Yosemite 2

Our second day at Yosemite started at the Tuolumne grove of giant sequoias. These trees grow up to 200 feet high, and as you can see, their trunks grow big enough that you can carve out a space to drive a car through. They're the big cousins of the redwoods on the California coast.

We ate lunch on a gravel bar in the river, where Megan and Katie went for a swim. Then drove an hour up to Glacier Point, where these spectacular views of the valley were shot. The two on the left are of Half Dome mountain from slightly different angles. The upper left picture was taken sraight down the valley. The last shows two waterfalls not visible from the valley floor.

After saying a reluctant goodbye to Yosemite, we traveled back to Sacramento where the girls flew home.