World's 8th Largest Tree

[Philip Anderson]

Love the photos ,I visited the tall trees grove 25 years ago got off the greyhound at the visitor centre and caught the forest service minibus to the grove ,never saw the girl ,I even stayed at the redwood youth hostel near Crescent city maybe she wasn't born then!! Again fantastic photos great light conditions.

[mdvaden]

Damn Mario. I only saw lots of homeless, nothing like that young lady. Enjoyed my stay though and glad you encouraged me to take the time to look around properly rather than rushing. Also interested in the camera and lenses you're using.

 

 

Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

 

Oh ...

 

To go along with that last bit of red I posted from the Arcata / Eureka area, here's some "wood" to go with it.

 

red + wood

 

...

 

....

[Taupotreeman]

Yep we did get to see the Carson Mansion. Spent a bit of time in Arcata and driving through Eureka while we were tiki touring. Plenty of homeless in Arcata but then we saw that in a lot of places. Maybe transient is a better word. Spent most of my time trying to get decent photos in the Redwoods and trying to drive and not crash. Far to much time looking up and not at the road.

 

 

Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

[mdvaden]

Yep we did get to see the Carson Mansion. Spent a bit of time in Arcata and driving through Eureka while we were tiki touring. Plenty of homeless in Arcata but then we saw that in a lot of places. Maybe transient is a better word. Spent most of my time trying to get decent photos in the Redwoods and trying to drive and not crash. Far to much time looking up and not at the road.

 

 

Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

 

Funny .. know what you mean about not crashing. It's not rare that I need to park the truck and get out to walk because I find it's easy to get distracted rubber-necking at the trees.

 

Actually, there's a butt-load of transients in Eureka / Arcata. Per city block, I'd swear it's in league with Portland near the waterfront and downtown.

...

[Taupotreeman]

Funny .. know what you mean about not crashing. It's not rare that I need to park the truck and get out to walk because I find it's easy to get distracted rubber-necking at the trees.

 

Actually, there's a butt-load of transients in Eureka / Arcata. Per city block, I'd swear it's in league with Portland near the waterfront and downtown.

...

 

They were all pretty good to be fair and we helped a few out with some coin for food.

 

I lost count of how many times I'd drive 100m down the road and pull over AGAIN. Photos just don't do justice to the trees, no matter how good they are although yours are way better than mine Mario. I also found that Scotia was quite a strange but neat little place. Enjoyed looking around the museum there and learning about the floods but its quite sad to see just how much of the original Redwood forests have been decimated by logging.

 

 

Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

[mdvaden]

They were all pretty good to be fair and we helped a few out with some coin for food.

 

I lost count of how many times I'd drive 100m down the road and pull over AGAIN. Photos just don't do justice to the trees, no matter how good they are although yours are way better than mine Mario. I also found that Scotia was quite a strange but neat little place. Enjoyed looking around the museum there and learning about the floods but its quite sad to see just how much of the original Redwood forests have been decimated by logging.

 

 

Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

 

Ha !!

 

Don't have any photos of a local Scotian, but do have a photo from Scotia ...

 

This photo stitch is sure going to look puny in the forum thread though ...

 

Edited September 13, 2013 by mdvaden

[Taupotreeman]

I think the wife got a photo of the steam donkey. The hotel looked quite cool too.

At one stage I walked into a grove of massive trees, lay on my back and looked up. Quite extraordinary how small it made you feel. Also found a banana slug, which seemed to fascinate some kids on a walk.

 

 

Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

[Taupotreeman]

 

 

Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

[mdvaden]

[ATTACH]134692[/ATTACH]

 

 

Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

 

LOL ...

 

The fallen Dyerville Giant. And then there's those signs saying to stay off fallen logs ... but there's kids running across the top of them every few minutes.

 

That Humboldt Redwoods State Park is remarkable.

 

This photo is actually in Jedediah Smith, but I was laying on my back looking up as you described.

[Taupotreeman]

On your advice, I visited both. Drove down from Lincoln and Newport and parked up at Arcata for a couple of nights. Did both the parks along with the trees of mystery ( had to do it). The info centres were really helpful with maps and advice. A couple of places we had to share with screaming hoards of kids but most we were able to have to ourselves.

 

 

Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App