Sequoia National Park

No time for writing…

When: August 24, 2008
Where: Sequoia National Park, CA, USA
What: huge trees, stunning views, amazing nature (continued)

Filip and me driving through a sequoia: the “tunnel log”:

Evi and me sitting in the roots of another dead sequoia:

By the way, these giants don’t die from disease or age, but they topple over after a while—although this while might be more than 2000 years….

And this boy is the biggest tree in the World (in volume, not in height):

You basically feel like an ant in these groves…

Not only impressive flora here, however. We spotted this bear in the wild:

Don’t worry, Mum, I took this picture with our new impressive 300mm tele-lens, so we kept our distance ;-)

Okay, that’s it for Sequoia National Park. We are now leaving LA after three days here. Expect news on that later…