Drama with the bus this morning - we all got out there at the appointed time only to find our suitcases still waiting to be stowed and the scary sight of a repair truck beside the bus, still at the back of the parking lot.
We eventually got away about two hours late. There was talk of having to get a replacement bus, but in the end the driver and the tow truck man managed to fix it with a lot of help over the phone - it was actually a computer problem.
On the way, we stopped at a lovely little place called Oakhurst in the Sierra Nevadas and I think we decided that it wins over Sedona as the right place to retire to!
Anyway, we got to Yosemite and got to spend the planned amount of time there, we were just late arriving in Sonora, which is no great problem.
Yosemite National Park = spectacular, awesome, any of those sorts of words apply!
I've added some photos of:
El Capitan - the biggest granite outcrop in the world - that's the last of the pictures above; El Capitan is the huge outcrop on the left,
The Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls - it's really hard to get a picture of the scale here, so to put it into perspective - just the lower falls are higher than the Niagara Falls!
Half Dome Rock - really popular hiking and climbing destination
I've also posted a picture of Paul's feet beside the tiny wall around the edge of this spectacular viewing point we stopped at - that wall is all that's there to stop you from going over the edge. The very first picture shows where you'd fall if you happened to trip over the edge - the cars on the road below are just tiny little ants and it's almost straight down. We noticed this at the Grand Canyon too - in the most litigious place on earth, basically non-existent fences around cliffs that would have enormous protective stuff in place in Australia!
Big excitement on the trip while leaving Yosemite was a sighting of a bear - unfortunately those on our side of the bus didn't get a chance to see it.
Off to bed soon to rest up for the big trip into San Francisco tomorrow!
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