This is one of our favorite places to stay, our site looks on to the Lake and although we don't pay for "waterfront" we are pretty darn close. Our friends, Ron, Alison and their baby Oliver camp a few sites away on the waterfront so we are always able to have a direct view from their campsite. They arrived a day later than we did and this enabled us to spend almost 2 weeks with one another, enjoying meals and outings. Alison is super knowledgeable about birds and flowers so we learn something every day from tapping her brain. Ron is the go-to guy for car knowledge and also follows IRV2 closely so we can still be up to date on issues without having to glean the information ourselves off the website. We love their 3-legged baby Oliver and other than Gracie (Tommy & Sheila's little baby) Oliver is the only animal to come inside the coach with our two cats. They were fine together and when the cats were getting annoyed they just got up and went into the bedroom.
Here is our view from our site.
There are several choices for putting in boats with some new ramps constructed recently with very large parking lots. Lucky for us Ron & Alison have a beautiful pontoon boat and invited us out a few times. Les & Ron worked together to get it ready and unloaded while Alison & I made some lunch and snacks so they didn't faint! Ron expertly maneuvered the boat under the London Bridge and down the River so we could watch a few knuckleheads (spring breakers!) jump off a large tall (maybe 40-50 feet) rock. Ah to be young and foolish again! We also went up and down the Colorado, south of our location to the Indian Casino but just looked around that day. Another time we geared up for a day long trip that was started at the Park and heading north up to Needles CA to where Route 40 crosses the river. A stop for fuel at the local marina and a trip thought another marina resort found us beaching the boat for lunch break. We had a blast every single time we "sailed" but I think that Oliver enjoyed it the most, sun, wind in his hair and a comfortable place to sleep! It so happened that the weather was unusually warm, okay it was HOT, most days in the low to mid 90's. Being in the boat with the beautiful breeze was really the best place we could be other than in air conditioning and heck that's no fun! As we were going up the River we saw a huge rock with a side view of an "Indian in Headdress", photo attached as well as Petroglyph on the rocks in an area that few people can get to. What a treat for us. Click on the photo to enlarge to see detail.
So our time came to an end and we were sad to part but we already made our reservations to connect next year! You know the saying, "you meet the nicest people RVing", this we can attest to.
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