Once we were away from the fog of S.F. the sun came out and things really warmed up... it was hot - damn hot. We slouched our sweaty way into out first WalMart (not the amazing experience we were expecting - its like Target or K-mart but without the pizazz but with actually helpful staff...) for our last camping supplies and then chugged down some sugary drinks and our first taste of jack-in-the-box... which was surprisingly pleasant - in a fast food near death fat overdose way.
Then BAM! I was floored, absolutely knocked out by how beautiful redwood country is. Lib LITERALLY had to take control of the car as I passed out from aesthetic overload and ended up "somehow" on the wrong side of the road for some reason. We got to our camp and realised that we were going to have a hard time topping this campsite on our travels as it is amazing... made us (well everyone except me) forget completely about the stupid amout of money we'd spent on camping supplies and carrying the bloody big tent halfway around the world.
We walked, we swam, we ate crappy American mashed potato powder that seems to include only glue powder and no taste, we swam some more, 
we ate horribly sweet american oatmeal with "real fruit!" blueberries (ingredients oats, sugar, colored flavored dried fig pieces) and we swam some more. The swimming was great. We also swam.
If you ever make it over this way I highly recommend camping in Burlington camp ground in the Humboldt Redwoods State Park.. but skip the dried mashed potatoes - they really do suck excruciatingly.
...the swimming is good though.
