Leaving Yosemite travelling south to Exeter via sequoia np

NB (I have 5 days of Yosemite park to upload but having problems…watch this space 🤣😉)

It was an early start and sunrise shining golden over the mountains. Feeling sad to leave but more adventures to explore 

It was misty in the valley bottoms and just above freezing down there.

We left the south entrance and the hairpin bends and steep drops gradually left behind. We were on the 41 to Fresno and soon the countryside changed to flat yellow fields and autumn trees.

Little towns and palm trees started appearing. We passed through gold mining areas now we were on a long straight road at last not a fit tree in sight 

At Fresno we joined the 180 and headed east to sequoia park. We passed acres of nut trees and vines and oh dear smoky haze 

Again we had to drive up and steep drops hair pin bends with no crash barriers 

This n p has many pull outs for nervous drivers to use so as not to hold others up

Our first sequoia was just through north entrance

There were view points and trails to stop at 

We saw a fire engine did he know something we didn’t know  

We turned for the parking for the general Sherman tree. Now we were in a huge queue of cars all with the same idea.

General Sherman is the world’s largest living tree the giant sequoia is 275 feet tall at the base the circumference is 102.6 feet … taller than a 27 story building…

It took half an hour to reach the car park and ten a half mile walk 68*f in the sunshine

The road through the sequoia park now became very very scary 

We descended from 7000 feet to about 3000 feet on hairpin bends . The high sierras to the foothills. I’m still shaking never again! We had planned to go there tomorrow but not now. 

Now the sequoias had finished and it was all deciduous trees in autumn colours very pretty if we hadn’t been so scared 😱 

3 rivers was a beautiful area and a river with a reservoir. Lots of holiday homes.

We saw cacti and palm trees and many acres of little nut trees. Everywhere was so flat near our hotel at Exeter

We ended the day at a small French restaurant

Le Monet the meal was superb xxx

Missing you all xx