By George
Being the July 4 weekend, some might say that a trip to Yosemite National Park might be a bad idea. Well, I say PHOOEY to that.
Michele, Leslie, Judith and I managed to avoid the swarms of people most of the time. We stayed a little out of the way at a place called White Wolf, where there are a few cabins and quite a few more tents. Even though it was full and the odd child wandered by, it was pretty nice, and above all, not in the Valley, where everyone else was.Judith did a fabulous job of picking out-of-the-way places to see (and animals, by chance), like the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, Dog Lake, Sentinel Dome and Taft Point.
We saw:
- 2 white wolves
- About 30 deer
- A huge black beetle
- a marmot
- Several scavengy rat things that are apparently gophers or some such
- Approximately 4,000,000 mosquitoes
- Dragonflies emerging from their winter coats (Actually, this was amazing - there were thousands of them in various states of emergence. Trouble was, they lived in the same neighbourhood as the mozzies.)
- White Wolf Staff Members
- Squirrels
The park only just opened so I think the animals weren't used to such company.
The girls and I saw a bear FOR REAL in THE WILDERNESS (even though we were driving on a road it happened to cross), and I took a photo of that. Today as we were leaving, we nearly had a crash because of sheer traffic anarchy that had occurred as a result of the hordes just doing whatever the hell they wanted on a one-lane, two-way road *just* so they could see a bear.
Well, of course, so did we, and there he is.