Tuesday, June 24th, 2025
It wouldn’t be a trip to the redwoods without seeing the redwoods. After breakfast we headed to the CA redwoods and my first thought was, it doesn’t matter if the last hike looked just like the hike I was on, there is something about the redwoods which takes your breath away. These trees were around when Caeser was ruling Rome. There is a woodsy smell, a dampness to the coastal air and the size of the trees are amazing.
We didn’t have the Guide Along app on our last trip to the redwoods, a lot of the places we were headed to we saw before but we enjoyed seeing it all again. Along the way we learned a lot about the area and the conservation of the redwoods. It is sad that only a small percentage of the original redwood forests still exist. The area that the Ewok village along with the area where the final shots of ET were filmed are gone, the areas were logged.
The last time I was here, knowing that the trees date back to biblical times, I felt as if I was in an area that was timeless. If my grandparents had driven through the park, they would have seen the same trees and it wouldn’t have looked much different.
At one stop, after we parked, two classic 50s cars pulled up and I thought, yes, we are in an area that is timeless! Not too long after that, we saw a car that was even older.
We were also lucky enough to spot a Bannana slug – a slug that is bright yellow, thus the name!
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