California, Bass Lake Oct 17 - 26

Bass Lake Recreational Resort, California is located near the south end of Yosemite National Park. The park is located near the little town of Oakhurst which is a fair size town.  We drove up to the Yosemite Valley, but it was so dry none of the waterfalls were running.  I don't think I will go back up there at this time of the year.  We were here many years ago in the spring and it was much nicer.  We also met up with some of the Colorado people we meet At Klamath CA.

 Bass Lake, California

 View of the country side as we drove to Yosemite National Park

This is the famous mountain called El Capitan.  A lot of people have climbed up this rock wall.

The Yosemite River was nice, but not enough water to kayak.

Another view up the valley.

This little deer was laying under a tree along side the path to the visitor center.  It did not seem to be bothered by any of the people that walked by.

We stopped to eat our lunch at a park in the valley, these two crows were waiting for us to drop something so they could have a meal also.

Some of the rock walls along the valley.

The mountians were very pretty here.

The valley floor was so dry.  I don't think they had any rain for a long time.

Kay looking for some flowers.  Guess she did not find any.

She did fine this nice looking fern in its golden fall colors.

This tree was just behind our camper in the campground.

This is the road a few days after Kay and I were driving down when the truck stopped and refused to start. I knew it was the fuel filter, and I always carry a new one in the truck.  So in the rain I started to change it.  First off, it took a long time to get the old one off.  By this time, it was raining fairly good.  As I was laying on the ground under the truck the water coming down the hill was going right up my back.  After getting it off, I tried for two hours to get the new one on.  In the process, I broke the two wires that fit on the water sensor on the bottom of the filter.  Kay finally made me call Good Sam's Road service and had them come and get the truck and haul it back to Oakhurst.  While all this was going on, a local man named Jim had stopped to see if he could help.  After trying for a long time, he offered to take Kay and the dogs back to the camper for me.  What a sweet man.  He than came back to the truck and waited until the tow truck picked up my truck.  He then followed us to the garage where we dropped off the truck.  He then gave me a ride back to the camper.  He would not take anything for doing all this for us, so I gave him some of our home made blackberry jam.  We will never forget that man.

This is what is left of Bass Lake.  They are working on the dam so that is why the water is so low.

Our friends from Colorado.  John - Boss - Bunny

The four of us and our dogs.

Bunny

John, who does most of the cooking in their house made jalapeno poppers for supper along with the ribs pictured below.

Some of the best ribs I have ever eaten.  He can cook for me anytime.