Cory, July, Cayman & Cooper: Day 2

Our First stop was the Eternal Tree house.

We then stopped off at Founders cove and did a little hike in the redwoods that went around and described a few different sites of what happened to all these trees. Each one had a story and the trees were huge!

After walking around we had a picnic outside.

We then made our way to the Immortal Tree. This tree has had many lives.

An attraction with a name like "Immortal Tree" is just asking for trouble. Still, this almost 1,000-year-old redwood has survived lightning, fire, floods, and ax-happy junior Bunyans.

A sign next to the trunk recounts its various brushes with death: lightning removed the top, the logger's axe had at it in 1908, forest fires and the notorious "Flood of 1964." The tree was once 298 ft. tall, and has been whittled to a still respectable 258 feet, with a base diameter of 14 1/2 feet.

An attraction with a name like "Immortal Tree" is just asking for trouble. Still, this almost 1,000-year-old redwood has survived lightning, fire, floods, and ax-happy junior Bunyans.
A sign next to the trunk recounts its various brushes with death: lightning removed the top, the logger's axe had at it in 1908, forest fires and the notorious "Flood of 1964." The tree was once 298 ft. tall, and has been whittled to a still respectable 258 feet, with a base diameter of 14 1/2 feet.
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We then drove to the Drive thru tree the Shrine Tree. It had a few fun little tree houses the kids could play in.

This tree was placed so you could drive up on the tree itself and it was pretty neat.

Here is the car going through. It is a pretty tight squeeze.

We went to confusion hill where we took a train ride around the forest. It was pretty neat to hear the story of how most of the trees were chopped down.

The house with the weird gravity was awesome. We love weird things like this. Cory could lean forward and not fall down.

Hanging from the bar your body just moved out diagonally.

you could stand on the wall and not tip over.

The kids had fun trying to keep their balance and walk around.

We stopped by this cute little wood gift store on the side of the road and looked at all the neat carvings that were there. I also had to see a cute mountain man.

We stopped off the road and hiked down to the bottom of the Eel River. It was so fun to sit and watch the kids play in the river. It was nice and refreshing.

After that we headed to the last drive thru tree and waited for over an hour in line to drive thru the tree. It was insane. The kids found trees and stumps to climb on while we waited.

Cayman was whittling away on a stick she found. I was sad she didn't bring it home with her because she spent so much time cleaning it and getting the bark off. She just left it in the wilderness.