On the north side of the lake was a pumice desert. That was neat. Barely any trees and pumice all over. We stopped a bunch of places along the drive and then left the national park by early afternoon. We are now in Klamath Falls where we are staying for a few days to get some serious work done.
-Miranda
Joe picking up a big rock! (yes, it is pumice.. .)
Joe and I in front of Crater Lake.
Joe looking at the lake. I think he got a panoramic with his camera... If it turned out I'll put it on the site.
Wizard Island which is in Crater Lake.
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Well, we drove quite a bit yesterday and made it to Diamond Lake, which is just north of Crater Lake. We stayed at an RV park because they have internet. Our plan is to head into the park today and see what it's like and whether we have internet there. Then decide if we're just going to spend the day there or a couple days.
This is quite a pretty area. The drive was very nice. We are now at an elevation of about 5000ft and still have to go up to 7000ft to get to Crater Lake.
-Miranda
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Well, Joe decided it would be best to get the oil change and check out our issue when we go uphill (sounds like it's going to die, so he has to put it into second and go about 25mph). So, while Joe found an auto guy that looked at the engine I worked on fixing some problems in the game.
Turns out, our going uphill problem was a plugged up fuel filter, so we got that changed. Hopefully that will help us out. We'll find out soon being we're heading back into the mountains today.
Then, Joe decided we should really get the oil changed, so we went to another place not too far away and got the oil changed, our fluids all topped off and even all the zurts greased up. Both of these stops ended up being relatively cheap and the guys were really nice.
Then we stopped and filled up on propane and there was a kayak shop less than a block away. We've been needing kayak paddles for our inflatable boat. All we've had is one canoe paddle. They had some decent, not too expensive, kayak paddles. So we bought two of those.
Yay for a productive morning.
We are now on our way to Crater Lake National Park.
-Miranda
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Woohoo.. We're at Beachside State Park Campground, Near Waldport OR now.. Without Super Internet, But it fulfills all of our other requirements for perfection:
Near the Beach (2 city block walk to the water)
Surfable (Nice sandy beach)
Hot Showers (Really really nice after getting all sandy/salty in the cold surf)
Not too pricey (Only $17 for camping, or $21 for elec and water!)
Last night we went on up a great little paved national forest road, found several boondock campsites. But, We wont be using them ;)
We are set to be happy-camping until it gets chillyy
Was 43 degrees when we woke up. . .. oh boy ;) -Joe
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So, Joe decided, looking at Google Earth, that there really wasn't going to be much for beaches anymore. At least not for a looong time. So, we went back north. Yes, we back-tracked about 100 miles. So we're now south of Waldport by maybe 5-10 miles. We're at a national forest campground right now parked basically right next to the beach! We have a view of the beach! So nice. We'll be moving to a state campground in a day or two where there will be showers. So, even though we went back north, we'll get to surf for a couple weeks, then we'll head for southern OR and towards California's redwoods.
Here are some random pics.
-Miranda
A lot of the trees have moss covered branches. Fuzzy trees!
A not so great photo of the sand dunes. We were driving around on this dune and 4 others.
A picture of me in the dune buggy on the beach. We'll get a video or two up hopefully soon...
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