A big part of our trip was to ride Highway 1, the coast. It was so amazing, beautiful, and I just couldn't get enough of it.
(pretty much all of the following pictures I am taking as we moving)
Brent - Ben's dad.
We stopped at this little gift shop / ice cream shop and had some ice cream.
One of the many amazing things about the coast is that one minute you would go around the corner and all you could see to one side is the ocean, and then you would turn a corner and there would be nothing but trees around you.
On our journey, we took a 40 mile detour and went an saw a light house. It was closed the day that we were there but you could still walk to it, to the little viewing area they had, you just couldn't go directly down to the light house.
(the picture below is just the view from the path to the light house)
Once we got to the little information center they had, they had a skull & a rib of a gray whale. Pretty cool to see.
All of the follow pictures are from the view point of the light house.
Down on the rock there were some animals and TONS of them. I can't remember what they were but you could hear them talking to each other.
I know you can't see them in this picture very well, but there were some sea lions on this rock.
The light house.
The stairs down to the light house were equivalent to a 30 story building!
(this picture is of me sticking my camera barley through the fence so I could get a good picture of the stairs)
On one part of the viewing area they had a look - out point for whale watching; for gray whales.
We stood there for a minute but we got to see one. I tried to take a few pictures of him. I had my camera zoomed all the way in. Right in the center of the picture there is a small splash, which is the whale going back into the water. I have always wanted to see a whale and so now that I have, it has been checked off the bucket list.
After the light house we made our way into Mendocino. Does anyone know what is Mendocino is famous for...it is where to opening to Murder She Wrote was filmed.
Taking a break in Mendocino. We walked up and down the street doing a little window shopping. Just outside of one little store was this beautiful plant / flower.
The picture doesn't do it justice. The colors were so bright and beautiful.
That night we camped not too far out of Mendocino.
Ben & his dad eating some kippered snacks. That is one snack they can enjoy all by themselves.
That night it misted a little bit. It never really rained. The next morning when we were packing up the bikes, we saw this banana slug.
During our travels that day, we got stopped for about 15 minutes in some construction. The fog was very apparent, which made it very cold, but I wanted to get some pictures of the fog and the ocean.
Another fun thing that we got to do was just outside of Leggett, CA; there is a drive-through-tree.
On the sign it says: Height 315 ft Diameter 21 ft & Maximum age: 2100 Years
It was pretty cool.
We had to stop and get a picture of the sign. To show that we had completed our journey.
Our next stop. The Avenue of the Giants.
Part way through our journey there was a little information center. Well in the information Center had a driveable tree in it. It was just like a camper, it had a little bed and kitchen area in it.
But like all amazing trips, they all must come to an end.
Thanks to our good friend Jason, He drove from SLC to Reno, to pick us up and drive us back because Ben's dads bike started having some problems and became not driveable. But I will just say that it was really nice to enjoy the air conditioning! It was an amazing trip all around that was filled with alot of First's for me and some for Ben.
(pretty much all of the following pictures I am taking as we moving)
Brent - Ben's dad.
We stopped at this little gift shop / ice cream shop and had some ice cream.
One of the many amazing things about the coast is that one minute you would go around the corner and all you could see to one side is the ocean, and then you would turn a corner and there would be nothing but trees around you.
On our journey, we took a 40 mile detour and went an saw a light house. It was closed the day that we were there but you could still walk to it, to the little viewing area they had, you just couldn't go directly down to the light house.
(the picture below is just the view from the path to the light house)
Once we got to the little information center they had, they had a skull & a rib of a gray whale. Pretty cool to see.
All of the follow pictures are from the view point of the light house.
Down on the rock there were some animals and TONS of them. I can't remember what they were but you could hear them talking to each other.
I know you can't see them in this picture very well, but there were some sea lions on this rock.
The light house.
The stairs down to the light house were equivalent to a 30 story building!
(this picture is of me sticking my camera barley through the fence so I could get a good picture of the stairs)
On one part of the viewing area they had a look - out point for whale watching; for gray whales.
We stood there for a minute but we got to see one. I tried to take a few pictures of him. I had my camera zoomed all the way in. Right in the center of the picture there is a small splash, which is the whale going back into the water. I have always wanted to see a whale and so now that I have, it has been checked off the bucket list.
After the light house we made our way into Mendocino. Does anyone know what is Mendocino is famous for...it is where to opening to Murder She Wrote was filmed.
Taking a break in Mendocino. We walked up and down the street doing a little window shopping. Just outside of one little store was this beautiful plant / flower.
The picture doesn't do it justice. The colors were so bright and beautiful.
That night we camped not too far out of Mendocino.
Ben & his dad eating some kippered snacks. That is one snack they can enjoy all by themselves.
That night it misted a little bit. It never really rained. The next morning when we were packing up the bikes, we saw this banana slug.
During our travels that day, we got stopped for about 15 minutes in some construction. The fog was very apparent, which made it very cold, but I wanted to get some pictures of the fog and the ocean.
Another fun thing that we got to do was just outside of Leggett, CA; there is a drive-through-tree.
On the sign it says: Height 315 ft Diameter 21 ft & Maximum age: 2100 Years
It was pretty cool.
We had to stop and get a picture of the sign. To show that we had completed our journey.
Our next stop. The Avenue of the Giants.
Part way through our journey there was a little information center. Well in the information Center had a driveable tree in it. It was just like a camper, it had a little bed and kitchen area in it.
But like all amazing trips, they all must come to an end.
Thanks to our good friend Jason, He drove from SLC to Reno, to pick us up and drive us back because Ben's dads bike started having some problems and became not driveable. But I will just say that it was really nice to enjoy the air conditioning! It was an amazing trip all around that was filled with alot of First's for me and some for Ben.
2 comments:
Great pictures, McKenzie! It looks like you had a wonderful time. Maybe Jake will join you on your next adventure.
Count me in on the next one as well! But we'll have to make sure someone follows us in the truck. Hahaha. The redwood pics were great!
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