Bob's Eyes

Tuesday October 1, 2024 Janesville CA.

Spring pond camp

We were sitting around here this morning when Marty decided to try his hand at fishing. He set up his fishing rig to give it a try.

He’s trying fishing but had no luck.

We got on the road and stopped at this historic marker. We are traveling on one of the immigrate trails that went west for some of the first settlers that traveled with horses and wagons.

These guys only had horses and wagons and not much of a road when they went through here in 1860. We had it pretty good compared to what they had to go through.

Donkeys

We passed by these donkeys.

They were a nice looking bunch and not scared of us as we passed them by.

We traveled down this road.

And this one.

And stopped at this historic marker to see what it said.

The road is in better shape now.

We made it out of the dessert and into Janesville CA. for gas.

After gassing up, we headed back into the Plumas forest to a beaver pond camp we knew about and have been to before. We made camp here for the night.

Our camp overlooks part of the beaver pond.

Nice day.

Monday September 30, 2024 Smoky Creek Ranch RD. Ca.

We finally got back in some cell phone service as we are near H 395 headed for Janesville and back into the Plumas National forest.

I posted five or six blogs today, but am not sure they are posted.

Donkey camp

We moved our chairs out into the sun to warm up this morning. It wasn’t that cold, but it was just nice in the sun’s rays.

I decided to go for a walk around the trees that were around Parker reservoir. The reservoir was mostly dry right now.

This was the only water left, a small puddle. Our camp is in the trees in the back.

On the road

Eventually we got on the road, headed south on Smoky creek ranch road. It was aa fairly good road with only a little wash board. It’s a main road. I think we saw one other car today.

We stopped here to check out this spot for a camp, but not good enough for us.

I did spot this spider crawling around. It was about two and half inches.

We went down a side road that looked promising for a camp. It was early in the day but we were looking for an early camp spot.

The little pond looked pretty good.

We pulled our vans around the edge and we were camped. This pond turned out to be a big spring that was the start of a creek.

I walked down along it’s edge to check the area out. The place was loaded with quail.

A little later Marty and I walked over to these trees to check them out as they were in a straight line like they were planted. We didn’t find anything in that spot indicating any kind of structure was once here, but I think there was.