The redwoods are big, I don't mean just a little big, I mean like over the top Paul Bunyan huge. The trees are the tallest trees in the world, they grow to heights of about 350 feet tall and have a diameter of 26ft. The seeds are about the size of an olive. The trees grown in southern OR and northern CA only and no more then 25 miles inland. I am sure this is because of the weather which I will tell you about in a minute.

Dang, I sound like a teacher trying to tell everybody about these trees, so let me just say they are so big pictures can not do them justice. They have been standing, some of them, for 2000 years. That means these trees were here when Jesus was. That is a long time, no wonder they are so big!!!

The trees all grew in groves, I guess because they would drop their cones and so they just grow near each other. We took a walk up a trail into one of the groves and it was so quiet with all these super giant trees around it made you realize how minimal we really are in this big world.

We are staying in the town of Klamath which is the home to the Yurok Indian Tribe, basically the whole town is tribal land. We went to their welcome center and the Indian lady in there was so friendly and taught us all about their tribe etc. For example, this is salmon spawning season and before a tribal member can catch salmon for their family from the Klamath River, they must first catch 3 and turn them into the elders to be registered. Then, they can fish or throw nets for their own family. Our campground is right down the street from a tribal ceremonial area. They are working on it and getting it all cleaned up and ready for a "brush dance".

I love watching the sea lions play and catch the fish also. The pictures I posted don't show all the people along the shore fishing. There were over 50 people fishing and the sea lions were playing around them, probably eating the fish they were hooking.

Be sure and look at the pictures I posted you will see where we drove through the bottom of a tree, all the trees you drive through are on private land and they charge you to go through them. (it was only 5 dollars to drive through the one we went to) The ones in the state and national parks are left in tact and not cut on unless they begin to hinder the traffic on a road. Look at the picture with Larry standing in the hollow base of a tree too. The bottom hollow part of the tree was at least 8 foot across, and the hollow part went up at least 16 ft high. We decided if we were homeless, we would turn one of these hollow bases into our home. Let's hope we never have to test that.

This would be a good place to live homeless though. Inland, meaning over the mountains the temperatures today were in the high 90s, but along the coast they stay in the 60s and 70s year round and the night lows range from 50 to 60 year round. You could not ask for better weather all the time, however, they do get an average of 108 inches of rain yearly. So I would hope my hollow tree wouldn't leak too bad.

Will write more the next time we move somewhere else.

Hello Will and Dee, I know you guys are reading this cause you tell me.