The Requa Inn, Requa. Right on the Klamath river. Fantastic old building - we were shocked when we entered to see cricket gear hanging in the entrance hall - turns out the owner had lived in the UK. 

Got some beautiful lense flare through the canopy on this one. 

Big Tree

This one is the biggest redwood in the US and one of the largest trees in the world. It was called "The Giant Tree". Imaginative. In case you can't read the sign: 363 feet high 53.2 feet circumference.
postscript: Ok turns out the old tree in Gippsland was bigger than that big tree we saw. But unlike the Americans, we cut the tree down and did something useful with it (I think it was converted to shingles and planks). The big Redwood was 363 feet tall standing

* The Thorpdale tree in South Gippsland. This was measured twice by a surveyor, once when it was standing by a theodolite (a surveying instrument) and again when it was cut down - in 1880. Its cut down height was 114m (374 feet). This tree was actually listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the tallest tree in the world as there was actual documents available to verify this. Today a plaque denotes it resting place and the site can still be visited - although with nothing present there isn't much point except to remember man's folly.

Eureka

Strange town, a mixture of cute coastal-style old buildings and disgusting 60's buildings. All the north-south streets were labelled in the usual American style from 1->x but all the east-west streets were labelled a-z. As Chris said, navigating around felt a bit like playing battleships. Found this "Irish" shop somewhere near H and 3rd. Iceland??

Again

Moi at the tree.

The drive-thru tree

The area was populated with numerous tourist traps with names like "Confusion Hill" and "The Trees of Mystery" we avoided them all except the drive-through tree. Cost bloody $5 (the same as crossing the Golden Gate Bridge). It was fun to watch some fools attempt to get small 4 wheel drives through and almost scraping their cars. We avoided the gift shop and kept on going.


Forgot to lock the WB again....

Klamath, Redwoods Tour

Hammer's cousin Chris came down from Detroit for the July 4th weekend and we planned a trip up to Cal north to see the Redwood forests. This involved a 360 mile drive up through Santa Rosa, Ukia, and Eureka on the 101.

Can I just say that I have never taken so many pictures of trees in my life. Here is one to ease you into it.

Country was very pretty up north. We had lunch in Eureka, a strange old coastal town and ended up in Klamath, the site of our B&B accomodation. Drive was about 7 hours including stops.