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On the third and
final day (12/11), they left the motel in the morning and drove about an
hour to Shasta Lake. The Shasta Lake is more recreational area with a lot of
boating and camping activities in summer rather than tourist spot for
sightseeing. Since it was a rainy winter day, it seemed there were not many
visitors. When they bought tickets of a group tour to the cavern, they were
the only members of 10:00AM tour group. It was more like a private tour as
they were only passengers of the boat crossing the lake for about 10 minutes
to the other side of the lake to go to the cavern. They took a tour bus
(only 4 passengers again) to the cavern for another 10 minutes climbing
about 800 feet and a lady tour guide who drove the boat and the tour bus
gave tour to them all the way, just for them only for about two hours of
tour in total.
It was quite a big
cavern with many large rooms and high ceilings. It was very wet cave with
lot of water still dropping from ceilings. They found two tiny mushroom
growing in this dark cave. Because it was too big for the flash light of
small digital camera, please understand the pictures above which could not
regenerate natural colors.
The bear was
displayed at the outside of the cave in the entrance building of the cave.
The bottom picture shows a part of Shasta Lake (far less than 10% of whole
lake) taken from the entrance building of the cave on this rainy day (very
light rain).
After they enjoyed
this wonderful cavern tour, they left the lake around noon, drove Highway 5
and highway 80 to Novato where D. I.'s aunt has her younger brother. D. I.
dropped two ladies there from where they will leave for Korea next day at
San Francisco airport.
It was a great very
enjoyable trip for all four travelers except the accident at high elevation,
which could be also a unusual interesting memory quite a long time. D. I.
and Jane were very glad and happy to see aunt first time after 13 years,
when she visited D. I.'s house in Seoul on his Hwankap (69th. birthday)
while D. I. was working for Samsung Electronics and lived in Korea for 10
years.
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