Hello everyone!!!
I have posted pictures from my camping trip to the HUGE old growth redwoods at Big Basin Redwoods State Park... And so many of you have asked for some more from the trip. So I thought I would post some more.
This is one of the old signs that still adorn the south entrance to the park... It is on the side of the road, and I just kinda stopped in the middle of the road and hung out the window and snapped this picture.
This one is sunrise in the park... The sun shining through the redwoods make for a dramatic picture. Can you see the hula hoop in the foreground? Yeah, my niece loves that thing!
The pictures do not do the HUGE trees justice! This was on a small hike that my son and I took in the morning... This is one the few remaining old growth redwood forests that exhist in the area. some of the trees are close to 350 feet tall!
Most of the trunks of these trees would take 10-15 people to reach all the way around...
-Chris
Sometimes you have to stop and just stand in awe at the things that mother nature makes. I went camping a few weeks ago in Big Basin Redwoods State Park in California, and this is what we get to see!
My son and I propped my camera on a post and ran over to take a picture. It was a chilly morning, but since there was parking I was able to pull my truck over and snap this picture!
I took my camera and snapped this picture of the top of the tree... So if you think of both pictures at the same time, you can see how tall and HUGE the trees are.
There are only a few patches of forest out this way that are considered "old growth" forests... The survived the logging that occurred when the west was built up.
If you are ever in the area, it is well worth the trip!
-Chris Alston
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Living in Saratoga on the Cupertino border, there is train tracks that kinda travel right through the neighborhood. I mean, right through the neighborhood. Every time I go to work, or head home I cross this rail crossing. It is located at the intersection of Prospect and Stelling in Cupertino.
I have heard a train once, but never was able to see it. Then, heading out camping with my son a few Fridays back, I caught the train! My son was sooooo thrilled! You can see the houses on the other side of the tracks, so you can see that it is right there...
We were so excited to see a train, crumbing through our neighborhood at the bottom of the hill... So we chased it down to the next crossing on De Anza Blvd. We pulled into the pool store parking lot and watched it slowly lumber down the tracks...
This made for great conversation the rest of the day! The train comes maybe once a week or less...
In Cupertino, there is a rock quarry on the hill called "Lehigh Cement Plant". It has been making cement since 1939 and at times has provided up to 1/2 the cement used to build roads, bridges and buildings in Silicon Valley. Previously called Hansen Cement, and before that it was called Kaiser Cement and owned by Henry J Kaiser, and assisted in providing concrete for the Shasta Dam.
-Chris Alston
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CEO and Team Leader of Keller Williams Realty Cupertino, California. Keller Williams University Approved Trainer, a National Public Speaker & Consultant and a nice guy!
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