Thursday, June 18

Day 12, part 2

We left Mammoth Lake this morning. We skipped the advertised hot springs stop in favor of a stop at the Mammoth Lake Visitor Center. Meh. But they did give away free granola bars. The kids were suspicious of a pee break 10 minutes after boarding the bus, but the chaperones wanted to stop. Next we stopped at Mono Lake. That was a cool stop, and I'll recommend it for next year. I just Googled it, and learned it's close to Yosemite. Neat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_Lake We stopped to speak to the park ranger about fees. ($40.00 for the bus, and $3.00pp) He let us in for free since we're an educational tour. We had a fee waiver letter for Valley of Fire, but no where else. I gave him a tour t-shirt for being so nice. Go read about Mono Lake, it's very interesting. The only creature living in the lake-brine shrimp. SEA MONKEYS!! One of my creatures stripped down, and went swimming, then yelped the water was stinging him. Yep, that's all the salt and alkalinity. Something they'd know about if they read the info on the signs along the boardwalk. I took photos of the signs for them.

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