While we were there, we hiked the North Grove Trail, which has many Giant Sequoias. I will share a few things including some facts we learned about the trees! :)
Giant Sequoias can live more than 3,000 years. Most have roots that spread over an acre!
The largest redwoods weigh approximately 2,600 tons--as much as 18 blue whales!
To get a size estimate, here are a couple photos:
One particular tree that we saw fell due to a fire 20 years before the Civil War started!!
It is pictured below with a brass band and troop of cavalry from the 1800s:
"But now ask the beasts, and they will teach you; and the birds of the heavens, and let them tell you; or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea, they will declare to you. Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?" ~Job 12:7-9
Love,
Ava Katherine <3
Sweet:) We went there ones, and the trees are so big!! It's amazing to see all of what God has made!;)
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