Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Drive Thru

California Redwoods grow all the way up the coast but the biggest ones are up north, way up north it turns out ...400 miles up North to be precise!
Dunc wouldnt have baulked at the drive, I have to admit to being just a teeny bit apprehensive considering I had only a days practice at driving the monster.

Anyway after nearly 400 miles of this........





we came across this.................




No, I didnt attempt to take the monster through, it has a reversing camera but it would have needed cameras all round to convince me to take large car through a hole in a tree !

Old trees and ferns have this sort of primeval feeling about them, they are 2000 odd years old but not back to the epoch they remind you of . You kind of feel sorry for the tree, 2000 years old and someone decides to turn it into a tourist attraction for people to drive though, Thats America for you, drive through McDonalds, drive thru banks, drive thru trees............


Giants
The Avenue of the giants is a drive through the Redwood trees, some were really massive and even made the big car look small, it started to rain as we were driving through but there was so much canopy that it didnt really get wet  until we rejoined the main road.






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