Thursday, July 22, 2010

Big Basin Redwoods

We headed down to the Big Basin Redwoods on Tuesday. We stopped off in a little town called Boulder Creek to have lunch at Round Table Pizza and then headed up to the State Park.
Here is a picture of a tree that they said was like 800 years old before Columbus discovered America. The little silver plaques are time lines in history.
Here is me on a tree that had fallen over, if you can see me at the top.
The trees are crazy that they start out as one and then split into two and some are hollowed out.
The view looking straight up at the tall trees. It is amazing the height they can reach, but with bases like they have they could go on forever! Some are over 300 feet tall.
This kind of shows you how big the trees are, I'm not even close to hugging that whole tree.
Jackie hiding in one.
The view from inside the tree on a couple of them. I am not sure how the trees got to be completely hollowed on the inside.

This tree was like 66 feet around.
This one was even bigger. 70 feet in circumference at the ground and 329 feet high.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

This was one of our favorite places. I loved walking through it. It smells so good and is like walking on cork. Make you wonder if some date back to Christ's time. He really is an amazing creator.