{"id":3086,"date":"2016-07-21T15:57:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T20:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverdoves.com\/blog\/?p=3086"},"modified":"2019-05-06T14:40:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T19:40:50","slug":"maiden-voyage-part-3-northern-california-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/silverdoves.com\/blog\/maiden-voyage-part-3-northern-california-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Maiden Voyage | Part 3 – Northern California Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Part 3 of our Maiden Voyage! If you haven’t seen part 2, you can check it out here: Our Maiden Voyage | Part 2 – Tahoe to Arcata<\/a>\u00a0and here is Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n

Fern Canyon<\/h2>\n

The next morning found me anxious because I had planned a lot of things for the day and I was nervous that we wouldn’t be able to experience them all. Everything we planned to see was within the 60 miles or so from Arcata to Crescent City, CA along the coast, so we started the drive early, heading north on 101. Our first adventure on the road was to be Fern Canyon<\/a>. I hadn’t been there before, but I spent extensive time on Trip Advisor reading reviews which assured it was worth the slight detour. Immediately after\u00a0we exited the highway at “Elk Valley” we witnessed\u00a0it’s namesake. There was a huge herd of elk grazing (is that what they do?) in the meadow. A bunch of cars had pulled off for some pictures and I was tempted, but I knew we had limited time and was eager to see the canyon, so we drove onward. I was kind of hoping they would be there on our way back, but they weren’t. Luckily, Steven snagged a couple shots from the window on our way.<\/p>\n

After a short detour into the state park where the canyon is located, we parked and hiked to the canyon. It was just as gorgeous as I’d hoped! I’m glad we visited in the morning because the light was fantastic. It was streaming down through the trees into the canyon as we trekked\u00a0through. It was easy hiking along the creek bed as we walked a little deeper into the canyon. Miles immediately stomped his feet right\u00a0into the creek and gathered stones to throw into the water. We took our time wandering into the canyon and taking pictures. It was great, with\u00a0walls of ferns on both sides. We went a few bends in and felt that we’d seen plenty impressive views of the canyon and turned back to head to our car.<\/p>\n

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