Red Wood Forest!

One of our first visits was Henry Cowells Redwoods State Park.  We walked the loop trail. It was a perfect taste of the redwoods. They were huge but not the huge kind you could drive through. It was so peaceful and quiet and cool. 

Kassidy adored every aspect of it because it was somewhere where the hobbits would have lived. She seriously could not get enough of it. Every tree she was going to build her hobbit home into.

The way these tress grow is interesting. "The tallest tress in the world have a shallow root system growing only 6-12 feet below the surface. Instead of growing deep, their roots grow out extending hundreds of feets literally. Wrapping their roots around other redwood roots, these tress help each other stay in the ground until flood and wind finally knock them over."

 Little hearts....so cute. I really wanted to see a banana slug. But didn't.

This is us INSIDE STANDING UP in a tree. SO cool!

The purse I sewed to show my friends~ Worked perfect!

I think this was the tree that had fire in it. The pamphlet said "Most fires cannot penetrate the thick  fibrous and almost fire resistant redwood bark."

AMAZING!

This was one of Justine's pictures. She loved the little drinking fountain for dogs.