Yosemite in winter – What to do with kids

Yosemite in winter is a season of poignant beauty.  The crowds that flock to the the National Park in summer are absent allowing families to enjoy a true wilderness experience in relative solitude.  Our own trip to Yosemite last winter co-incided with the largest snow storm in Californian recent history.  Trees sagged under the weight…

Visiting the Redwood forest in Warburton Victoria

An hour and a half from Melbourne, just past the alpine hamlet of Warburton is a the East Warburton Redwood Forest.   The fifteen hundred or so eighty year old the trees (a few fifty metres tall) if not quite as impressive as their cousins in California are impressive enough.  The cool shade of this…