Monday morning we drove down into Kings Canyon. We weren’t sure what to expect so we were excite to see how beautiful it is. Incredible scenery around every turn but much of it is hard to capture in a photo. You had to be there!
Also, the weather was perfect! Blue skies and almost 70 degrees. All the wild flowers are blooming an all of the waterfalls were rushing.
Most all of these photos are like a convex mirror. Objects are larger than they appear (except for Connie and me).
I think I could spend days there and keep finding great stuff to photography. You know what, make that weeks. This really is a great time to see it and there is hardly anybody there.
This was a rock wall just above the road. Pretty crazy, huh.
It’s amazing where wild flowers will grow, isn’t it?
In the afternoon we drove into Sequoia National park to see the largest tree in the world. It was about 30 miles one way and pretty but nothing like Kings Canyon. Well here he is, General Sherman.
General Sherman is not the tallest, not the oldest and doesn’t have the larges trunk but for sheer volume it is the largest tree in the world.
- 52,500 cubic feet in volume.
- 1,385 tons.
- Diameter at base = 36.5’
- Diameter at 180’ up = 13.7’
- Diameter of largest branch = 6.8’
- Height = 275’
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