Very little sleep, but in the National park never-the-less and so up and with a cooked breakfast and packed lunch as provided by the two tour guides Adrian and Seena, we headed out into Yosemite Valley. You could spend the day as you wished so we hopped on the parks' free shuttle and first stopped at the largest Graphite Monolith in the world: "El Capitan". To look at it, it just looks like a sheer white rock face that's pretty tall but it's 3000 feet tall and with good binoculars or a telescope that someone kindly let us use, you could see these tiny little people climbing it. The record is 3 hours but most people take 3-5 days to reach the top....all crazy. Next we walked down to the Valley Falls, all dried up at this time of year but still bloomin' tall (5Th highest waterfalls in the world or something like that).
Feeling a bit knackered by now, we headed up to the Vernal Falls. The sky was blue which was nice but it meant the sun blazed down without mercy. It was a really pretty walk up to the falls but bloomin' shattering too! We eventually made it to a "that'll do" place at the falls to stop and have lunch before heading back to the "Green Tortoise" Coach.
That evening we heard what other people did, most people only seemed to have done the vernal falls walk so no wonder we were knackered! For camp that night we headed out of the park and into a place called Hartley Springs where the snow from the previous night hadn't melted. At one point it looked bad when the coach couldn't grip on the snow but eventually we made it into camp safely. My only
problem with the basically woods called a camping ground, was the toilets (or restrooms) which were dark ominous pits/holes in the ground in something no more than a shed. No lights, the smell was disgusting, plus the sheds were just out somewhere in the woods. It was horrible looking around in the dark for an old shack and then trying to find a way back to camp. Plus there were deer hunters camping around...they must be strange folk! Therefore I drank as little water as possible!
Very little sleep, but in the National park never-the-less and so up and with a cooked breakfast and packed lunch as provided by the two tour guides Adrian and Seena, we headed out into Yosemite Valley. You could spend the day as you wished so we hopped on the parks' free shuttle and first stopped at the largest Graphite Monolith in the world: "El Capitan". To look at it, it just looks like a sheer white rock face that's pretty tall but it's 3000 feet tall and with good binoculars or a telescope that someone kindly let us use, you could see these tiny little people climbing it. The record is 3 hours but most people take 3-5 days to reach the top....all crazy. Next we walked down to the Valley Falls, all dried up at this time of year but still bloomin' tall (5Th highest waterfalls in the world or something like that).
Feeling a bit knackered by now, we headed up to the Vernal Falls. The sky was blue which was nice but it meant the sun blazed down without mercy. It was a really pretty walk up to the falls but bloomin' shattering too! We eventually made it to a "that'll do" place at the falls to stop and have lunch before heading back to the "Green Tortoise" Coach.
That evening we heard what other people did, most people only seemed to have done the vernal falls walk so no wonder we were knackered! For camp that night we headed out of the park and into a place called Hartley Springs where the snow from the previous night hadn't melted. At one point it looked bad when the coach couldn't grip on the snow but eventually we made it into camp safely. My only problem with the basically woods called a camping ground, was the toilets (or restrooms) which were dark ominous pits/holes in the ground in something no more than a shed. No lights, the smell was disgusting, plus the sheds were just out somewhere in the woods. It was horrible looking around in the dark for an old shack and then trying to find a way back to camp. Plus there were deer hunters camping around...they must be strange folk! Therefore I drank as little water as possible!
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