19/7: Understandably, mom wanted to see some coastal redwoods. So we drove up into the mountains north of Santa Cruz to Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park.
An incredible chronology. This tree was older than Christianity, before it was felled in the middle of the 20th centry.
Mom was amazed. I thought: Wait til you see the giant sequoias in Sierra Nevada…
This is what the coastal redwood needles look like. So tiny, on such big trees.
Big tree. At least a thousand years old. More than 80 meters high.
Katja Malmborg 