Yosemite (Day 4)
After a restful night we slowly made our way back out of
the valley. We stopped by El Capitan, Olmsted
Point, Tenya Lake and back to the gold mine. The “gold” was harder to find today, that was
disappointing.
We stopped by Mono Lake to check
out the Tufa thingamabobs (monolake.org).
It is one of North Americans oldest lakes with some estimations putting
it 1-3 million years old. It has 3x the
salinity of an ocean. We went ‘swimming’
in it and when I saw swim I mean float.
Due to the salinity we were able to bob around like a cork. BUT it tasted horrible. You know when you make a salt water gargle
for a sore throat well all MORE salt, and a touch of Borax and Tide. Taste and enjoy. It was quite odd floating in the water as if I
had pool noodles under my arms and ankles.
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