Crecent City!!

 This past Sunday we went on another adventure, we went and visited Crecent City.  Kades group had been working up there and he told me it was really pretty and that I would like it.  I love that he thinks of me when he sees places, because he is always right!  He knows me too well :)  On our drive up to Crecent City, we saw the elk again.  They always hang out around the same spot.  And man! they are growing!  Their antlers are getting bigger all the time.  There were a whole bunch of bulls this time, in this herd, and no cows.

 I'm excited to see how big they are here in a month before we move :)

 This is one of the many many large redwood trees out here but I liked the big round knub that I could stand on :)

 OK, LOOK AT THIS PICTURE VERY CLOSELY!  Kade is standing on the left side of the tree, down there above the ferns, he's in a cream colored shirt.  That shows you how big the trees are!  And my camera would only fit 1/2 of the tree's height! Thats right 1/2!!! HUGE TREE!!!

 These tree were also really neat.  They grow kinda crazy and they are all covered in moss, and they are beautiful!

 This is what they call "The Big Tree"  pretty origional right!!?  The height is 304 feet tall, diameter is 21.6 feet and the age is estimated at 1500 years old!  

 Kade is down inside the remains of an old stump. 

 When we got to Crecent City, there was a beautiful little rock formation by the docks and it was one of the prettiest things I've ever seen.  It just comes right up out of the ground but its really easy to climb up on.  It probably sits about 50 feet up out of the ocean, so you can really look out far into the ocean.  And we saw WHALES!!!! It was so FUN!! We were so excited to finally see whales!  We were sitting there and Kade said," I think I just saw a whale come to the surace, because I saw the water stream that they blow up"  so we watched for a few seconds longer and sure enough, they kept coming up to the surface! Super fun!  And the above pic is when we were climbing around on the rock, looking at things, I liked all those green ocean creatures :) and the barnicles sticking on the rocks.

 One of my most favorites of all time right here!  I set up the camera for this pic and I love how it turned out!

 We got to go see a really neat, old, (still in operation) light house and these flowers were right by the light house.

 This was on our drive as well.  We stopped at the Trees of Mystery gift shop to take a picture of the giant Paul Bunyan and Babe the blue ox!  It was so fun.  They were huge too!  I am sitting on Paul Bunyans right toe, with a cute little boy, because he wanted to be in the picture with me :)

 We can finally say that we drove through a tree!  I still can't believe that the hole of where we drive through is only half the width of the tree! Unbelieveable!

 These lovely little creatures hang out all over the place, and they make themselves quite comfortable indeed!

 This was on the way back from Crecent City and man, what a beautiful sight! It truly reminds me of how much God loves us to give us such a beautiful place to live and enjoy!  And it reminds me of the power that was used to create it. Only the power of God could create a sight like this!

College Cove

 Time is actually going by pretty fast! I can't believe we have been out here almost a month now! That seems crazy.  I'm thankful to be working in the office for our company, because that takes up a lot of time and its nice to be in on the office fun!  I've been wanting to post these pics for a few days now, but it feels like this has been my only chance.  This past Sunday we went and visited College Cove, its actually just north of Trinidad, where we went two Sunday's ago.  I love College Cove a lot because its very secluded and not a lot of people are here, probably because of the cliffs that you have to climb down to get to the beach :)  Which, I'm totally OK with! The pic above is from the cliff that we were on (Redwood forests) looking out to the north. 

 Same cliff :)  Off to the side of me, it was litterally straight down! Probabley at least 100 feet. 

 This was a really fun rock that we climbed up on (the right side) and had a great angle of the beach and ocean, sort of a birds eye view, all angle view.

 This was up on top of that huge rock that we climbed on.  I love these flowers that just grow in the rocks. Cliff flowers :)

 This was up on the rock looking over towards Trinidad.  This is where we sat for a long time and listened to the waves crash on the rocks.  A nice Sunday afternoon activity.

 I think the star fish are so cool, I know I take a lot of pics of them but I just love how colorful and unique they are!

 Can't forget the purple guy

 The rock straight ahead is the one that we climbed up on to watch the waves. I love how flat the beach is so that the water kinda just runs all over it.

 Kade buggers :)  The mountain behind Kade doesnt look that big but......its big, and thats the one that we climbed down to get to the beach.  I felt like I was on the elk hunt with the Church boys again.......never know where they are gonna take ya! 

Just another view from our climb.  Hope I'm not posting too many scenic pics.  I just have a hard time picking which ones I want to post, so, they all end up on here! :)  Oh well!  Hope you all like them!  We love and miss everyone! Hope all is well with everyone, wherever in the world you may be!!!

Fern Canyon

 This past Sunday we went to Fern Canyon and explored.  Its a little canyon that you have to wade through the river/stream the whole way to get there.  But it is beautiful!  And its right by the ocean so you can see the ocean and  be in the mountains at the same time.  The pic above is after we got through the canyon and we were making the loop back to the car.

 This was just a cool tree that I liked:)

 Here is the beach and the canyon that we were in is not too far off in the distance to the right.

 This was Fern Canyon!  It was basically a wall on both sides that went about 50 feet up and was covered in all kinds of different ferns and little waterfalls.

 The trees are so darn cool, I just love them!

This was such a beautiful view of the fog rolling in.  What a pretty day!

Kade piggy-backed me a lot of the way cause you literally had to walk through the water most of the time and I had shoes on that I didn't really want to get wet. What a sport he was!

 On our adventure, we saw A LOT of elk!  They are everywhere out here! It is crazy!  And they are all wild, but they are used to everyone always looking at them, so you can get pretty close.

The elk just hang around this little area, they are here pretty much all the time.

 This was on the drive, so pretty!

The horses were having some issues getting along with the elk. The elk were laying down, enjoying the day and the buckskin horse came up to the elk and pinned his ears back at it as if to say,"Really, you guys have to park your whole entire heard right in our lush pasture!!?? MOVE ALREADY!!!!" It was hilarious! I was pretty surprised that the elk didn't move, it just got up and faced the horse in a very confident manner! Haha!

 Upclose!  We were only about 20 yards from this guy, and he didn't mind one bit!  I love that you can see his little knubs starting to grow back! :) Kade loves this area because it makes him feel like right at home!

    The deadfall was pretty cool looking!  Very big trees:) 

Adventures at Trinidad!

Well, this past Sunday we had our first adventure! I love seeing new places! We decided that Trinidad (about 15 min from or house) looked pretty fun, so we decided to go there first. It was BEAUTIFUL! I loved it! The above pic is of a park that overlooks the ocean that has picnick tables to eat and just hang out.

There was this fun little bench that someone had made so that you can sit and enjoy the views, so I decided I wanted to sit and enjoy myself! hehe

I love all these flowers that greet you as you get out of your car. They grow right in the sand on the beach!

These were the biggest.......or I should say fattest surprises of the day! Kade and I were walking along the beach and we were so excited to see all the star fish that we didn't even notice the sea lions staring us right in the face! Holy Cow! I looked up and said,"Kade Kade Kade, there are sea lions!!!!!!" and he said, "Where" and I said, "Right in front of us, starings us in the eyes!" and he said, "OH!" haha!

They were just laying around, enjoying their Sunday as most of us do on Sundays! LOL

Call me crazy but I think they have the cutest faces! I've always loved white sea lions! I love the really white ones......maybe its because they look kinda like a white lab puppy????:)

We saw LOTS of star fish! Which was cool for us cause we didn't see to many of them in Hawaii.

Lots of ColorS!

We loved this big rock that came up out of the sand, kinda neat.

Our long staircase that led to the beach

Trinidad, view looking south.

Redwood Park

Well here we are in CALIFORNIA!! And I'm am loving it so far! Kade and I always love the summers for the "adventure" part of it! We usually try to go out early in the morning and explore or take a jog, and always on Sundays too. The other day, I was driving past Humbolt University and saw "Redwood Park" and thought, "That looks really pretty! We have to go there soon!" haha! So we did, the next morning, and it was BEAUTIFUL! Its only about a mile from our apartment. I think, I may be spending a lot of time here in the future :)

This stump is so cool, it looks like something off of Robin Hood!
This pic is my new favorite so far! LOVE LOVE LOVE It!

The trees are very tall, in fact, the current tall tree record holder is nearly 380 feet high, which is almost six stories taller than the Statue of Liberty! That was a fun little fact that I learned the other day!

I think this is suppose to be Big Foot or something......but it looks kinda like a hippie to me:)

The clovers here are huge! Like 4 times the size of the ones you see on your lawn back home! LOL.....I find weird things interesting :)

Yep, thats a big stump too! Its pretty hard to find a small one!