Eureka

Battery Point lighthouse in Crescent City. It looked fabulous at night when it was lit up by floodlights.

One of the coastal redwoods we saw on our day off in Crescent City.

Tracy decorated the car at the second SAG for Doc's birthday. Ron is posing with him. I hope that I am still as strong as Doc at age 69!

Fancy Victorian home in Eureka, now a private club. Ron has dined here with clients he has in Eureka.

We were supposed to receive our first rain of the trip and Mother Nature did not disappoint. We were lucky in that the first rain was at about mile 55. It rained hard for just a short period of time but it did spit on us for most of the rest of the ride. This was our longest day of the trip at 87 miles.

We rode into giant coastal redwood forests today. They are quite spectacular. They are the tallest redwoods in the US, but not the largest in terms of weight or diameter. There ares 178 trees that are taller than 350 feet, or nearly the length of a football field, including the end zones. The largest diameter on a coastal redwood tree is 26 feet. By contrast, the diameter of the largest giant sequoia, also a redwood tree, is 56 feet. Such large trees are relatively rare as there are only 7 sequoias that exceed the 26 feet diameter of the largest coastal redwood. We stopped at the Big Tree Wayside for our first SAG stop. The nearby tree is 304 feet tall and 21 feet in diameter, practically a baby.