More Pictures along the way - April 10th - Eureka to Crescent City

As we headed up the coast from Eureka toward Crescent City, we were looking forward to seeing a lot of very large trees as we headed up through the National Redwood Forest.

Of course we had to stop and watch the ocean periodically as we moved up the coast. You can see a lot of driftwood and logs that have washed ashore.Looking back at the Visitor's Center.
We have seen similar signs all the way up the coast. I don't remember seeing these on prior trips up the coast. I don't know if these are a new phenomenom or occuring more frequently or the state just decided that they needed to warn us about the dange of such waves.
This is another view from the same are of coast.
Again, the same area but I liked the lonely logs.
Here I am trying to be artistic but not sure I succeeded.


Seeing the elk was amazing. There were signs along the road to watch out for them and there was an area called Elk Prairie where they have a pull off to watch them. Unfortunately, the elk apparently can't read and didn't know they were supposed to be there as there were none right there. Fortunately, not even a mile down the road, we saw these elk grazing behind some rental cottages. We drove in and the elk just ignored us. We didn't get out of the car but were able to get some nice pictures.



















As we drove through the Redwood National Park, there were areas to pull off and walk through the trees. At this one, they advertise the Big Tree. We weren't sure which one they meant as they were all pretty amazing. Here is a fallen tree with other plants growing out of it, they call this a nurse tree.
This should give you some idea of the size of the trees. When you compare their girth to a human, they are absolutely amazing.

I liked this "monster tree" (my term) as it looks like it is reaching out and taking over. It is actually growing on a nurse tree and putting out additional roots down to the ground.



This is the view from the scenic overlook that we stopped at while driving the wonderful "coastal road" that Diane describes as narrow, dirt and gravel. It actually was not a nice road to drive down. It kept getting worse for a while and I wasn't sure if it was just going to end or really take us out. We finally came to a black top road that the map said went back to the highway so we took that rather than continue down the coastal road to the end or the highway, not sure which it would have been.This was taken looking back over the mouth of the Klamath River.
At the tourist attraction for the "Mystery Trees", which we did not explore, there were statues of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. Unfortunately, Babe lost his head and they have not yet been able to schedule the doctor to reattach it.
The sunset from our room in Crescent City. The view was great from our balcony.