Yosemite!

What a day of rivers, cliffs and waterfalls!

After driving into the valley and saying wow a few times we wandered up to our first waterfall (Bridal Falls) and said wow a few more times. Apparently the flow is about one third of a normal year, but as Canberrans it still seems like a lot of water.

We then stopped in at the visitor's center before catching the shuttle bus around to the start of a walk up the end of the valley to see Vernal and then Nevada falls. Thomas was great - walking up zigs and zags all the way to a lookout 1400 feet above the valley floor. We walked  through snow for part of the way, which made it quite slippery, but the sun was out. We saw plenty of squirrels but thankfully no hungry bears or mountain lions. As we came down the weather changed and it started to rain a little. We were all pretty tired afterwards and enjoyed a hot chocolate back down in the valley.