The Beautiful Pacific Coast
The Hearst Castle was nice enough to let us come through on another tour in order to re-take photographic memories from the experience and so we were excited to do so. Afterward we went back up to the Elephant Seal Beach and fed dozens of friendly squirrels.
We left there driving straight to Yosemite National Park and although we didn't have time for any long hikes to waterfalls or the half dome before dark, but, we were able to do a two mile hike up to the Giant Sequoia trees, and giant is an understatement. They were all massive and beautiful. We felt so small and couldn't help but think about all the Native Americans that used to live in the forest before the white men headed west.
Andrew demonstrating how large the split in the "walk through tree" is!
A HUGE sequoia over turned and this is the root system that lifted out of the soil!
We drove for a number of hours across the park during the night and stopped for a couple catnaps along the way. At the start of that trek we had 18 hours until our next destination in Yellowstone National Park a couple of states away.
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