Here is what you have been (hopefully) waiting for.
This is what I believe is called Cobra Beach, all I know is that it was beautiful and there was nobody there.
These two are close geographically but I don’t remember where specifically I was, only that I was much further north than cobra beach which was only a few miles north of Santa Cruz.
These three were taken at the first “Drive through tree” that I found and the only one I visited. This particular tree is called Chandler Tree and the hole was just barely (almost too small) for a full sized pickup truck to drive through with mirrors pulled in.
This is a size comparison: your slightly larger than average suburban yard tree vs giant redwoods that were not even the biggest I saw. Some of the largest that I have seen are well over 300 feet tall.
This tree had apparently had enough…for size reference think of my car parked on top of the fallen tree and imagine that the trunk is as big around as my car.
still not the largest tree I have seen but this gives a more accurate idea of size.
next to the jetta, as I said, these trees are huge.
My campsite in the redwoods though you cannot see many of them.
I spent a full day driving through this and a good hour driving only 30mph through part of it since woke up and got moving earlier than most of the tourists.
This is Founders Tree.
I know that this is a lot of the same thing but it is hard to convey the beauty and immense scale of all of it.’
There will be more so please keep checking.
