Day 28..Sequoia Nat Park
Woodpeckers woke us, destroying the wooden powerpoles. They really seem to like them. You’d think that the power companies might use concrete ones!
Anyway, headed up into the park. Would have to be the windiest road we’ve been on here. Sort of like the Takaka hill but without any straight bits at all! Finally had a woodpecker pose for us as well. This is a lovely place. Very quiet amongst the trees. Heaps of wildlife, squirrels birds and lizards. Coming round one of the myriad bends, and a black (but very brown) bear had just crossed the road, and we were the first on the scene. Ali spotted it, as I was busy steering around the corner. Caused our first traffic jam. Quite a nice looking animal, and not the least bit interested in us, wandered up the hill disappearing into the forest. Lovely to watch. The stillness of the forest is something else. May have something to do with how huge these trees are. They certainly have a presence. Apparently some are around 3000 years old, so I guess they have the right to be majestic. If only they could tell us what they have experienced. Nice that there aren’t that many people here right now.
Interesting to note that in something a little over 24 hours we have had a temp change of about 25 degrees C. Quite a cool 13 out here at the moment. We are stopped right now, in a que for road works.. been over half an hour already, but now less than 10 minutes.. oh.. seems like another bear has been spotted.. must go check it out..
Ok.. So Ali went and did the checking.. but nothing to report. So we left Sequoia and after a few hours found ourselves an RV park at a place called something like Oakdale.. or Oakridge.. anyway.. had dinner at a nice little place called the Ol Kettle.. and set up camp for the night. Forgot to mention a road name we thought would be great if you were able to use such whilst playing Scrabble… Zzyzc Rd. If you could land that on a triple word score it would be a game winner!
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