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Annual Springtime Visit to the Soul-Soaring Waterfalls of Yosemite - May, 2009

  From the top of the valley by Sentinel Dome

 

         View from Washburn Point with Half Dome and Nevada Falls          View from Glacier Point toward Yosemite Falls   

                                                                                                                                                                                               

    Click VIEW to see Washburn Point from the top of Nevada Falls                               

Where does all the water go after it leaves the waterfalls?  We found it down the river.

                 

The wide-open mouth surrounded by a moustache??  I am screaming in exuberance, not in terror.  REALLY.

South American Adventure: 

 

Machu picchu

 

Galapagos

 

Amazonian Jungle

September, 2008

Following are a few fotos from sites and sights I saw during my September in South America. 

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Machu picchu

 

   Tourist admires the ruins             Andean mourns the loss       Framed view of          Guardhouse guards    Strange sight just before the sun set

  of a once great civilization          of a once great civilization     Huayna Picchu          from high on the hill             and the full moon rose.

 

   Notch on the left of the ridge            View from Intipunku                    View from east of Machu Picchu         Full moon rises over

   is Intipunku, Gate of the Sun            east of Machu Picchu                                                                              the ridge of Intipunku

 

   Classic view of Machu Picchu

   Uña Picchu small hill on left

    Huayna Picchu on the right

                        Huayna Picchu, the Young Mountain       View from the top of                       

                             with Inca ruins near the top                     Huayna Picchu

Galapagos

 

 Welcome committee by my yacht        Frigate male looking for lady birds       Frigate birds looking piratical                Sally Lightfoot crab

      Nice pair of boobies                  Boobie mating dance       Fight for good nesting spot              Mama feeding big baby

      Blue footed, indeed                                                       Nazca boobie fights blue-footed

 

        Flamingos???               Flamingos by a volcano??      Penguin on the equator??             UGLY albatross baby?

      

   Tourist with marine iguanas

    Four buddies hanging out      Catching rays                Iguanas can SWIM?            Pile up                      Here's looking at you, kid 

 

                   

     Tourist with land iguana          Land iguana on the prowl                          Land iguana did not make it    Marine iguana did not make it

                                                                                                                  look at skeleton on top of cactus      look at hawk's mouth

            Slow friends             Turtle fight at Matrix speed     Jungle Tim with tortoise       Another island sunset

Amazonian Jungle

 

My hut is on far right side                View from my hut                  Bats on pole                Frog by my hut at night

    See the lizard on the tree                   See him now?                         See the 18' caiman?                    Tiger heron

 

Thousands of parrots            Parrots at clay lick          Great potoo mom and kid          Coatamundi                  Afternoon lagoon

 

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Desolation Wilderness

August, 2008

A few days of high altitude/attitude camping in July to get ready for Machu Picchu

Elevation - 8,600 feet

  Located a few miles west of Lake Tahoe, Desolation's granite moonscape is rugged

but the trees tenaciously find a way to break through.      

Lily pads dance on the water

of the glacier carved lakes.

A campsite by Lake of the Woods is a tranquil place to return after hiking each day in the stunning beauty of the high altitude wilderness.

 

Back to Yosemite for Spring

< < In early May, 2008, Yosemite Falls fell spectacularly as the sun melted the snow.

<< And in the higher mountains beside Liberty Cap,

<< Nevada Falls' descending deluge delighted.

 

On the hike to the top, resting in the mist beside Nevada Falls, tired but smiling.>>

 

Top of Nevada Falls, looking toward Washburn Point (top middle)

 

December, 2007

A visit to Hawai'i, the Big Island

Daytime temps in the mid-80s and water temps in the mid-70s, diving with the turtles and sleeping on the beach was a nice way to prepare for the holidaze. 

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TJ and Kiara Are Married

January 21, 2007

On a clear winter day beside Lake Tahoe, my little boy, Tim J Emert, married the beautiful Kiara Hay.

 

A clown with the cute couple. ►►

◄◄I now pronounce you . . .

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Click on "TJ & Robbie" (above) to see TJ's newly colored TATTOO

Hiking in the High Sierra

August, 2006

Me 'n my boys started at Tuolumne Meadows high above the Yosemite Valley and hiked along the river toward Hetch Hetchy, camping beside the wondrous waterfalls each night.

 

In Yosemite Valley before starting our journey. ►►

◄◄Backpackers resting by Waterwheel Falls

 

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