How do you get there? Drive up the 5 past the Grapevine, stay on 5 past the split with 99, drive until you smell your first factory farm, turn off just past the refinery...
...and there's yer lake. Yup, that's the one, right by them pumpjacks.
This is where people from Kern County--apparently all of Southern, CA-- come to git their boat on.We set up our tent amongst the titanic RVs and trailers for which the campground was built.
What a contrast with the the previous weekend!Actually, we had a great time. It was super hot, so we wore few clothes. The nearest RVs belonged to our old and new friends from Ventura. We played in the water and even got out in the boat a bit. Levi still got up nice and early...
...but that allowed me to experience the day and the lake at its nicest:
We took the scenic route home, which was pretty cool. I've wanted to drive that stretch of Highway 33 since we moved to Ventura. We drove near the Tule Elk Reserve, through Taft and Maricopa, near the Carizzo Plain National Monument-- where the San Andreas fault makes the ground look like zipper, stopped for some pistachios in Ventucopa, crossed the pass near Reyes Peak, dropped down through the big walls of the (upper) Sespe Gorge, then emerged into the familiar territory for the descent from Rose Valley.
