Bear sighting 5
2023年6月22日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
After dinner we wandered down to the beach and 901 was coming along with her 3 COYs. We watched them for about an hour before she turned around and led them back down the peninsula away from us.
Brooks Camp
2023年6月22日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
A really slow start today, who would have thought I would have a lie in a tent?
After breakfast we walked out to the falls again. We heard there was a porcupine but we didn’t see it.
We hung outもっと詳しく
Bear sighting 6
2023年6月23日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
The top of a head and 2 blond fluffy ears waggling off into the woods. We continued down our path and stopped to watch the birds on the bridge and the bear popped out of the other side of the forest.もっと詳しく
Last full day at Brooks Camp
2023年6月24日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C
I was awoken early for beaver 🦫 spotting. We got up around 5.15am and walked to the bridge. We hung around watching the scenery and wildlife, fortunately it wasn’t raining. Just after 6am we sawもっと詳しく
Bear sighting 7
2023年6月24日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
We were just sitting on the bridge when we saw a bear coming out onto the spit. We watched it walk out along the spit into the lake, leaping after seagulls.
It then came back into land and moochedもっと詳しく
Bear sighting 8
2023年6月25日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌧 7 °C
901 and her 3 cubs were out on the beach this morning. The small cubs were up on their hind legs play fighting with each other.
We only saw them from a distance.
Last morning at brooks
2023年6月25日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C
We awoke to pouring rain 🌧️, not what we wanted on tent pack up day. Never mind 🤷♀️. I got all the bags I had brought for this eventuality and we got everything packed down and into theもっと詳しく
Bear sightings 9
2023年6月25日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
Just as we got back on the bridge I saw a big male to the left in the marsh area. We watched him for a while as he ate grass and swam across the river. This is the first big male we’ve seen and heもっと詳しく
Cleaning in Anchorage
2023年6月26日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Today we spent the whole day cleaning, drying and packing the camping gear ready to be sent back to New Zealand tomorrow.
Everything was scrubbed with cleaning fluid and no dirt or bugs could beもっと詳しく
Anchorage
2023年6月27日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
The suitcase delivery guy came at 9am to collect the bag to ship it back home. Once that was gone, we caught the bus into Anchorage to have breakfast at Snow City Cafe.
Unfortunately when we gotもっと詳しく
Anchorage to San Francisco
2023年6月28日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
After hardly any sleep, I got up at 2.30am and into the Uber at 3.15am for the ride to the airport.
That’s the end of the Alaska leg of the trip but on to California.
The plane took off on timeもっと詳しく
Golden Gate and Muir Woods
2023年6月29日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
After helping ourselves to plenty of free breakfast pastries 🥐 (we will do even better tomorrow) and coffee we got ready and went to Louis Diner for breakfast (second breakfast?).
We then walkedもっと詳しく
San Francisco
2023年6月30日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
We had breakfast in Loris diner and then walked through China Town and the Italian quarter towards Fisherman’s Wharf.
We went in the museum of mechanical things and played some of the games. Weもっと詳しく
San Francisco to Wawona
2023年7月1日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Up really early and onto the BART by 7.15am. We travelled through to Oakland international airport and then caught the rental car shuttle. The rental car centre has moved since we were last here andもっと詳しく
Sentinel Dome and Taft Point Hike
2023年7月2日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Up early, again, and left the house by 6.15am. As we pulled onto the main highway I couldn’t believe how much traffic there was. I’ve never seen so many cars at that time of day in Yosemite.
Weもっと詳しく
Taft Point part 3
2023年7月2日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Photos
Taft Point part 2
2023年7月2日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 22 °C
Photos
Yosemite Valley
2023年7月3日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Another early start to get a car park at Yosemite Lodge. Once parked we had a leisurely breakfast in the Basecamp Eatery before going on the lower falls trail to see Yosemite Falls. The huge amount ofもっと詳しく
Mariposa Grove
2023年7月4日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
A little later start as we only had a short drive to Mariposa Grove. We caught the shuttle bus 2 miles from the car park and then followed the Grizzly Giant trail through the large trees 🌲.
Afterもっと詳しく
Mirror Lake
2023年7月5日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Another 4am start to get a car park in the valley, this time at Curry Village. We went in Peets coffee and had our breakfast before setting off walking towards Mirror Lake.
Due to the excessiveもっと詳しく
Last day in Yosemite Valley…for now
2023年7月6日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Yet another 4am start and a car park at Yosemite Lodge. We had breakfast in the Basecamp Eatery (I forgot my bacon). We then set off on our self designed valley loop. Unfortunately we encounteredもっと詳しく
Yosemite to Morro Bay
2023年7月7日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
A later start than the last few days and then a 4.5 hour drive to Morro Bay. We stopped at a random petrol station along the way for Mexican snacks.
Once we had checked in to the Pleasant Inn weもっと詳しく
Morro Bay
2023年7月8日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
We set out north along Highway 1 at 9am. We stopped at Moonstone Beach for a look at the ocean before continuing to Hearst Castle. We decided to not go in Hearst Castle due to the tour timing systemもっと詳しく
Morro Bay to Monterey
2023年7月9日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
After breakfast we had a last walk around Morro Bay and saw some seals. Around 10.30am we set off driving to Monterey and arrived around 1pm. Unfortunately they couldn’t do an early check in orもっと詳しく























































































































































































































