We just spent a glorious 4 days camping in the Redwoods. Our site was right on the beautiful Smith River in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park. We hiked amongst the tallest trees, swam in the crystal clear river, explored the pristine tide pools, star gazed, and enjoyed the start of this very busy summer season!
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| Playing in the river |
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| The tube got lots of use. |
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| Floating away the day. |
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| Our site |
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| The best one in the entire campground. |
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| Watching the river from my camp chair |
Our first day, we spent exploring the tide pools at Enderts Beach. It's a half mile hike along a cliff down to the beach.
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| Starting our hike down to the Beach |
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| The view |
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| The end of the trail |
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| Happy |
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| Mommy and Baby |
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| Found a ladybug - of all things. |
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| Watching the ocean. |
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| We watched this crab molt! It was very cool. |
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| Saving Frances from a wave |
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| Giant drift wood at the mouth of Nickel Creek |
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| Course we had to climb on top |
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| Heading back |
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| Leaving the beach |
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| A perfect morning at the beach |
The next day we walked the trails of Simpson Reed / Peterson loops.
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| Walking on top of a nurse log - Lucas has his Jr. Ranger book open to the nurse log page :) |
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| It was a big nurse log |
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| Baby and the Tree |
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| We joined her |
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| Lucas climbing high |
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| The Rainbow Big Leave Maple |
The day after - we hiked the Hiouchi Trail, which is a 2 mile trail along Smith River (on the other side of the campground) to Stout Grove, where some of the biggest trees grow. The kids did an amazing job hiking this trail. It had a lot of poison oak and Lucas was quick to always point it out to us. In all, we hiked about 3.5 miles - I was very proud of my little explores.
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| The little beach on the other side is where we spent our evenings playing in the river. |
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| Our campsite - That's Jana waving at us. |
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| My little hiker |
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| But, really, this is how she spent most of the hike. |
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| The end of the Hiouchi trail at the mouth of Mill Creek - we had to walk through the creek to get to Stout Grove. |
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| Made it! |
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| While in the grove - we ran in to some nice folks who offered to drive us back to our car so we wouldn't have to back track - It was just about a mile to their car - much closer. We were very appreciative :) |
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| Lucas getting his Jr. Ranger badge |
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| Our last night of camping we went out to dinner in Crescent City and had fish and chips and clam chowder! |
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| Walking Crescent Beach after dinner. |
The next morning we packed up camp and headed up the Oregon Coast - such a beautiful drive.
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| Being Highway 101 - there is always road work - this was one of the constructions stops somewhere. |
We finally stopped for the night in Yachats - just south of Newport - at a beautiful little hotel on the beach called The Adobe. It was perfect.
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| The sunset |
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| Exploring the beach |
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| The view looking south from our room |
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| The next morning |
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| combing the beach |
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| climbing the rocks |
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| Last stop before heading inland to go home - the beach at Lincoln City |
It was a fantastic vacation - with lasting memories - the Relaxing River - the Beautiful Trees - the Spectacular Coastline - Makes me not want to mention the downers of the trip - me submerging my phone in the River - the truck breaking down about an hour from home and having to finish out the trip riding in the back of a tow truck.... Oh well, what are ya gonna do.. It was still worth it.
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