Photograph by Jack
Ellwanger
A
five mile long crystalline granitic block in
McWay Canyon embraces a 12,000 year old redwood.
McWay Creek, which ends its journey to the ocean
in a dramatic 80-foot drop onto the beach at
McWay Cove, winds here through the granite and
redwood. The redwood’s age is estimated by the
visible iterations of the tree. A coastal
redwood does not die unless severed from its
underground network of branches. When the top is
blown down by wind or knocked off by lightening
shoots grow in its place and become a new tree
in the same tree.
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