These redwoods are huge!! Standing in front of a large burned section show that the remainder of the tree is alive!!We drove down into northern California (near Eureka) and visited Humboldt Redwoods State Park!! This is a beautiful forest of coastal redwoods!!The coastal redwoods are taller than the redwoods near Yosemite!Our tour director (Susan) and I could barely reach the diameter of these trees!!The deep texture of the wood and bark is amazing!!The trees as so tall, I had trouble capturing their height with my camera’s wide angle lens!!I enjoyed looking at the deep bark with moss growing all over the trees!!This is more of a close-up photo of the mass growing on the trees!!This amazing root system looked like a roaring fire to me!!The texture of the trees was so interesting!!The ferns grew everywhere along with the redwoods!!Susan was dwarfed by the size of the root system!!The depth of the ridges in the bark was impressive!!The texture of the cracks and ridges in the bark was interesting!!The light making it through the redwood canopy created a spotlight on these leaves growing on a fallen redwood!!
Ferns and moss grew everywhere at the base of the redwoods!!The root systems of the fallen redwoods were so interesting to examine!!The bright green moss growing on this fallen tree was interesting!!After leaving Humboldt Redwoods State Park, we went to the zoo in Eureka. This curious black bear was fun to watch as he played in his enclosure!!He seemed to be giving us a curious stare!!The javelina were active in their enclosure too!!The zoo had a walkway that was high in their redwoods. Walking across provided a top-down view of a tree!! This was the most interesting perspective of a tree!!This “knob” of the redwood was interesting. That can be used to make beautiful bowls and furniture!!This owl was a treasure of the zoo!! He only had one eye. He seemed content to let a group of people study him!!
Fiesta on Wheels 