Here's a picture taken from the deck at the Buckeye Tree Lodge. The Kaweah River is in the background. Bears frequently poke around here. My neighbors saw one at 630 AM one morning when I was there...he was just across the river from us.










This is the Kaweah River at the Lodge from a fine basking rock. Check out the rocks...some are at least as large as a van! Where do they come from? Well, there are similar rocks on the hillside above the river...some probably roll down from time to time. But others most likely are washed downstream from the Sierra during floods. The river is much larger and runs much faster with spring snowmelt and during warm winter rainstorms falling on top of snow. I reckon it's powerful at such times!