Again in Tahoe

For my friend Jerilyn's visit we decided take a trip to Lake Tahoe. The weather was still warm but the water was insanely cold, as usual. Still, we braved up and swam as much as we could, knowing that the summer was ending and this was probably our last chance to do it for at least a year. This trip was near two months ago, and by now Tahoe has already gotten snowed on a couple of times. We will try to make a trip there this winter, but hopefully I will post something between now and then, or else this will become a blog about Tahoe.

Lake Tahoe!

We finally took a trip to lake Tahoe! it was short, but a lot of fun. We drove there friday night and camped in the woods. The next day we kayaked around Emerald Bay, drove around the area a bit, and back to Berkeley. Hopefully we will be able to do a longer trip before it gets colder!

Big Sur

About a month ago we went on a day trip to Big Sur. We drove down the famous highway 1 and just stopped on the side of the road whenever things got pretty. Now that school is over we can enjoy our weekends, and we have been! Northern California has been beautiful so far. We are the luckiest to be able to live here, so we will try to soak in as much of it as we can.

The whole day was very foggy and quite chilly, but it was still enjoyable. The landscape looked like it came out of a movie. 

The water was incredibly blue, and there was a waterfall right on the beach. Unfortunately people weren't allowed in this beach, so we could only look from afar. 

We have gone on more trips since, but I haven't been bringing my camera. Both my camera and lenses are almost 5 years old, and they've been rattling like maracas and refusing to focus on things. Hopefully I will be able to replace them within the next couple of years. For now I will have to keep trying to make them work! 

Muir Overlook & Beach

While we were at Muir Woods for our birthdays, we decided to stop by Muir Beach. It happened to be only 5 minutes away, and we were told about the beautiful overlook. 

The overlook was gorgeous. It is off the shore a bit, so you really have an amazing view from it. When we got there the light was beautiful, and it was about the time when the fog comes in, so everything was slowly being covered by white.

Even though it was technically still the summer, it was freezing there. When I moved to California I thought that it was warm and sunny all over the state. Silly me. The Bay Area is only warm for a couple of days a year, and it is never warm enough for a swim.

I braved up and felt the water a bit, and it was FREEZING! At first it hurt a lot, but once my feet lost sensitivity it became fun. Even though the water is too cold to be swimmable, the west coast beaches do have one thing that I love... SUNSETS! I could never wake up early enough to see the sunrise when going to beaches on the east, but the sunset here has been hard to miss! I love it!