Sequoia: Tall trees, mosquito mayhem and marshmallows by the fire

We drove on to Sequoia national park, where we set up camp in another bear hungry forest 

The scenery was incredible and made me feel like I’d just walked on to the set of Homeward Bound.  

Sequoia trees are the biggest in the world and make you feel like a busy ant scurrying around on the ground.

A few key learnings: 

Park Rangers look exactly like they did in Yogi Bear - modeling a khaki shirt and trouser combo and matching hat.  Female Park Rangers are quite scary looking. 

It appears Americans don’t go running in National Parks. As we were training for the Sydney City to Surf 14km run, we went on a few runs. Everybody looked at us like we had escaped from an asylum

Sometimes things aren’t always as enjoyable as you expect. We anticipated a walk in Kings Canyon would be ‘pleasant’.  

However, we encountered 2 deer, 2 snakes, Larry the lizard and his 50 cousins and about 100,000 mosquitoes.  I managed to spill very sticky Gatorade on my top, which didn’t help matters.  We practically ran the last 3 miles through the swarm of mosquitoes.

Filling mashmallows with peanut butter M&Ms and then toasting them on an open fire is an excellent way to recover from a traumatic experience however

Miniature Martin next to a very tall tree