Last Thanksgiving Jeremy and I took a long trip up north to visit the Redwood National Forest up by Eureka. On the way up, we drove along the "Avenue of the Giants" and saw some amazingly huge Redwood trees. I can't get the formatting right, so you will just have to deal with some funky alignment.
This particular tree shows a few interesting facts about history. It is call the "Immortal Tree" because someone tried to chop it down, hence the axe. The fish shows the height to which the water in a flood several years back reach. In the picture below you will see the creek that rose over 20 feet to get up to that fish.
And we weren't necessarily in a valley, so this mean that there was A LOT of water everywhere for this tree to be so far under water.
This is Fern Gulch - the walls were made of ferns!
This was my FAVORITE part of the trip. We happened to be at Fort Bragg over the King tide, which caused some HUGE waves. It was SO pretty!
A little perspective - see the red dot on the right. That is an adult person! BIG WAVES!!
On our way back home, we stopped over at a small park and we found a very interesting tree there - an albino redwood tree. How can that be, you may ask?
Redwood trees grow from the same root system. Many times you will see them in a ring around where the "parent" tree has lived and died a long time ago, but the young trees remain. This particular albino tree can not complete the process of photosynthesis because it doesn't have the chlorophyl (hence why it is white) in its cells. It is basically a leech that pulls nutrients from the root systems of the parent and sibling trees so that it can survive. Crazy, huh?!
Stay tuned! I hope to get more caught up this week - we will see :)
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