The one place that supposedly we were supposed to get fishing tackle at (it is not like there are multiples of anything inside the Smith River NRA) was closed. Maybe they had "gone fishin". Unfortunately that left us tackleless...but we didn't let that get us down....we decided to go hiking instead! We stopped at the visitor center for Redwood State and National Parks to find hikes to do.
We spent almost an hour in the park visitor center talking with a ranger about different hikes, drives, the history of the park, different tree bark types, the watershed, logging, whales, and an endangered seabird that nests in the old growth forests. Will and I thought it was really interesting but apparently Leslie cannot concentrate on anything while standing up.
The first hike that we did (or, more like a stroll) was the stout road trail - a short half mile loop. It was a great introduction to seeing some really cool lookin redwoods.
The next hike was on the Boy Scout Trail, a much tougher 3.7 mile trail (X2) out which ended at a waterfall. On the way, we detoured to see a the boy scout tree (a big redwood).
After forfeiting lunch , we did the Damnation Creek Trail. This took us 1000 feet down to the coast, then up that 1000 feet back to the car. It was 2.5 miles (5 miles total round trip). Surprisingly, we made better time coming back uphill than down. The difficulty class of this trail was six (out of six). I had to drag Leslie and Will but once they saw all the old people walking up that had done it they felt like they had to do it...haha. The view at the rocky beach below was well worth the hike back up.
We arrived in Eureka at the Carter House Inn just in time to shower before heading out to the Lost Coast Brewery for dinner. We saw lots of kinetic sculpture people there - what AMAZING costumes.
Then we drove down to Eureka
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