One Year Anniversary: Pine Flat Lake

I know I literally suck at keeping this blog updated. Should probably make it more of a commitment. Oh, well. School work is really bogging me down. But here I am again! :) Considering it's Thanksgiving Holidays and all.

Let's start with my one year anniversary with Tony. We really couldn't decide where to go until the very last minute. We wanted to go camping by Lake Tahoe (my favorite place in the whole wide world! Second to Disneyland anyway), but all camping grounds are close during the winter season.

I've just been stuck indoor for the past month or two so I really wanted to spend a night in a tent out in the wilderness. You know, just to get away from the city. But it was a lot harder to find new places than we expected because we had to bring our dog, Chewie, with us. And I was being a little picky about the location too. I wanted to get well away from LA. An hour drive was still too close for me, hahaha!

What ended up happening was I found this campsite by Pine Flat Lake in the Sequoia National Park. It was like a four and a half hour drive. The place was right by Fresno. Pretty crazy for a one night camping trip I know.

It was a beautiful lake when we got there. And apparently I chose the furthest campsite from civilization AND the lake. You can see the lake, but it's a little hike down from the site. It's like one of those plateau you see from the water drying up so much.

A view of the lake when we stopped to take a picture break.
Pretty :3

The little Chewman stretching his short legs :)

There were cows along the way too!

When we got to there, the campsites were very interesting. They were extremely close, as in right next to each other, the ten of them. However, the campsites were very clean and well kept. Apparently Pine Flat Lake is predominantly for fishing. No real hiking trails. It was nice nonetheless. Where we were was right at the river bend.

Our campsite!

Fish stand to clean the fishy you caught
(assuming you went fishing, which we didn't)

Chewie, the fluffy dog :3

The tent ground.

The entrance to the campsites.

There was actually a bathroom house with running water and light. You can actually  shower there. And it was cleaner than I expected. Good accommodations I would say. :)

And guess what? Tony didn't bring the two essentials on this trip. A can opener and fuel canisters (for our Jetboil). So what we ended up doing was.....

Yes, that is a hatchet.
And yes, we are opening a can of beans with it.
Look at Chewie waiting for some scrap :)

Woo! Campfire dinner! Thankfully we didn't melt off the plastic covering the handle.

And what can be better than to spend the night eating roasted marshmallows, drinking hot tea, and playing a game of Boggle in the tent?

Yay, campfire!!

And we had a neighbor who stayed until very late at night blasting country music with the occasional pop of a beer can. Apparently, he dragged a very large tree trunk to his fire pit, lit it, and left it there. So we made it our duty to put that thing out before it started a brush fire or something.

Our music provider for the night.

The abnormally large tree trunk that doesn't even fit in the pit.
Still incinerating from the inside as signaled by the smoke.

Tony putting out the fierce fire! Moohahaha!

Because we, I mean Tony, forgot to bring the fuel canister, we didn't want to bother starting another fire to heat up our oatmeal so we ended up going to eat at the nearby diner (the only diner really), which was 15 minutes away.

Then we were on our way home!