Again, it was a magnificent day. We certainly can't complain about the weather. The trip took around 5 hours after a short break at a roadside family orchid (it was nice to see some fresh food).
I think we underestimated today and the sheer enormity of the National park. It would probably have been more enjoyable had we booked to stay overnight, but we didn't really realise that at the time. It's a long way to go to only get 3 hours in the park.
Once we got to the park we had a quick lunch and then caught a shuttle to the first attraction, El Capitan. We spent about 20 minutes there and then got on the next shuttle where we (unfortunately) got stuck in a traffic jam in the park so we didn't really have anymore time to visit other attractions. Luckily we did see some of the sights on our way into the park.
We had to meet back at the bus at 3:45 so we did make it back with maybe 15 minutes to spare.
Next time, we will definitely look into staying overnight there. There is so much to see and 3 hours doesn't really do it justice. I have to admit though, we did decide to give some of the waterfalls a miss because after seeing Niagara Falls, we decided we'd only be disappointed.
It was another 5 hrs back to our hotel, luckily we were the first drop-off so we were both pretty pleased with that. We did stop-off at Treasure Island on the way back to view San Francisco by night which was stunning, but unfortunately my camera let me down and the photos are awful. Oh well, it's in my mind!
