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We had a family trip out west a few years back. My daughter's choice of things to see was a movie studio, my son's, Disneyland, my wife, Sea World, mine, Sequoia National Park. My kids thought my choice so boring. "It's just a bunch of trees, who cares..." At least the Feds thought enough of them at the beginning of the last century to send troops to protect them from the timber companies.
I hope to see the giant Redwoods again before they are all dead.
Fun read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Lumber_Company
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Always impressive! Was there years ago-my BIL lives near Grants Pass, OR and was a 45 minute drive from his house.
Nice pix! Thx for posting.
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We had a family trip out west a few years back. My daughter's choice of things to see was a movie studio, my son's, Disneyland, my wife, Sea World, mine, Sequoia National Park. My kids thought my choice so boring. "It's just a bunch of trees, who cares..." At least the Feds thought enough of them at the beginning of the last century to send troops to protect them from the timber companies.
I hope to see the giant Redwoods again before they are all dead.
Fun read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Lumber_Company
Hope you dragged the family to a sequoia grove - redwoods are pretty and impressive, but the biggest giant sequoia stops you in your tracks - I've never heard of anyone not being amazed - even the most bored kid on earth.
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I did! We all got one choice (I listed them) that everyone else had to live with. And I was the driver/chauffeur of our RV so where I went, everyone else followed.
hal wrote:
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We had a family trip out west a few years back. My daughter's choice of things to see was a movie studio, my son's, Disneyland, my wife, Sea World, mine, Sequoia National Park. My kids thought my choice so boring. "It's just a bunch of trees, who cares..." At least the Feds thought enough of them at the beginning of the last century to send troops to protect them from the timber companies.
I hope to see the giant Redwoods again before they are all dead.
Fun read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Lumber_Company
Hope you dragged the family to a sequoia grove - redwoods are pretty and impressive, the the biggest giant sequoia stops you in your tracks - I've never heard of anyone not being amazed - even the most bored kid on earth.
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Somewhere along the coast, there used to be Redwood big enough that there is a tunnel through it that you can drive through.
It fell. Might be others. Even in the '60's it was blocked so you couldn't actually drive anything nor even walk through it.
We drove through one in the summer of 2000.
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The Drive Through Tree is still there....
There was another one, that did topple many years ago.
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“The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.”
John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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Great to hear you had a good trip and I enjoyed seeing the pictures.
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Looks like you had a good time.
Did you buy one of those little redwood seedings that come in a plastic tube? My parents bought me one when we were in the redwoods many years ago. We took it home, planted it (it was about a foot tall) and in about 50 years it's up to 75-80 feet tall and about 12 feet around at chest height.
The pictures are great, but they never really do justice to the quiet of an old growth grove.
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Ferndale is about many things.
The cemetery to the east side of town on the rising slope with the dates changing as you go up.
The seasonal boat race and museum in town with sample boats.
http://kineticgrandchampionship.com/
The road to the south and the Lost Coast. Check out Honeydew,CA on Google Earth for the pot plantations. It's a quiet and the general store has been in several movies. Don't stay long.
It's a great place to go in the heat of the summer as it will be cool. It will be a little cooler in the winter. It might not rain.
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