If you go down in the woods today...

Welcome to Muir Woods National Monument!

"This is the best tree-lovers monument that could possibly be found in all the forests of the world," declared conservationist John Muir when describing the majestic coast redwoods of Muir Woods.

Here are some pics of Muir Woods north of the Golden Gate bridge - so called Muir Woods National monument after a conservationist John Muir. As the story goes this rich guy purchased the land many years ago and then named it in honour of Mr Muir. And what a monument it is - it is old growth Californian Redwoods, simply breathtaking!

I have been down to Tasmania & also to Victorian old growth forests but this place is just incredible. Redwoods are so straight and when they are this old they are so tall, you practically have to bend over backwards to see the top of the tree!

Pics are of a grove of trees in the forest, a banana slug (that's a big slug!), ladybirds settling down for the winter. Bottom pic is a sign to no where, we climbed up many stairs (blog entry to follow) and found this sign - man where do we go from here!!