Monday, August 22, 2011

Big Trees Little Falls (Trillium) and Little Round Doors

We saw some really big old growth Redwood trees on our hike to Trillium Falls.


Trillium Falls looked really small compared to the big trees.

We also saw large cloves (Sorral) which sometimes were purple.

At Patrick's Point State Park we visited a replica Native American Yurok Village named Sumeg (for everlasting).  The village had several houses, a dance floor, changing room and a sweat lodge.  The Yurok's still use the village for ceremonial purposes. The houses had small round doors.  They are designed so people can get in, but bears cannot.

There was also a Yurok canoe carved out from a Redwood tree that we were allowed to sit in.  One huge canoe.
 At Patrick's Point we came across a cute rabbit with no fear of people.



As we returned to the campground, we also saw a herd of Elk grazing in Elk Meadow.












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