Lake Tahoe

Leaving Yosemite and the Tioga Pass we stopped off for the night at a wayside town called Bridgeport.
Stayed the night on the Reservoir rv and Marina park owned by an extreemly enthusiatic proprietor who had one volume to his voice, a loud shout., his grand parents came from , a noisy, Isle of Man.

The site was a mixture of tiny marina, rv, tents, horse stabling and pasture and on the edge of a reservoir with great views. A quiet backwater until lorries kept coming past after seven oclock and on a slbbed concrete road these made a noise and could be felt in the van 75 yards away. Where on earth were they going too and how was this little road qite so busy.  Mistery solved next day.  Main road 395 closed 7pm to 7am for months whilst rebuilding by a slippage into a lake is sorted, up to 20mins delay during the day. Our little road was the divert.

A great drive over more mountains with vast views in all directions ushered us into the town called South Lake Tahoe, an inelegant name for a inelegant town.

Many sites in ths area closed so not much choice. We stayed at Tahoe Valley Campground, vast pricey but open well parts of it. about 20 vans and 500 odd pitches it seems the season starts late her though we had high daytime temperatures.

The Lake is beatiful and huge, 75 miles round.  Lake side anywhere almost impossible to get to and where accessible privately owned.  One or two small public beaches which must be jam packed when busy. The road round the lake had great vies on the western side but little on the eastern side.  We spotted a road down with parking at the base so nipped down for lunch  2$ for 15 minute when we arriced at the shore!

Expensive area, South Lake Tahoe had nothing going for it at all, dreadful planning no centre just a main road with a junble of tat along it actually quite typical of many towns so far.

The lake at 6000ft is 1600ft deep and holds enough water to cover the whole of California to a depth of 14inches, useless fact of the day.