It is hard to describe the spectacular day we have had today. The Redwood Forest is amazing. Some facts about redwood trees...Height to 379ft...up to 2000 yrs. old...diameter to 22 ft at breast height...bark is 12 in. thick.
Some people we met told us of a man in 1800's that came across these majestic trees and thought it was Divine providence that he cut them down. Of course he made millions of dollars. Fortunately there were people that had some foresight to save the redwoods. They started a fund around 1910 by inviting wealth people to California and had them tour these majestic trees. This started a fund that bought acres of forest to save for the future.
When we can, we will down load pictures.
The best part of the day was when we turned onto a road and found a herd of elk. Gene has video with sound of the two males fighting and clashing antlers. The one male tore the right side of antler off the other male who walked away defeated.The male who won the fight drove the losers herd to his on the other side of the meadow. The footage was so good we made a copy for the kids who have the antler. We have pictures of kids with there father who went out after the herd left and found the broken antler. I have said nothing about the ocean drive which was spectacular or the old farm house that was a camouflaged radar installation during WWII. What a great day, again.
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