Moon over Bridalveil falls bw
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ambitious_wenchWell, I'm so close I can taste it. Reynardo, get your son over to the computer to see this.
Hi, Adam! I thought I'd share this picture with you. This is a picture of Bridalveil falls in Yosemite, CA. It's on the other coast, the one on the Pacific ocean. Well, sorta. It's inland a ways, in the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
The reason I'm showing this picture to you is because it's the perfect example of a "hanging valley".
At the top of the falls, you will notice that the mountains on both sides slope upwards. You might thing that the river and falls carved it, wouldn't you?
Sorta right. You see, Yosemite valley was originally carved by a glacier. that's where the photographer was standing when he took this pic.
Where the waterfall goes down--the face of the rock wall--that was carved by a huge glacier. There was a smaller glacier up at the top of the falls, a tributary glacier. It didn't carve as deeply as the one that made the main valley. It just sorta floated on top of the rocks, in a way.
As a result, you have a valley that ends abruptly when it reached the main glacier. That's called a "hanging valley". Do you have any hanging valleys in Australia? Sometimes they are formed by water instead of fields of ice.
I thought you might enjoy learning something about skin of the planet we both share.
Are you still collecting US quarter-dollars (quarters for short)? I hope so, because I'm going to be sending you a commemorative set of them.
I'm goig to be working in the valley for the summer, so expect lots of pictures. I may even see some black bears! We have to be careful because the part is full of them, and every year visitors' cars are broken into because the bears have learned that humans mean food. They have even learned to recognise candy wrappers, and if they see them in cars, they will pry open the doors to get at them.
I'll be living in a tent cabin; It's a wooden frame, with a canvas tent over it. One of the rules is that we can't have any food in our cabins, because of the bears. Are there bears in Australia? Other than drop bears, I mean. Koalas aren't really bears, if I remember. Aren't they marsupials? Doesn't that make them distant relatives of kangaroos and wallabys? I could be way wrong.
There will be coyote (sorta like dingos), and deer--not very much like kangaroos, I'm afraid. Other than their faces are similar, I suppose. There may even be wolves. Eep!
One of the problems in the park is that visitors often fed the animals. They like to think that wild animls are harmless. I saw a picture of a family offering food to a coyote once, a little girl holding it out in her hand, and the coyote was sniffing at it. That was scarey. Coyotes are wild dogs, and as such they can attack unpredictably.
They can also carry rabies. Is rabies a problem in Australia? I know that Hawaii has very strict rules about bringing any domestic animals onto the islands, and so they don't have any rabies.
Well, enough already. Watch my journal for more once I get out there.
Love,
Edie
Hi, Adam! I thought I'd share this picture with you. This is a picture of Bridalveil falls in Yosemite, CA. It's on the other coast, the one on the Pacific ocean. Well, sorta. It's inland a ways, in the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
The reason I'm showing this picture to you is because it's the perfect example of a "hanging valley".
At the top of the falls, you will notice that the mountains on both sides slope upwards. You might thing that the river and falls carved it, wouldn't you?
Sorta right. You see, Yosemite valley was originally carved by a glacier. that's where the photographer was standing when he took this pic.
Where the waterfall goes down--the face of the rock wall--that was carved by a huge glacier. There was a smaller glacier up at the top of the falls, a tributary glacier. It didn't carve as deeply as the one that made the main valley. It just sorta floated on top of the rocks, in a way.
As a result, you have a valley that ends abruptly when it reached the main glacier. That's called a "hanging valley". Do you have any hanging valleys in Australia? Sometimes they are formed by water instead of fields of ice.
I thought you might enjoy learning something about skin of the planet we both share.
Are you still collecting US quarter-dollars (quarters for short)? I hope so, because I'm going to be sending you a commemorative set of them.
I'm goig to be working in the valley for the summer, so expect lots of pictures. I may even see some black bears! We have to be careful because the part is full of them, and every year visitors' cars are broken into because the bears have learned that humans mean food. They have even learned to recognise candy wrappers, and if they see them in cars, they will pry open the doors to get at them.
I'll be living in a tent cabin; It's a wooden frame, with a canvas tent over it. One of the rules is that we can't have any food in our cabins, because of the bears. Are there bears in Australia? Other than drop bears, I mean. Koalas aren't really bears, if I remember. Aren't they marsupials? Doesn't that make them distant relatives of kangaroos and wallabys? I could be way wrong.
There will be coyote (sorta like dingos), and deer--not very much like kangaroos, I'm afraid. Other than their faces are similar, I suppose. There may even be wolves. Eep!
One of the problems in the park is that visitors often fed the animals. They like to think that wild animls are harmless. I saw a picture of a family offering food to a coyote once, a little girl holding it out in her hand, and the coyote was sniffing at it. That was scarey. Coyotes are wild dogs, and as such they can attack unpredictably.
They can also carry rabies. Is rabies a problem in Australia? I know that Hawaii has very strict rules about bringing any domestic animals onto the islands, and so they don't have any rabies.
Well, enough already. Watch my journal for more once I get out there.
Love,
Edie
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Date: 2005-05-04 03:09 pm (UTC)"The old man in the mountain", "1778", "Be free or die".
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Date: 2005-05-05 02:28 am (UTC)I know you will have a wonderful time. If I was single I think I really would try to go and share a cabin with you up there. But as it is, I'd be missing my honey before the first day was over. :)