A new camping ground, a new lake to swim at! This Tahoe trip was a total blast! Except for the bears. It was bear season, and the black bears were the night patrol at the Ed Z'berg campground at Sugarpine Point. But there's more! A solar eclipse was going to take place on August 21st, 2017! It was only supposed to be covered 80%, but who cares? An eclipse is a special time, even if it is still sunny when its at its high!
The first day, we went down to the dock at about 5:00, but the rest of the time we were there, we went in the morning and left at dinnertime. One thing that highlighted our trip was a crayfish catching! Crayfish at Lake Tahoe are considered an invasive species, so the law was, CATCH CRAYFISH! And so we happily did so. One evening, we drove down to Tahoma, (a town right next Sugarpine Point) to get pizza for dinner. Since there was a l-o-n-g line of people for the pizza restaurant, me and my family walked down to a close dock to enjoy a quick look at the water while the line lessened. We came across a father and his two daughters from London who were fishing for crayfish. They were using raw bacon and some kite string. They had about 20 crayfish who were already in the bowl they had out. They filled us in, and we dutifully completed the tedious accomplishment the next day. In fact, I posted a video of the process of catching a crayfish. But unluckily, the crayfish escaped. In the end, though, we caught about 12 crayfish. And consumed then with a great deal of butter. They surprisingly tasted, of all things, like shrimp and popcorn. But we were all a sorry bunch indeed when the last bite slid down the last person's throat.
Bears at night, bears in light, they're both quite creepy to see I have to admit. But from a distance, they are another wonder of God's world. But if you turned around in your seat at the glowing campfire in-that-kind-of-night-you-just-can't-see-a-thing and two reflective green eyes stare back at you for one second super close to your nose, do you call that a distant glance? Not in the least! At least thats what flashed through my mind she that same thing happened to me! You just absolutely can't help but feel afraid of bears, right? Luckily though, we did NOT see a bear at all really, with its whole massive bulk showing, at least. But that traumatization was the closest I've ever got to one, save the zoo. Creeeeeepy!
The eclipse was a grand thing. A picture perfect, (at least if it was possible to take a picture of it without being blinded) powerful, changing sun-and-moon act, sun, enveloped in moon. It was a glorious, if not blinding, thing to look a through special eclipse glasses. And one memory that would last for years to come. In fact, our whole trip will. After all, this is the only camping trip to Tahoe I've been to!
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