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Snapshot Saturday: Postcard #10 Muir Woods National Monument


It’s day 166 of our round-the-world trip, and our last weekend in California. Though it’s a fairly chilly afternoon, we drove to Muir Woods National Monument in Marin County, a primeval forest named after naturalist John Muir. The average age of this forest’s resident redwoods are 500-800 years old. The oldest is about 1,200 years old and the tallest is 79 meters. Not for nothing are these trees called giant redwoods.

Random trivia: Some scenes of the film “Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes” were shot here.

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Gay Mitra
When not backpacking, she teaches her daughter sight words and belly dancing (even if she's not good at it). She's currently eating her way around some hippie town in Australia. She loves talking about herself in the third person.

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