Our first stop was at the southern edge of the park. We spent the night along the Merced River in the Wawona campground. As you can see here, Matt had a fabulous time playing in the river. He and a girl from another campsite explored the entire area in front of our site. You did have to watch out for snakes, though. As I was sitting on the rocks with some other women, one swam right for us.
Tuesday, we headed for Yosemite Village. They have a wonderful free shuttle service, so we parked in a day use parking lot (shuttle stop 11) for the day and caught the shuttle to explore. Stop 6 is the stop for Yosemite Falls, which is quite a nice trail. As we were walking on it towards the fall, we saw this deer, calmly eating ferns. Later, Rob spotted a bear and I was just quick enough to see it's hind end as it headed away from us. Sadly, Matt missed seeing it. Rob wins the award for spotting things, though, because he also spotted a snake, right at his feet, along this same trail. There are pictures of it, as well as lots more pics from Yosemite, at the Yosemite album here: http://picasaweb.google.com/debdistante/YosemiteNationalPark.
Isn't he handsome?
This is a nice view of both upper and lower Yosemite Falls. They were quite nice.
A shot of the entire family, at the bottom of Lower Yosemite Falls. After we finished exploring the village, we headed to the north end of the park and spent Tuesday night at Tuolumne Meadows campground. They do a nice campfire every night at 8 with a ranger program. We had a great time there. As I said, we can't wait to get back to Yosemite to explore it more fully!
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