The Largest Living Things

After visiting the oldest living things last weekend, the Bristlecone Pines in the White Mountains, this weekend it was time to visit the largest living things, the Giant Redwoods (Sequoia Giganteum) in the Calveras Big Trees State Park.

This park is just a couple of hours away from Sacramento and is one of the most northerly groves of these monster trees here in the Sierra Nevadas. They are truly amazing things - bigger and taller than anything else in the forest with huge branches way up top that are larger than the trunks of most other trees. Alas no pictures that I can take can do justice to these fine specimens.

Next week I will have to visit the tallest living things the Coastal Redwoods (Sequoia Sempervirens). We have them all here in little old California.

Here are some more photos.