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Yesterday we went to the Big Basin Redwoods State Park, a protected area about an hour’s drive from our home. We think this forest explains why everything the American’s make is so big. I mean, pretty much everything from cars, the freeways, to bags of chips and men’s suits are just bigger than in Europe. Big Basin is characterized by the Redwoods, or Sequoia trees. From a distance, it looks rather ordinary, but getting closer it feels like the whole world has become four times as large!
It’s hard to show in a picture, but these trees are huge.
And to be fair, everything was different from what we’re used too: the rough texture of the bark of the trees, the hard leaves of the shrubs, the giant woodpecker. Very impressive. And look at that slug! Just look at it:
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- And what’s with these giant yellow slugs!?
Just the hike would already have made our weekend, but later that day we met with Priya, Karthik and their daughter Thea. It was a wonderful evening with stories, good food and lots of fun. Koos knew Priya from his time at Novatium in Chennai and they happen to live only a few kilometers away from us. What are the odds of that!
edit: more pictures added
How extraordinary you met Priya! Kees en I have met her, her sister and parents in India. I didn’t know she was also living there. Bring her our greetings, please.
I’m very impressed by the sequoiatrees. How big they are. And the slugs…brrrr. I’m specialised in Dutch slugs. Last summer (very wet here) I found about 250 slugs in one evening in our garden. Fortunately not of that ugly yellowish colour. How big they are here? The largest ones I found, were about 12 cm.