We started our second day with a giant coffee before beginning our drive down the Pacific Coast Highway. ; )
Our first pullover stop on the PCH was Gray Whale Cove State Beach. We spotted a few whales hanging out in the sea.
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| You can see a whale coming up to the surface here! So fun! |
We continued meandering down the coast until we came to Cowell Ranch Beach. I only knew about this stop because a designer that I follow had posted about "working" here for the day. After seeing her picture, I knew we had to stop. Below is the walk out to the beach.
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| A pic of the fan before we walked down the steps to the beach. |
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| The kiddos with the cliffs behind them. |
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| Toes in the Pacific!! It was cold! |
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| Reed and I both got caught by this wave. Oops! Wet jeans were no fun, ha! |
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| The hills on the walk back from the beach. So beautiful! |
Our next stop was the Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park. The redwoods are majestic. I wasn't aware of just how amazing they would be in person. Some of the tallest old-growth coast redwoods are located in this park. The tallest can reach up to 285 feet tall and be 1,500 years old!
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| Cross section of a fallen redwood that was just a baby when Jesus was born (see below)! |
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| Standing inside a burned out redwood. This trees can burn from the inside and still live for thousands of years. |
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| Photography courtesy of Reed. The only full length picture of the two of us together. ; ) |
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| "The Giant" was 17 feet across. |
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| This picture doesn't even do the enormity of this tree justice. |
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| Also know as Endor to Reed. The Endor scenes were filmed in a redwood forest. He was excited about that! |
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| Amazed! |
After a pretty long and eventful day, we made our way to Monterey where we located the Dennis the Menace playground. The kids were excited to run wild for a bit!
Amazing pictures!
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