Day 6: Founder's Grove
and Exploring Humboldt
Founder's Grove was cool and the
kids enjoyed finding the numbers to read all the things about what they were
seeing.
Kevin was
angry because the guy at the entrance wouldn't let him bring his hiking stick
on the trail.
This is founder's tree. The
lowest branch WAY up there is 190 feet in the air, and above that is another
156 feet of tree!! Kind of crazy when you think about it!
Kevin, still mad! he he he
yup still mad......
Our Car had gotten pretty dirty!!
We stopped
at the Women's League Grove which had an awesome swimming spot and spent the
rest of the afternoon there and had lunch there.
They built that hole strip and
successfully slowed the flow of the river down quite a bit.
We, Bryan
and I, told stories about our childhood to the boys around the campfire to try
to get them to just sit around the fire for a while.
In the
Tent at night it looked like this!
I tripped
over a stump on the first day there and scraped myself up pretty good and had a
few awesome bruises and a sore hip.
Day
7: Heading South
Well we
were sad to leave our perfect campsite with hot showers in Humboldt State Park,
we could have stayed a week, easy. But Bryan had to go back to work so we
had to go home.
We snapped
a picture of this street sign because this was the exit we took to get to
Mountain View Road we didn't want to accidentally go that way again.
We came
south through Oakland and then wanted to go see Half Moon Bay so we hopped on
the 92 unaware that it was a toll bridge. They should mark those
better. We didn't have the $15 in cash they wanted (because we were
towing) so it cost us $40 to cross that bridge ...$15 plus a $25
penalty...OUCH! It was a big bridge and cut a lot of time off of our trip.
Half Moon
Bay was Foggy and Gray...and cold...
We headed to our final campsite in
Coastanoa just north of Santa Cruz. Again I was thinking it was going to
be like Manchester due to the extreme cloud cover...but the clouds opened up
right over our campsite it was a Camping Miracle!
This KOA had very small sites but it
was fine since we were only staying for the night. We hiked over the
beach which was CRAZY windy and cold and then came back for dinner after
playing on the sand dunes for a while.
Then the boys rode their bikes until
time for oreo cookies and hot chocolate since we were out of marshmallows.
Day
8: Homeward Bound!
We must
have worn them out Kevin and Isaac slept through us packing up everything in
the tent except for them. I didn't get pic sadly until after Kevin woke
up but here is Isaac after we also cleaned out Kevin's stuff!
We cut
over to the 5 to go home and well that pretty much left nothing to look at
until we got home.
We stopped at a McDonald's in
Castaic and had Ice Cream for Dinner...(they had carrots and granola bars in
the car to supplement)
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