Visit to Taylor Redwoods near Petaluma, CA

Walked beneath the redwoods in the groves in the Samuel Taylor Park, on Sir Francis Drake Highway, near Pt. Reyes.   Lovely spot; walked for three miles, crossing bridge and bubbling creek, a real luxury in California, where Coho Salmon and trout swim, and saw black tailed deer, along with chipmunks, and identified beautiful Douglass Fir.   Like Rittenhouse in Philadelphia, who early established a paper mill, Taylor provided all the paper for the newsprint in SF, from his mill here in the early days the park commemorates his presence and contribution. 

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