Day 34 - Mariposa (Yosemite)

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Day 34 – Saturday – Mariposa, California

Well today we took a meandering drive through Yosemite National Park...it was bee-ewww-tiful (and BIG!). Once again, it was striking how different all the national parks here are and Yosemite was nothing like the others we had been through.

First of all there was a HEAP of snow, huge mountains (the Sierra Nevada range), lots of waterfalls (some of the largest in the US), meadows, bigggg rocks (Half Dome and El Capitan are two of the more famous ones - El Capitan is apparently the largest basalt monlith in the world), big trees and just all in all gorgeous scenery.

We mostly ambled through in the cars, stopping along the way at various look outs and of course for lunch. We spent the night in a small town called Mariposa just outside of the park.

Hrmm I guess I dont have too much interesting to say upon reflection...again, i'll let the photos tell the story.

Oh ok, of vague interest, although probably not as funny if you werent there...but we didnt check in to our hotel until about 10pm so Kate & Toni called it a night, but Dean, John, Jen & I went in search of food. In a town as small as Mariposa the only open place was Burger King (well even THAT wasnt open but the drive through was)...

Anyway, John had a moronic moment and asked which bloody thing he should place the order at as we drove down...and Jen blandly answered "the first one, the other one is a BIN John". Well we cried with laughter until John quite rightly commented on the fact that in Disneyland a few weeks ago a bin wheeled on up to him and started talking so how was he to know where to order!!!!

LOL.

"Dean's Details" – More rocks, more water, more cliffs....still cool!

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Photos

Dean & I in the snow
Enjoying the snow! We dont get much of it (err NONE) back home so it's a real novelty

Snow Angel
Dean laying in the snow! (Yes he got a wet bum!!)

Jen & I
In front of Ellery Lake with the amazing mountains in the background

Be Bear Aware
We didnt see any bears, but we did see this!

Dean & I
At one of the look out points

Waterfall
In front of Bridal Veil falls

El Capitan
Yup..it's big!

Pretty
Looking across one of the meadows

Deano
One of the BIG trees

The stupendous six
The six of us in front of one of the fallen trees. The roots are amazing

Dean...same tree
Perspective shot

Teeny Tiny Toni
In front of the Bachelor and the Three Graces

Artsy Shot
Us being dorks

Deer
These fellas just seemed to come out of nowhere as we were walking down the path!

Half Dome
In front of Half Dome

Comments

[Bernie]

This is great
Sounds and looks like you're having a wow of a time. Its amazing to see a place with no Eucalyptus Trees.

[Nicola]

Lots of great pics for ya scrapbooking sarah!!!

[Boyd]

great pictures guys looks like a huge park .. keep having fun