Drive from Santa Rosa to Eureka, California coast

We drove from Santa Rosa to Eureka on the northern California coast on our way up to Salem Oregon today via the famed highway 101 and what a spectacular drive it is through the redwoods. Some are so close to the road there is little room to manouver. Diesel - $4.45/gal. the most expensive so far.

Rocky outcrop on way to Eureka.

Willits gateway to the Redwoods State Forest.

Coffee Break in a nice layby.

There are numerous places selling these huge timber carvings along the roadside.

Wall to wall of pine trees.

Eel River.

There are several scenic stopovers along Highway 101 but as we wanted to be in Salem by the 17th, we did not stop and sample any of them.

Huge redwood trees and winding roads!

Canopy of trees-some of the roads required headlights on.

Yes the Yeti apparently lives on but we didn't stop to check him out.

One of the homes peppered along 101.

On arrival in Eureka we made camp at a place called Mad River Rapids RV Resort 7 miles north of Eureka http://madriverrv.com/ a rather basic but friendly RV park right on highway 101, clean, presentable and cheap.

I had promised Betty that this was the part of the world to have seafood and that we should eat out, after driving into Eureka and wandering around we settled on a seafood restaurant and we were not disappointed the quality of the food was excellent. We started with a Dungenous crab cocktail which was full of crab meat and then I had Halibut and Betty had Sole both dishes were huge and delicious. A great meal at a fair price and a good way to finish off a long day.