Sequoia National Park

Escrit el 10/07/2008

Despres del desgast fisic d'ahir, hem dormit com angelets ... 10 horetes ben merescudes. I ja veient el nostre desti final (Los Angeles), hem fet un detour d'uns 300km per visitar els arbres gegants (sequoies) de Sequoia National Park.

Hi ha molts tipus de sequoies, xo les del parc aquest son especials xq nomes creixen naturalment en aquesta zona, a una altitud determinada ... I son grans i massissos. I poden ser moolt "iaios". El mes famos, el General Sherman Tree, fa 11 metres de diametre, es tant alt com l'estatua de la llibertat i te, creuen, uns 2200 anys!

El bosc sembla encantat. Les sequoies creixen entre els pins (tipus redwood, sugarpines i ponderosa) i s'alcen grossos i majestuosos. Pero tb son delicats ... La majoria moren caiguts xl seu propi pes. Aixi hi ha coses curioses com un tunel foradat a una sequoia o un altre q fa de pasarela caminable.

Ens hem parat a sopar a Visalia, a fer un rodizio brasiler (carn, una mica mes de carn, i llavors mes carn). Molt bo ... Ara, quina calor q fot aqui! Com ahir a Fresno. Aixo de la vall central de California es insuportable ... Sort, q dema ens banyarem a la platja de los "Vigilantes de la playa" ... Ja us explicarem :)

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PS - Nota mental publica ... q guapes les "Park Rangers" americanes (Ranger Melissa de Denali; Ranger Amelia i la Ranger sensenom de Sequoia) :)

After yesterday's physical effort, today we sleep like babies. 10 very deserved hours. And now that we already have our final destination (LA) in sight, we still make a small detour (300km) to visit the giant trees at the Sequoia National Park.

There are many types of sequoias, but the one in this park are special because they only grow naturally here (something to do with climate, rain, altitude, ...). These trees are huge and thick ... and can get to be very old. The most famous, General Sherman Tree, is 11 meters in diameter, as tall as the Statue of Liberty and is, they believe, some 2200 years old.

The forest is enchanted. Sequoias grow among the pines (redwoods, sugarpines and ponderosa types) and they grow magnificent and big. But they are also delicate ... most of them die fallen by their own weight. This way, curios tings like a tunel drilled through a sequoia or another which is a walk-way.

We stopped for dinner at Visalia, to eat a brazilian rodeo (meat, some more meat and then some more ... all you can eat). But men! it is hot in here ... just like Fresno. This weather of the central California valley is real bad :) Lucky us, tomorrow we'll be swimming at the "Baywatch" beach ... we'll tell you!

PS - Mental note: US Park Rangers women are real hotties (Ranger Melissa in Denali; Ranger Amelia and Ranger Jane Doe in Sequoia) :)

[Entrance of the park]

[above and below ... General Sherman Tree]

[above and below ... fallen sequoias!]