* Redwood Coast Thaaanngs!

Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park

Trip Date: Sept. 19-20, 2009

Saturday morning 9/20

Brown's Creek/Rhododendron Trail Loop

At the start

Wyatt getting a picture

Marcie saving Wyatt from a falling tree...OK, maybe not

Rhododendron

Overgrown creek

Wyatt on trail

The underside of the clover was red

Friday 9/19

Afternoon at Fern Canyon & Gold Bluffs Beach

Elk in marsh at the Fern Canyon Trailhead.

Entering Fern Canyon.

Marcie & Wyatt climb over a log jam.

Up the creek.

Wyatt & Marcie moving deep into Fern Canyon way past the point where most turn around.

On the return.

We climbed out of the canyon and onto the James Irwin Trail for a loop back to the start.

Old decaying boardwalk on the James Irwin Trail above Fern canyon.

Back at the trailhead, we took a walk out to the beach.

Resting Elk.

Wyatt skipping stones on the great Pacific.

In the morning we hiked the Elk Prairie Loop. It's about 2 miles long and circumnavigates the prairie near the campground.

At the start.

Marcie & Wyatt as we entered the forest on the east side.

Some form of berry. I haven't looked them up yet. Salmon or Huckelberry?

Forest Fungi

Along the trail.

Ferns.

Elk encounter.