California is not just big surf and big stars. This diverse state on America's far West mainland is nicknamed the Golden State, not for the sands of the pacific South coast, but for the precious metal plundered from the ground in the North East. The state fish may be the Golden Trout, but the official state tree is the California Redwood. Redwoods grow as much as two and three hundred feet tall- the tallest trees in the world.
California is home to America's largest city, Los Angeles. Like its home state, Los Angeles is a colourful collection of the country's best, and it's not all about the big trees. California has the lowest and highest points in the United States, outside of Alaska. Below sea level, Death Valley is a salty desert where precipitation can't keep up with the speedy evaporation. As surfers flock to the state's southern beaches, climbers scramble to the mountains of Yosemite National Park to the North. In a state as varied as California, you can't help but find it all.
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Devils Golf Course Situated in Death Valley National Park, California are the interesting salt formations of the Devil's Golf Course. |
Cloud Picture California A picture of a cloud formation with tinges of pink as the sun sets near Keeler in California, USA. |
Cloud Pictures One in my collection of cloud pictures taken near Bishop in California, USA. |
Coast Of California Rocks are pounded along the the rugged Pacific Coast of California, USA. |
Tufa Mono Lake The formations in Mono Lake in California, are made up of tufa, a porous rock composed of calcium carbonate. |
San Francisco Christmas Tree An elaborately decorated Christmas tree in downtown San Francisco in California, USA. |
Weather System Bishop California A threatening looking weather system moves in from over the Inyo Mountains near Bishop, California in the United States of America. |
Rugged California Coast Rocks jut out along the rugged coast of California in the USA. |
Harmony Borax A wagon train which was hauled by a team of 20 mules at the Harmony Borax Works in Death Valley, California, USA. |
Sunset Reflections Owens Lake The clouds are tinged with pink reflections from the sunset near Owens Lake in California, USA. |
Cloud Formation An interesting cloud formation forms near Deadman's Pass on Interstate 395, California, USA. |
Keeler California A road shot of Interstate 395 near Keeler at sunset in California, USA. |
Salt Flats Sign An interpetive sign explaining the sait flats in the Badwater Basin of Death Valley in California, USA. |
Weather Clouds Great Salt Lake The weather was changing as the clouds rolled in over Great Salt Lake during sunset in Utah. |
California Coast Pictures A person is dwarfed with a background of waves along the California Coast in the USA. |
White Gold Death Valley An interpretive sign about white gold or Borax in Death Valley National Park, California, USA. |
San Francisco Christmas Tree Picture A Christmas tree picture situated in the downtown core of San Francisco in California, USA that makes the spirit of Christmas alive. |
San Francisco City Travel A fun way to travel through the city streets of downtown San Francisco is by cable car. |
Desert Gold A wildflower found in Death Valley in California is Desert Gold otherwise known as Geraea canescens. |
Mono Lake Picture California USA An elevated view and aerial picture over Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve in California, USA. |
Borax A sign along the Harmony Borax Works Interpretive Trail in Death Valley National Park, California, USA. |
Harmony Borax Works The remains of the Harmony Borax Works in Death Valley National Park of California, USA. |
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