Saturday afternoon in West Seattle

I just moved into a new place in West Seattle with my girlfriend and have been looking at towering columns of boxes. It was time for a distraction and some exercise, and to look at some towering trees instead. Grabbed a couple poop-sacks and the leash and had 2 nice walks around Lincoln Park and on the beach with Max today, one in the morning, and one near sunset. I don't think there's a better park for such a wide variety of big-tree viewing in Seattle, although it's not by any means dominant as  this has to be one of the greatest big cities on the planet for tree viewing.

Here's a shot from the beach overlook in Lincoln park. I'm actually straddling the first Y of this tree and although it's only about 10 vertical feet from the base, it's overhanging a 50 foot drop. safe to get into this position but definitely shroinky!

Another shot from the beach overlook trail looking down on the beach path. Note the person walking down on the beach trail and follow your eye up heighth of the douglas firs. You can look straight into the crowns of many of these trees from the overlook,  with people walking by their bases 200 feet below on the beach trail.

I dropped my girlfriend off for work later in the afternoon and it was just too nice, and Max thought so too, whining in the backseat for another walk. So it was off near my new place to look at this massive Seqouia tree pictured below, and then back to Lincoln park for another hour of indulging the dog and tree viewing.

That's it for this day's blog, but as far as discovering more redwoods around Seattle, the bottom line is that they are all over the place if you keep an eye out. I have to write a blog one of these days just listing the locations of all of the biggest redwoods and seqoias i've seen so far, hundreds of seqouias and at least a couple of hundred redwood trees I've seen that are 100 feet or more. There are around 100 in Lincoln Park alone fitting this description. They blend in very discreetly with other tall trees and usually go unnoticed, and I've only explored a scratch of Seattle so far. It will be really interesting to not only see how many total grow in the city and surrounding area, but how many are 100 feet or more. It will be incredible if mankind is still around and Seattle is still around in another 100 years as these trees will dominate in heighth everywhere they grow by then.