Saturday, August 20, 2011

walking among giants

The family and I just got back from a wonderful vacation camping at the sequoia national forest. It was so wonderful, breath taking, great! We all LOVED it! Here are some of the pictures. It was so wonderful I want to go again and again.



the camp site


Russ making breakfast. Here we had french toast and eggs. YUM
on one of the shuttles that take you around the park.



we got a chance to see a couple of deer during our trip here. This one was at least holding still long enough for me to be able to snap a picture.
I believe the giant sequoia in the back is Sherman.
This hollowed out entrance is out of a fallen sequoia tree.




A picture of a the group we went on a tour with. Kind of gives an idea of how BIG these trees are.
Here the roots are exposed on one of trees that had fallen down. Penelope, Kayle, and Nathan.
the ranger who gave us a nature walk.
a sequoia seed.





this was our only real sighting of a bear. We were on one of the shuttles heading back to camp from an excursion out with the kids and at one of the stops spotted a mother bear with her 2 cubs. This to me was the perfect scenerio: behind steal and glass. LOL. We did hear our campers next to us saw a bear one night. I am glad to be back home where I don't have to worry about it.

Below are pictures of us at the camp site.



dirty boy




Here are pictures of Hume lake. It was a piece of heaven for Russ and I. We could have stayed there all day long. Ahhhhh.....





Below are pictures of Beetle rock.



okay. I could go on forever with the amont of photos I took. But I only showed you the good ones. LOL.