MOUNT SHASTA

REDWOODS
In 1148 A.D. this tree began growing near Jorden Creek at the north end of the "Avenue of the Giants". It was 839-years old it fell in 1987. The height of the tree was 300 feet, the average diameter was 9 feet and it's weight was 325 tons.

Misty Morning in the Redwood Forest

Fog is the lifegiving substance of California's Coastal Redwoods. Condensing on the needles of trees and then dripping to the ground, it accounts for as much as seventy inches of moisture per year.

Battery Point Lighthouse was completed in 1865. Now a museum operated by the Del Norte County Historical Society. It can be reached by foot at low tide.

COAST REDWOODS

Clearing fog reveals chunky islands topped by firs in this picture typical of the Northern California coast.

Do these look like "Happy California Cows"???

Gray Whales
The gray whale is the most common large whale seen from shore along the west coast of North America. Gray whales feed in shallow waters near shore during the summer and fall and migrate south fro breeding and calving during the winter, and migrate north in the the spring.

Picturesque sea stacks are found along the rugged Southern Oregon Coast.

Tidepools can be found in many places along the Oregon coast. These unique costal ecoosystems support many different forms of life such as seastars, giant green anemones, purple and red sea urchins, mussels, turnan snails, green, red, and brown algae to name a few.

Ancient intrusions of basalt withstand the forces of erosion longer than sandstone, clay or shale. But with time they too disappear.

Afallen redwood so slow to rot it may lie on the forest floor for as many years as it grew, nurturing a variety of herbs, woody plants and wildlife.

A picture perfect day along the Oregon Coast.