Northwestern California & Oregon Coast

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Ok, we’re off to meet up with Steve and Alice in Brookings, Oregon for a few days.  I’m a day late on this post since we left home yesterday morning.  We drove north to Redding and then west towards Eureka, CA and the highway follows the Trinity river for a ways.  Everything is starting to bloom in this part of the world right now and there was lots of beautiful Red Bud along the river.

There are lots of Bald Eagles in California but I never seem to be able to find them, until yesterday.  I stopped to take the following picture and this guy was just hanging out there for a bonus picture.

The moss along the river bank was so pretty with every shade of green represented.  I spotted this little waterfall to help complete the scene but the trees in the front almost hide it.

According to all the weather forecasts it was supposed to rain on our entire trip.  Fortunately for us they aren’t always right and this morning we awoke to clearing skies.  This is the view of the Crescent City lighthouse take not 50 feet from our trailer in our beachfront campsite.

Since we had the time today and it’s such a short distance out of the way we had to make a side trip into the redwoods this morning.  They are so incredible we are in awe every time we see them.

There is my sweet wife standing amongst the giants.

And here she is peeking through a knot hole.

For all my friends that are past and present ax men, this is what we call a tree in California. This is the bottom of a fallen redwood tree.  Hopefully tomorrow will bring some photos from the Oregon coast.  We arrived in Brookings this afternoon.