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Click into the ocean deep. You can smell the sea here too, salty with hints of brine and sea shells.

The road turns away from the coast as you keep driving.

The landscape changes indicate that you've been driving for a while. The trees were one small

and marled, growing from the rocky liches that overlook the sea.

Now they are large towering pines and oaks.

You keep driving. Watching as the ground grows a bit drier.

Shadows lay across the front windshield of your car as you pass beneath twisting branches

high above. A light rain shower comes and goes, bringing a fresh drink to the dry land.

Over the crest of a distant hill, a rainbow briefly appears only to fade away as the rain passes.

The landscape becomes more rugged, more elevated, and the trees themselves grow taller and taller.

Their trunks wider and wider.

Before you know it, you find yourself among giants.

You park the car off to the side of the road in a little place meant for curious adventures like yourself.

Pine needles crunch softly beneath your feet. The forest smells earthy but fresh.

These trees around you are so tall, their canopies so dense that you can hardly see the blue sky above.

It peaks in and around branches here and there.

The trunks are deep brown with a touch of red, like pian pepper dashed across their bark.

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