Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Kings Canyon -Sequoia National Park, Oct 31, 2012


Do you like the typical tourist photo in front of the world's largest tree? It is difficult with a still camera to capture the size of these trees!

We saw a deer as we drove away. 

Now Jim thinks he is a giant in strength!

Just beyond the Visitor Center was a back road which took us up to a trail to this overlook.  The views were great!
 
 

Isn't this mountain lake beautiful!

More deer were seen on the way down the road, which was a narrow 1 1/2 lane wide.  I was happy that we had a Jeep for that road!

More fall color!

It is hard to imagine that Fedex makes it way up here in the "boonies"!

Here we are headed back to Fresno and you can see how the highway winds outside of the park!

I sure was glad that Jim was driving!

Can you see the road alongside that mountain..the cut in the hill?  We had to drive that!
 

The land, once we were down off the mountain, was like a bunch of hair.  I called these foot hills, "Hairy Moutains".

I tried to get a photo to show the grass which gave the appearance of soft, golden hair.

In the valley there were many orchards and vineyards.

For some reason the vineyards often had these towers in them.  I am not sure of their purpose.
 

This was cool to see the train go through the tunnel.
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