for me to put on this computer, but I shall put a few below anyhow...the really good ones shall have to wait until I am back home with my computer! Okay, thats it from me! I am exhausted, its time for my beauty sleep!

Hope alls well with you

jess xoxo

Mum and Dad walking on the beach this morning

Haven't posted a pic of me in a few days, so here I am.

Mum and Meish

Half the root system for one tree, the other half was broken off in the fall

Looking up

Meish trying to count the rings on this tree - the tree broke in half when it fell so this is about the half way up the tree

Mum and Meish trying to hug the Giant Tree!