The descent lay through of pine and , beds of beautiful flowers, , mountain , tiny lakes, springs of ice cold water, and acres and acres of azaleas.  
In the center of a green lay a big brown bowlder surrounded by flowers. Just under the side of this bowlder was a spring of ice cold water.
 
Just as the sun was sliding down the western horizon beyond the snow-capped peaks we arrived again in Wawona valley, where the evening was spent in telling stories and relating adventures.
 
“When in London recently,” said our lawyer friend, “Chauncey Depew told this story:
 
“At a hotel where he was dining the waitress said to a young man, ‘We have blackberry pie, peach pie, plum pie, strawberry pie and custard pie.’
 
 
“‘Bring me some plum pie and some peach pie, yes, and I’ll take some blackberry pie.’ As the waitress turned to fill the order the young man called her back, ‘You may bring me some strawberry pie, too.’
 
“‘What’s the matter with the custard pie?’ inquired she.
 
“The next morning Mr. Depew met a young Englishman on the street, who complimented him on his speech, saying that he really liked it very, very much, you know, but he would like to ask him one question, ‘What was the matter with the custard pie?’”
 
When the laugh had a young lady in a pink shirt waist leaned forward in her chair, and looking earnestly at the lawyer, softly inquired, “Well, what was?”
 
In the laugh which followed, the Englishman’s stupidity was lost sight of in at that of the American girl.
 
“Excuse me,” said a well dressed lady to me one morning at the hotel in Wawona, “I am a little on my geography, but what I want to know is this—if I go to Denver will I be in Colorado?”
 
After a week’s fishing, dreaming and resting in this beautiful valley, we returned to the coast.
 
 
All up and down the Pacific coast as well as the islands of the sea are wonderful floating gardens. These gardens are composed of kelp, which attached to the bottom and to the rocks, grows from fifty to one hundred feet long, throwing out broad leaves and balloon-like air bulbs which support them. A perfect forest of broad green leaves rise upward, presenting a sharp contrast to the blue water in which they grow. turning with every movement of the water they are among the most strikingly beautiful objects of salt sea. When near the shore these huge plants assume an upright position and become floating gardens in very truth, through which with much difficulty.
 
The entrance to the bay at Santa Barbara is a perfect of floating sea-weed. The leaves are covered with patches of color, representing animals, or plants, greens, reds, purples and yellows, a perfect maze of color.
 
Delicate sea looking exactly like their namesakes on land. The slightest noise causes them to close up, withdrawing their , and presently blooming out again.
 
Here are tiny plant-like animals growing in[213] shrub-like forms. Wonderful jellyfish, too, fill the ocean at night with a phosphorescent light.
 
In place of birds and insects in a sea garden we find shell animals, and fishes clinging to the leaves. Along comes a big throwing out his eight sucker-lined arms in search of food. Disturbed, he throws out an inky fluid, and while you are searching the black hole for him, he slips away. Yonder comes a nautilus holding his shell high over his head, crawling lazily along. Black-hued echini, with pins and needles which, waving to and fro,............