onto day six

Another big day driving north where we decided to kayak the Jedediah Smith River with a great outfitter called Redwood Rides. There was a family of four along with our family of five, a couple of women two main guides and then five kind of part time guides that went down the river with us.

We started our paddle at 1pm and finished up at 5pm. Katie and I were in a 2 person kayak as were Brad and Osten. Anders was in a solo boat. We stopped twice on our journey-the first time was to explore the forest and the second was to swim/jump from cliffs. Anders was the only brave Olson to dive from the cliffs. He doesn't think he did a great job, but as his Mom, I think he did beautifully. He also found a water gun on a river bank...score Anders!

Here are some photos from the paddle:

Then we drove to Crescent City where we hung out at the pier, Brad got some more crabs and Katie and I went for a walk. Osten was Brad's crabbing assistant and Anders hung out reading in the car.

Off to yummy pizza at Pizza King and drove home to Eureka...we happened to be in a great place to see the sunset over the Pacific...

Another pretty stellar day in the Redwood Forests.