Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Avenue of the Giants-Ancient Redwoods

Today we took a road trip to tour the Redwood Forest - Avenue of the Giants-Ancient Redwoods...

Scenic pictures along the 40 mile drive on Hwy 101/Redwood Hwy, which is under construction again.

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This is one of those oil tanks used for oil storage....neat!

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Nice mural.

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There are a lot of farms in Northern California....

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There are also several Redwood Companies.

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We have arrived at the Humboldt Redwoods State Park - The Avenue of the Giants - Ancient Redwoods.

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We just started our tour and we are amazed with these huge trees.....

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So much wood art.....beautiful.

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Then we enter the Eternal Tree House which has a 20' room inside....so awesome.

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It even has several windows.

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More wood art....

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This looks like a snake!

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A beautiful car in the Redwood Forest....

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These guys look too sad, maybe they are even mad!

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A birdhouse....                                       back on our drive.

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This Redwood has been cut...

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Same tree...I was trying to get the length but it is way too long to capture.

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I will post more in a while.....great tour so far.

1 comment:

Jesse Aleman said...

Great pictures . I see that there are biker making thier way through ther Red Wood Forest. Awesome