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Published: July 16th 2008
Our next stop the
"Sequoia National Park".
This one is on our list of "to do's".
We just have to see
"General Sherman!" For those that don't know, this a giant Sequoia tree,
"the biggest tree on the whole planet!!!" So with camera in hand, we went in search of this giant of the forest.....
But first we had to travel though the park.
The views as ever were great, but they were marred by smoke polution from the forest fires around this area.
(Sequoia and Kings Canyon suffer from one of the worst air-pollution problems of any national park!
Pollution, particularly ozone from the Central Valley and the Bay Area is carried up into these mountains by warm winds. When we eventually found the General, we weren't disappointed, This tree is believed to be, between 2,300 and 2,700 years old.
It is as tall as a 27 story buliding.
A thirteen story building would barely touch its first huge branch.
The base diameter of the tree is 11 metres (36 feet).
If the tree were placed in the middle of
Tunnel Rock...
Looks like the original road used to run under this rock....a three-lane freeway, it would completely block all three lanes.
And the surface area of General Sherman's trunk is 12,000 square feet.
Being next to it made us feel, very, very small indeed.
Makes you wonder how many more years he'll go on for..............
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