We climbed to the top of the 5th highest waterfall in the world (according to the guide book though there seems to be some dispute; wikipedia places it 18th and the world waterfall database ranks it 20th), our legs are still aching.

This is what it looks like about half way up:

This is a view from the bottom, you can’t see the lower part of the falls:

We drove about 2000 miles.

As you can see we splatted a lot of insects.

I took LOTS of photos of rocks and plants:

I really need not to eat any more beef for quite a while, vegetarian options in California being surprisingly hard to come by (or at least hard to choose when they’re more expensive than cheese burgers which are the one thing American cuisine gets consistently right. Having said that we did have some really nice food, including the über-Californian sea food tacos, I’m definitely going to try to recreate those).

We also saw amongst other wild animals; desert tortoises, coyotes, and sea lions:

Also a black bear! Which I failed to photograph.

And a some not so wild but very photogenic jellyfish.