Giants- The Redwoods

This place was on my bucket list and it was amazing! We camped at the Jedediah Smith campground, which has been our favorite spot so far. We also heard a few owl hoots during the night and also a few nosies that sounded like dogs barking, then monkeys!!! We later learned those are the noises the barred owl makes... So strange wish we had seen it.(And there were showers here, always a bonus) You camp at the base of all theses redwoods and you can cross a bridge right into the Stout Grove from the campsite.

Love seeing the flag in so many places

Yoga attempts in the redwoods

 Stout grove was incredible. It is really hard to capture how big these trees really are. They can grow up to 350 feet and the oldest recorded so far I believe was 1,500 years old. They have shallow roots but they can extend far out. It is from these roots that other redwood trees grow. So they have little redwood families. 

We wanted to see the tallest tree in the trees of mystery but you had to pay $15 and who can really tell how tall these are from the ground because you can barely see the tops of most of them. So we skipped that but we did go do the drive through a redwood tour. It was $5 and we made the most of it because we were the only ones there so we drove through it six or seven times. It was a bit of squeeze and required Matt's maneuvering skills. 

We also went to the Simpson Reed grove and the redwoods in this grove were even larger in diameter there! They are just so massive it's just unreal. I felt like I was in the chronicles of narnia because they jus felt so magical. With all the fern growth it also looked a lot like where the ewoks lived in Star Wars, yes I know nerd alert. This place should be on your list of places to go.

We ran into Sasquatch 

Driving along the coast

There is a dinosaur park with you can walk through with the "dinosaurs" but it was  a little pricey for us for what it was.

Driving up to Oregon on the coast I had read about the most arguably beautiful Light house. This wasn't it even though the name was extremely similar. 

This one was cute, though supposedly haunted.