Ah of all the days it had to rain all day on the day we planned to go to Yosemite National Park. Nonetheless we pressed on because we had no choice. After a 3.5 hour drive we reached the park. It was interesting because we passed by a section of forest which was razed by fire not too long ago. It was really wet and we saw the landscape change from brown (tree bark) to green (moss on tree bark) to red and black (burnt open land).
Once we reached the park, we started taking pictures and I used a Banana republic plastic bag as a rain cover for my camera. It was a nice sight. It was really heavenly with the light rain and the mist coming from the top of the mountain. I thought i was in a chinese heavenly period scene. All i need to add to the scene was a pagoda and a monkey god and it would have been perfect. I felt that the scene was more special than a normal sunny day scene even though we had to put up with the wet weather, because this scene was even more special than the everyday dry weather sights that most people might see.
We visited two waterfalls, including the lower yosemite falls which was releasing alot of mist into the air, a meadow, and the mirror lake. It was really pretty.
At the end of the day, we tried to visit the Sequoia grove but unfortunately the track was still in winter conditions with slushy ice and it was near impassable. So I had to give it a miss. My nature-loving self would have to come back again to see the wonderful magnificent and grand old trees in future.
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