Mountains are calling, rain is falling .

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Things that I remember: Rain, fire, fire, sun, coffee in between, fire, hike and delicious food.

Manning Park it’s huuuge and birds by the lake are so used to humans they land on your palm with no fear! Remember San Diego Zoo had lots of birds too but they were not paying attention to people. Question here is - did I get the bird to land in my palm?? I think the answer is obvious ;) It was another successful camping trip. The only thing that I didn’t realize before going there that the actual season starts in June, otherwise lot’s of trails are closed and you have no access.

But! We did few smaller hikes around the lake, Youn took a little swim in a lake but for me it was too cold so I just recorded him ;P Scrolled down and enjoy beautiful views of Manning Park!

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For the days you feel at your best .

Before we head on to our next nature vacation I wanna share images from few years. Youn and I went to our first camping trip to States. I think this is where we realized how much we want to do this together and the days we spend there we still think of as our best camping days!

We arrived late late at night and all spots were taken so we end up sleeping in a car and this image above was what we saw when we woke up. And a miracle happened!!! Someone left early early and we took their spot. (Back then this campsite didn’t have reservation available).

We slowly set up a tent that we borrowed. It was a huuuuge one where you can just walk in ;) and made one of our favorite breakfast! It was corn tortilla+egg+bacon+avocado+pickles(!!!)+tomatoes. You get it, all the good stuff ;)

Even now when I look at these photos it looks soooo delicious ;)

The reason why we went camping to States was based on fire ban in Canada. We both can’t imagine camping without having a fire.

We did some hiking around and this haze came all the from Canada!

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Watch this short video: Diablo lake

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Like a little happy chipmunk ;)

Getting ready my fiiiirstt marshmallow ;)

Here is a beautiful panoramic shot from a look out to Diablo Lake.

Beautiful beautiful area and river water is from glacier so it stays freezingly cold even on hot summer days! I will always go back there to cherish the first time ;)

Al Habrich trail .

We went to this trail too early! It was still snow on our path so we just end up having a picnic on the highest rock and observing beautiness around us :)

The trail itself is quite easy, there were only two parts were we had to use ropes but it’s ok! Easy peasy and you continue your trip.

Red panda and the others .

What to do when you have few hours in the morning? Stay in bed? Maybe :) But we decided to visit Zoo in San Diego. We spent there almost 4hours and still didn’t see everything. I would say we saw majority of animals but some of them were already taking their midday naps like this cute red panda :)

During our trip in San Diego I kept watching one show on Netflix called ‘Our Planet’. So after visiting the Zoo I felt like all the animals I saw in the show lives in California.

I was lucky because I had my 70-200mm so I could get really nice close-up shots of animals.

I do love taking photos of cactuses, especially in California. It seems that there no limits for different looks and heights they can grow. I’ve seen few that looks as old as an apple tree in my grandma’s backyard!

Meet Dwarf Mongoose and Rock Hyrax. No need to introduce Meerkat :)

Did you know that elephants walk on their toes? And they can live up to 70 y.o.! Quite impressive :)