San Francisco

I started writin this blog in Oakhurst - just outside the Yosemite National Park. We drove here Tuesday from San Francisco. It wasz about 400 miles or just over 600km. Most of it freeways or dual carriage way. There is so much traffic, it always is moving above the speed limit and at time between 4 and 8 lanes wide on one side.

Sunday

So, Sunday we headed into Monteray to see the aquarium. Monteray Bay is famous for its Bay - the waters both north and south of the Monteray Bay are a National Park. The zaquarium was great and we spent about 3 hours there. We then headed north to San Francisco where we had rented a house for a couple of days. Everyone was heading home to SF after the weekend it was about 120 miles away so an easy a fast drive particularly with GPS lady and live traffic updates giving us route changes.

The house is in za suburb called Richmond. The suburb is about 6km west of San Francisco and the street we stayed in ran down to the bay (5 blocks) where you had great views of the Golden Gate Bridge. The house could sleep eight so there was plenty of room, and there were plenty of restaurants close by.

Monday

We caught a bus into San Francisco to the centre of town and picked up an open top double deckervtourist bus that takes you around all the main sights over a couple of hours. We've done this in each of the other major cities as it is great way to learn the history and orientate yourself in that city. The San Francisco bus also crossed the Golden Gate Bridge so that was fun. You can hop off and on at designated spots zaround the city. Z We decided to to get at the SF Warf and have a very late lunch. After a wander around we grabbed a cab back to the house.

Take away food for late dinner.

Tuesday

On Tuesday morning we packed up (there were some photos already posted from my phone of packing the car in SF) and drove down to the bottom of our street for a last look at the bridge and the beach.

We then headed south east to a little place called Oakhurst. This is about 20 miles from the southern entry to Yosemite National Park. We had decided to travel through the Park on Wedneday. We arrived in Oakhurst at about 6pm - There were signs warning of bears everywhere and deers wandering around the streets.

Tony, Sophie and Gary had a swim in the pool before dinner.

Wednesday

It was going to a long day of driving but not too far in distance - 139 miles but the road is very windy. At one stage we reached a height of 9975 feet or just over 3000 meters. That's 1000 meters above Austrlaia's highest mountains.

We travelled into the park and went straight to Mariposa Grove where there are the massive Sequia tree. These trees are up to 100 feet (30 meters) in circumference, 300 feet high and 2000 years old. Massive and a great start to our day of sightseeing. We had lunch in the Yosemite Valley village and used the Internet to book our helicopter trip from Vegas to the Grand Canyon on Saturday.

Hmmmm... It's hard to describe how good this days driving was with respect to the sights we saw. I'm not sure the photos will even show the grandure. At one stop we could observe some mountain climbers on a sheer cliff called El Capitan.

We arrived in the town of Bishop where we were going to stay for the night before we head off to Las Vegas via Death Valley on Thursday.

 

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