Tuesday, October 17th 2023
The weather was better the following day and we wanted to go back to Crescent City and Jedidiah to do some additional exploring and hiking. Although the weather was cool, it was a beautiful day with beautiful scenery and Jedidiah had a different feel with the sun.
We started with driving along the ocean, stopping in and around Crescent city to appreciate the coast line. We actually ran into our tour guide from the day before when wet stopped at one of the beaches. We then headed back into Jedidiah Redwoods state park.
A couple of years back, I had pulled a page out of a “Visit California” magazine that had an article called “A Geek’s Guide to California”, there was a picture of a man standing in a Redwood Grove looking up with a smaller picture below with had George Lucas, next to Princess Leah, Chewbacca, Hans Solo, C3PO and R2D2 with redwood trees behind them. The article talked about the Sci-Fi movies that had been filmed in the area.
It wasn’t there to find the exact places where E.T. finally went home or the areas that served as also served as the moon of Endor, home of the Ewoks in the Return of the Jedi, the scenes in Jurassic Park: The Lost World, but it made me want to explore it even more. Continue reading
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