Oakland Museum of California

We were at Oakland Museum of California.

This museum is about history, art, and natural history of California.

It is in Oakland, 10 minutes from Berkeley.

This is a pond in the museum. There are turtles and fish in this pond. 

This is a Grizzly Bear. Grizzly bears are extinct in 1920s. But this one is in the museum. Grizzly bear is also on the California flag for people to know what they have done to grizzly bears.

In the Natural History section, we can see California animals hunting for food. 

 These are some bones. 

We are inside the base of the redwood tree. You can find more information about the redwoods in our visit to Samuel P. Taylor state park.

These are the rings of the redwoods. The more lines there are, the older the tree is,
Each line means one year.

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Pine cones can grow as big as the ones you can see in this picture!

Can you see termites?

Here are some pictures under the sea.

Here are the fossils on the dinosaur bones from the past. 

In the History section of the museum, we saw a lot of things. 

Here is a piano that you can hear lots of sounds from different things such as a piano, a door bell, a dinner bell, and etc. 

 Noodles are bad for birds!!!

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Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz was awesome!!

The Boardwalk was fun. There were so many rides.
On one of the rides, there was a cavewoman sitting there. The caveman was watching her from the ground. 

We got on the Logger Revenge Ride. We got sooooooooooooooo wet. We were a little scared coz the log was coming down from a very high slope.

We had lunch on the wharf. We could see beaches, sufers, and people on the boats! It was so nice!

 



There were some sea lions under the wharf. Sina heard them and told us that there were seals or sea lions here. We knew they were sea lions, not seals, because they had ears. If you want more information about seals and sea lions, please go and look at our San Francisco folder.









The beach was freezing cold!! But we had so much fun!

The Redwoods

We stopped to look at the Redwood trees at Samuel P Taylor State Park. 

The Redwoods are one of the tallest trees in the world. Even taller than bears.

Some look like houses for people in the past and some look like castles. (as you can see in the picture below) I learned that many of them are older than 1000 years old. They appeared on Earth not long after dinosaurs. The oldest Redwood is about 2,200 years old!!

At Samuel P Taylor State Park, we saw people having a picnic and some stayed overnight for camping. It looked like a lot of fun to be there. 

Muir Beach

Muir Beach Overlook

We went on a path that took us close to the ocean. And birds have nests on the cliffs there, They flew around us. 

There was a war there. And these things behind Sina and me were where soldiers were hiding to look for enermies coming by sea. 

Then we went to Muir Beach. 

We saw a dead jelly fish. It was poisonous so we didn't touch it.

We saw a strange looking plant. 

The beach was cold and we chased the sea gulls. There were many dogs too. We want to go back there again.