We left our tent/cabin/tabin in Curry Village after a quick breakfast to drive to the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. That is such a cool name. I'll include a picture of where we drove below.
Anyway. We drove over the river (I think?) and through the woods and out of Yosemite National Park and back in Yosemite National Park to get to Hetch Hetchy Reservoir (and had some park pass issues on the way, but no worries. All good.). The drive took around 1.5 hrs, just like pretty much any drive from Yosemite Valley to any other major place will take. The Hetch Hetchy Reservoir was made by a dam, the (let me get this spelling right) O'Shaughnessy Dam. Nailed it. We decided to take a "relaxing" (sure...) walk through the tunnel (yeah, there was a tunnel. It was cool. See below for pics.) and see what was on the other end. So my mom, Sock Monkey, Spock, and I went through the tunnel and adventured while my dad stayed behind and was boring. His loss. Pictures, now.
After going through the tunnel, walking a bit farther, turning around, going back through the tunnel, and back out, we took a few more pictures before heading back to Curry Village and Yosemite Valley in general. On the way back, we stopped by a campsite of some sort, maybe called Mather Ranch? Either way, we stopped there and had a cold pizza lunch with the remainder of yesterday's dinner. Also, on the drive back, there were these purple-ish flowers that I thought was lupine but I have no guarantees, so if you know what it is, please comment and tell me. I'll include the picture below.
We stopped by the Swinging Bridge on the way there to get some pictures and whatnot. And, yes, it was a swinging bridge. Genius people who named this thing. See below.
Afterwards, we drove past and decided to stop at El Capitan Picnic Area and go climber-watching. We met a lady whose husband was actually climbing El Capitan at the moment and she pointed him out and showed us a few other cool rock-climbing things, like what to pack, what to carry, how the climbers carried it, etc. And it was raining. After that, we headed back to Curry Village and had Ramen Noodles for dinner as opposed to pizza. We "borrowed" some hot water from the restaurant and basically had noodles with ham and other goodies for dinner. After dinner, we headed for the Internet cafe. I take that back. We were already in the Internet cafe. So we pulled out our tech-y stuff and did things/played board games because they had them :D. So, I think I am about done, so questions, comments, etc, comment board is somewhere below this post so check that out, please! Until next time, thanks for reading!
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| World's Highest Pressure Shower |
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| Can I go read that dam sign? |
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| He's supernatural...extraterrestrial. |
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| Sock Monkey glows! |
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| Chill. |
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| Smells like jasmine and unwashed sock monkeys (okay, just kidding)... |
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| Waterfalls in the distance. |
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| Who says you can't have a beach in the middle of California? |
The wildflowers at Hetch Hetchy was bit of disappoint. But I do like the smell of purple flower. Watching the climbers climbing the El Capitan, it was AWESOME.
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Are those lavender???They looked beautiful though.
ReplyDeleteSecond last picture is soooo dramatic!!!
Lupine, actually. They smelled like jasmine though. And they were pretty. :) Thank you for being one of the few people who actually listen to me at the end of each post and comment!!! Thank you!! I reward you with a lollipop and some well-earned bragging rights :)
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