Thursday as we were driving along through the trees we came across a place called the Trees of Mystery, with a great big 50 foot tall Paul Bunyan drawing us in. Rico had always wondered what that was all about, so we decided to go check it out.
It turned out to be a wonderful privately owned park that had huge, huge old redwoods. All along the path of these trees you learned about their history. We learned about how loggers chopped down many of these amazing old trees back in the 1950's! What a horrible thing to do, they are so old and so wonderful! The area was purchased back in the late 1960's in order to preserve them from any more logging, thank goodness! Some of these trees are as old as 3000 years! We can't even imagine that!
At the end of the mile or so walk, we took a gondola ride up a mountain, where we were just about at the tree line, what a wonderful view! We took many pictures (of course) and made our way back down.
It was very interesting to learn about the history of these old trees, and we highly recommend a trip to anyone!
We carried on down south, driving through the Redwood forest, it's very, very large, for many, many miles you drive through these beautiful trees, all different sizes and shades of green, obviously the ages of these trees vary by many, many, maybe even hundreds of years!
We stopped an an rv park still within the trees. The place was called Stone Lagoon. We were early enough that we were able to take a small hike. It started to rain on us at this time, and it got harder and harder and never stopped until some time in the night!
We did some laundry in the rain, had a nice yummy meal, and again went to bed! Another day, over already!
It turned out to be a wonderful privately owned park that had huge, huge old redwoods. All along the path of these trees you learned about their history. We learned about how loggers chopped down many of these amazing old trees back in the 1950's! What a horrible thing to do, they are so old and so wonderful! The area was purchased back in the late 1960's in order to preserve them from any more logging, thank goodness! Some of these trees are as old as 3000 years! We can't even imagine that!
At the end of the mile or so walk, we took a gondola ride up a mountain, where we were just about at the tree line, what a wonderful view! We took many pictures (of course) and made our way back down.
It was very interesting to learn about the history of these old trees, and we highly recommend a trip to anyone!
We carried on down south, driving through the Redwood forest, it's very, very large, for many, many miles you drive through these beautiful trees, all different sizes and shades of green, obviously the ages of these trees vary by many, many, maybe even hundreds of years!
We stopped an an rv park still within the trees. The place was called Stone Lagoon. We were early enough that we were able to take a small hike. It started to rain on us at this time, and it got harder and harder and never stopped until some time in the night!
We did some laundry in the rain, had a nice yummy meal, and again went to bed! Another day, over already!
2 comments:
Is it hard to wash clothes in the rain? It must have come down really hard! :-)
very funny! :)
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