No matter how many of California's massive trees you encounter, you still can't help feeling awed in the presence of so many massive trees.
In this part of the world, where the road cuts straight through a swathe of them, you get to check them all out without even leaving your vehicle(!)
And so we had a great drive and then camped at an RV park at Eureka (the town was a hole but the RV park had a hot tub that the four of us spent half an hour in -- it's like the bath we'd never had!)
The next morning we headed into Redwood National Park (which is actually a conglomeration of state parks and national parks rolled into one).
Today we took a hike - a loop made up of the South Fork, Rhododendron and Brown Creek Trails - about 5.5km total. The boys were little champions and even had enough energy to race each other over flat sections towards the end of the hike.
We saw four banana slugs and discussed how much more like a 'rainforest' this zone seemed compared to the other giant tree zones we'd visited further south.
The boys had completed Junior Ranger activities and so at the northern end of the park, were awarded their Redwoods Junior Ranger badges.We are now camped just north of Crescent City and deciding what to do. We had planned to head towards Crater Lake Nat. Park next but have just seen online that snows have closed the access roads and campgrounds.
This has been a constant on our trip so far - we're skirting the edges of the open seasons at the places we're going to and sometimes we've been lucky and other times not (eg. lots of great looking campsites have been 'closed for the season'). We may end up just staying put until we decide which way to go next.
