We had a short ride to Klamath, California and only spent one night there. But what a day we had!! The Redwood National Park!! Here’s some final pictures of the Oregon coast.
We stopped at the Trees of Mystery. It was a walk through the Redwood forest. How awesome!!
The trees are HUGE!! Just think…some of them are about 3000 years old!! They were on this earth when Jesus walked on the earth!! Mind blowing!!
This tree is 19 feet in diameter!
We took a gondola ride up through the forest.
Other pics.
This is one of my favorite pictures…looking down the road through the redwoods.
Onward to Garberville, California! We are still in the Redwoods!! Awesome!
We drove through, both ways, the Avenue of the Giants. It’s a 31 mile, narrow road with 51,222 acres of magnificent redwood groves!! Another “Wow!” moment!
Obviously, these pictures don’t do justice to the magnificence of the Redwoods!
One of the things we HAD to do is to drive through a redwood tree! This is what it looked like when we drove through.
And what it looked like when John drove through!
This tree is called the chimney tree. The inside of the tree burned out, but not the outside.
It’s hard to see here, but there are sea lions down by the sandbar feeding on salmon going up the river.
We took a drive over to Shelter Cove, on the coast. It was quite the drive…curvy, narrow, hairpin curves,…for 30 miles! But when we got there, it was worth it. This was the last time we’d be on the coastline for several days. Our trip is taking us inland.
One of the highlights was the Black Sand Beach. Beautiful!
There was also a lighthouse.
Bigfoot has been sighted in the Redwoods several times! Thankfully, we didn’t see him!
But,…we did see a bear in our campground!! It came into the fish cleaning table.
Hydrangeas!
It’s impossible to show the full beauty and size of these Redwood trees. We are still seeing them in our campgrounds and along the highway. There’s only one way to describe it all. This is by Michael W. Smith:
Our God is an awesome God
He reigns from heaven above
With wisdom, power, and love
Our God is an awesome God.
Yes He is.
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