Yosemite Con't

A few more photos from our Yosemite vacation.

Sammy Squirrel! The ground squirrels were so used to humans in the campground that they'd come up right underneath your legs while sitting around the campfire. I decided to take some close up shots and take advantage of the situation.

Morning view of Half Dome from Glacier Point. Cindy and I became engaged several yards from this venue. This year while visiting our engagement spot, we were greeted with a growling cougar. Below is an audio clip of a cougar from National Geographic. The low rumble portion at 00:00:12 is EXACTLY what we heard while sitting at our spot.

A picture of the star-filled Yosemite sky with tree tops in the bottom left-hand corner. Due to the darkness, we had to keep the shutter open for three minutes to capture just a portion of the light that was visible to the human eye; within these three minutes, the rotation of the Earth caused the stars to appear blurry, despite the camera being entirely in focus. Notice how the stars appear to be “moving” in the same direction?

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Yosemite

Here are pictures from our most recent Yosemite camping trip. We stayed in Lower Pines camping grounds where we got to meet and greet the ground squirrels of Yosemite. Hiking up to the top of Nevada Falls, lounging around and the Ahwahnee hotel, and encounting a cougar at Glacier Point were among the many events of our trip.

A view from Glacier Point

The precipice of Nevada Falls, roughly a 60-story, near-vertical drop.

A view of the Ahwahnee Hotel

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Sam Ngatuvai

Arnold, Celi & Sam Ngatuvai (Rios) came over for dinner one night during their visit to southern California. Sam just recently turned one and is walking everywhere. The Ngatuvai family currently lives in Utah with Arnold completing his degree in Accounting.

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Cape Cod

Cindy and I spent our first-year anniversary on Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and Boston. This was the first time I got to use our new Gisteq Phototrackr Lite that plots the GPS points of each photo so be sure to check out the Album Map!

A double rainbow over the bus station in Hyannis

A view of the Pilgrim Monument from below. Built in 1910, the structure was intended to commemorate the Pilgrim's landing in Provinetown, as well as their signing of the Mayflower Compact, a document that helped to set forth parameters for the Constitution.

That's a long way up the monument!

One long jetty... it took about a half an hour to walk across.

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