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Soon after we landed in San Francisco, we were whisked off to Yosemite National Park. It is awesome! Aunt Edwina visited this park a few years ago in the summertime, so you can see some of her photos too.

Yosemite Valley is an area of the Sierra Nevada, a range of mountains to the east of San Francisco.
	The Merced River winds its way along the bottom of Yosemite Valley.
	3 million years ago, a layer of ice covered this region. The rock in the foreground of this picture was ground flat by a glacier. In the distance is El Capitan, the largest granite monolith in the world, and a great challenge for climbers. Too big for me!
	Yosemite National Park has three groves of giant sequoia trees - this one is in the Merced Grove. These trees are up to 3,000 years old! They are called 'giant' because of their enormous girth - the General Sherman Tree is 42m in circumference.
	This little animal came to see us when we stopped for a rest. He is a marmot and is about the size of a small cat - not much bigger than me in fact!

 

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