Redwood National and State Park is located in northernmost coastal California—about 325 miles north of San Francisco, CA. Roughly 50 miles long, the parklands stretch from near the Oregon border in the north to the Redwood Creek watershed southeast of Orick, CA. Five information centers are located along this north-south corridor.
Redwood National and State Park is generally oriented along the north-south U.S. 101 highway corridor between Crescent City and Orick, CA (~40 miles). Numerous other roads and highways (including scenic drives) provide access to areas throughout the parks.
We entered in Redwood Park from Crescent City. We reached the coast of California leaving I-5 in Grand Pass, OR and driving southwest on Road 199, on our way from Seattle, WA to Puerto Penasco, Mexico in the end of July 2016, till connection with US 101 before Crescent. We stopped to take some photos when we first noticed tick tees around the road and later on the way till Eureka, CA when we slept first evening. We traveled almost 600 miles (1,000 km) from Seattle to Eureka. Redwood Park was the only interested environment around the road. Later we sow similar tick cheddar trees around Downtown Carmel, CA and on our way back to Seattle in Yosemite Nat. Park. We took only 30 photos shown in this small post-album.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium is one of California's most popular attractions. It's often rated as a top family destination in the U.S. It takes about half a day to tour at a leisurely pace and can sometimes be very crowded. We visited it in the end of July 2016 on our way to Mexico from Seattle, driving around Pacific Coast of California. It was no so crowded and we spent about 5 hours to see all galleries. We stopped almost everywhere inside and outside – the ocean side. It is the best aquarium in USA, may be in the world. It has may be the best collection of sharks. We saw similar aquariums in Jan. 1998 in New Orleans, La and in Sept.2007 in Melbourne, Australia, but the were not sow big and not so rich.
Today, more than 30 years after opening, the Monterey Bay Aquarium is a showcase for the habitats and sea life of one of the world's richest marine regions.
More than 35,000 creatures representing over 550 species fill 34 major galleries. With nearly 200 exhibits in all, the Aquarium is a window to the wonders of the ocean. We both with Margy took 88 photos, all of them are shown in this post-album.
