Decker Creek

This image is not of or from Fern Canyon. It's from small Decker Creek—a mosquito-infested confluence of a small creek and redwoods—near the South Fork Eel River in the Bull Creek State Wilderness inside Redwood National Park. It's not difficult to reach, though it isn't all that easy to find. But it's worth the effort. It is a timeless place, without crowds, where the water and the mist and the sunlight and the trees are the only sounds.