On Friday morning I was chatting about doing some caching with my friends Colin and Janet, and the possibility of doing it in conjunction with some boating on one of the many nearby lakes, when Janet suggested we leave on Friday evening and spend the night camping at the lake. Well, we did!
We arrived quite on late on Friday night and had to do some night boating as the campsite was a "boat in". Thanks to Colin's boating skills we found a camp site and set up OK in the dark. We woke up the next morning to an absolutely amazing view down the lake (a very long, thin lake - check out 39°14'21.57"N 121°15'50.46"W on Google Earth).
After a delicious breakfast of scrambled egg and bacon burritos (what is about eating in the fresh air that makes everything taste so good?!), we enjoyed some boating on the lake, including tubing. We had a three-man tube that is towed behind the boat - great fun!
We then heading up the lake to an inlet where we had some lunch, before walking up the river (about 1.5km) to an amazing, old covered bridge... and a geocache! After spending some time at the bridge and chatting to two lovely ladies at the visitor's centre, we hiked back along the river bank to another geocache! Unfortunately, we then needed to leave, so it was back to the boat, to get down the lake (with a little last tubing for the kids), get the boat out of the water onto the trailer and drive back home.
This morning we went to one of the three Sunday services at Bayside church (my first Sunday service there - in the past I had only been to their Saturday evening services). They had a very good visiting preacher from another church in Sacramento. The afternoon has been a gloriously lazy time of sitting around the pool reading and swimming. I could get seriously used to being on permanent holiday in the Californian summer!!
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