6/25/2011
Sam and I started the day going to Groveland’s farmer’s market – a cute little market in the local plant nursery – where we ended up buying homemade bread and jam to eat for lunch later. We then drove to Yosemite National Park – my first time there! All of Sam’s field work is in Yosemite, so she knows the roads and landmarks pretty well and thus she is an excellent tour guide for a person like me.
Yosemite Valley is the main event at the park, where you can see El Capitan (a climber’s dream), Yosemite Falls (an amazing waterfall) and Half Dome (an amazing, giant, rock). Thousands of people must visit there every day – there was a line of cars to get into the park, we had to drive around for a short while just to find a parking spot, and there were people and tents everywhere. A popular event in Yosemite is to rent a bike and bike around to see everything, which is pretty ingenious. Sam and I listened to a 15 minute talk about how Yosemite was first started, and of the families also listening to the talk two were from different countries (Greece and New Zealand) and everyone else were from different states.
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| El Capitan |
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| Half Dome |
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| Yosemite Falls |
Sam and I hiked around a bit to see Yosemite Falls and El Capitan (~ 10 miles total!). We did end up seeing a momma merganser and her 10 babies (very cute) and a weasel (my first one!) but no bears as of yet.
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| Mergansers |
"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"Wuh, I think so, Brain, but if we didn't have ears, we'd look like weasels."
In closing, remember:
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