Sightseeing Sequoias

It's absolutely criminal to be in Fresno for this long without making a trip into Yosemite National Park. It's practically my backyard, but it's only now that I'm taking my first proper look around. It was worth the wait. There are a lot of interesting things to see there.

Like big trees.

Really, really big trees.

I'm reliably informed that these are comparatively small examples of the Sequoia redwoods. The big brothers of these ones have been hanging out in Sequoia National Park for thousands of years.

No wonder they get tired and need to have a good lie down.

Dad, Patricia and I went with Dylan, a business associate from Western Australia, to explore (one tiny corner of) the park.

Unfortunately it looks like the graffiti artists from the Grand Canyon beat us here.

The trees are even more impressive when they're standing upright.

They're fenced off for their own safety. The trees have extraordinarily shallow root systems considering their height and the pressure of stampeding tree huggers might shorten their lives, and those of any tree huggers in the vicinity when they fall.