San Francisco Pt. 1

I quite recently vacationed in the beautiful city of San Francisco. It was terrifically soothing and ultimately the antidote to former stresses which lived still in the damp suit of Seattle. Girlfriend Anne and I enjoyed a nearly perfect California week, only given to one day of precipitation. Not bad. As we did quite a lot of things, I will segment it into appropriately short portions. They will not occur in any particular order but they will all concern San Francisco or its outlying areas.
One day we set off to see some redwoods (precisely the Coast Redwoods) at the Big Basin Redwoods State Park, which is the home to the largest continuous stand of ancient Coast Redwoods south of San Francisco. It takes much driving on winding roads to get there and as long as you don't sit in the back seat (like me) you won't feel dizzy and weird (like I did). Getting there, we paid the people and ate some of the snacks we brought. In a sort of random way, one of many trails was chosen and we walked around and up to the top of a little mountain where we could see the ocean or, more precisely, imagine the ocean sitting beyond the fog. We imagined it was gorgeous. Along the way I took many pictures of strange things I couldn't always identify.

 

Enormous.

  

More after the jump~

 

Anne is such a treehugger.

 

This crosscut had metal labels indicating time specific events such as the crowning of Charlemagne. Very old tree.

 

Black Trumpet mushrooms, I think.

 

Inside some burned out Sequoia.

 

Tree fungus of some kind.

 

Burn.

 

Fungus flower.

 

Who's that little kid?

 

Prideful conquerors.

 

Banana slug  

 

Strange gelatinous fungus.

 

Odd growths covering nearly everything.

 

A friendly newt.

 

That sums up part one of my San Francisco series. Hope it was enjoyable.