So yesterday on May 29th, a Sunday, my dad decides it would be bundles of fun to go fishing with gray clouds littering the sky and a forecast of rain. This just spells trouble. Since I don't have a whole lot of time left with my family until I set off for college and a job I decide to tag along despite the gloomy forecast.
It turns out that since there was so much snow in the mountains, we couldn't take the short drive up to Loon Lake which is located at the top of the snowy mountains. We have to take a detour through Placerville. After a nice (it seemed like an hour long) drive we arrive at Loon only to find it completely frozen over. COMPLETELY!
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| The frozen lake water at Loon Lake. |
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| Another pic of the frozen wasteland. That's a lot of snow. |
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| You get my point. |
Anyways, we stayed here for about five minutes which is how long it took to freeze my butt off. Next we went lake hopping trying to scope out good FREE campsites. Checked out Yellowjacket and some Strawberry Fields lake. We eventually settled down at Icehouse, which could hardly be called a lake with the state it was in. It looked like a puddle that some kid jumped around in until there was nothing left. The tide was so low you could see dead tree stumps all over the place. Despite the sorry state the lake was in, the decreased water volume meant there was more fish in a smaller area. The fishing was Off the Hook!!
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| The lake shore. |
We caught about 12 fish in about an hour or two. Despite the great fishing we hightailed it out of there cause it was COLD!! I was wearing two heavy jackets, a beanie over my face, and a pair of sweats and I still froze my face off.
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| Yeah, that's me being cold. All that dirt in the background should be under water right now. That's how low the tide was. |
Anyways, to kill time since I wasn't in the mood to fish my sister and I built a little shelter because we watch too many survival shows. It turned out to be pretty cool. All we used was a tree stump, some tree branches dead/alive and pine needles. There were a lot of dead tree branches lying around because of the recent storm anyways.
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| The little hut/shack/shelter that my sister (currently inside) and I built. |
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| That's me inside the tiny little shelter. It was very cramped. |
After successfully building that we just stood around until my dad managed to catch the first fish. After that it was one right after the other. Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of the 12 fish we caught because that was on another camera that I am too lazy to go a fetch right now. On with the story.....
We caught the fish, "processed" them, and then planned to go back home. However, my dad being the adventurous/nosy person that he is decided we should take a look at some river that flowed into the lake. It was pretty, to say the least.
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| The river that flows into Icehouse Lake. |
After all of that we head home only to see a *gasp* Double Rainbow. First one in my entire life. It was pretty cool. I've learned about rainbows maybe five times and I still don't remember how they work. Something about light and water. Whatever, it was pretty B-E-A-utiful.
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| The rainbow, the double rainbow is really hard to see in this picture. |
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| Another rainbow shot. |
Then I went home and fell asleep.
The end.
