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Day 6: Wednesday June 11

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Today we left our campsite in the north of Lassen Volcanic National Park around 7am to drive the 2 hours around the park (because of winter road closures) to the south end of the park. Those sure were some tiny and windy roads!

South entrance
Caleb is not enjoying the smell here…
Mud pot boiling away
My favourite flowers that are along the sides of the road, especially when there is still snow.

We are driving to the coast of California now. Caleb says Mark would love this road. It’s like a racetrack going up and around these mountains.

Wiggly GPS line!
Feels like we’ve been driving in circles!
The Pacific Ocean!

We dropped our trailer at our campsite for the night quickly and headed off to do three hikes before the sunset. We are camping at Sue-Meg (pronounced Soo-May) State Park Campground which is right on the ocean… but we can’t hear or see the waves from our site.

The highlight of my day: Fern Canyon
We had to walk past these elk at the start of the Fern Canyon hike.
Some of Jurassic Park 2 was filmed here.
Hiking through the ferns!
Caleb is (very) worried about the bears and Isla is (slightly) worried about the cougars.
Caleb is asking to go back to sit in the truck. This is the Tall Trees Hike that I had to book in advance and get emailed the lock code the day before to access the trail. They only let a select few in to allow a more remote experience. We saw not a soul.
Banana slug!
Two sweet girls!
Climbing on everything!
The drive between Tall Trees trailhead and Lady Bird was giving real Twilight Vibes (Mom that’s a vampire movie).
Lady Bird Johnson Grove
My happy place
The pink Rhododendrons are gorgeous and everywhere throughout the huge trees.
Road sign on a bridge on the way back to our campsite.

The day started out in a cold (8ish degrees) volcano, peaked at over 33 degrees midday and now is a chilly 11 degrees on the coast. Brrrr

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