Bass Lake, CA

When i was younger i used to go with my good friend Derek to Bass Lake every year with his family. Well i hadn't gone in about 5 years and we decided to make a little road trip out of it. Bass Lake is a fun small lake just outside of Yosemite National Park. It has the beautiful tall redwoods and sequoias just like Yosemite with a lake in the middle of it. There are cabins lined up around the lake that you can rent. it's a relatively small lake town with 2 or 3 eateries and one grocery store.

On the lake itself there's one really good rope swing that shoots you about 30' up in the air, its one of the best i've ever been on.

On the other side of the lake theres a run off from a river that provides a small natural water slide mostly for small children. its fun the 1st time but gets boring fast. The cool part about it is getting in the freezing river water and taking into the hot lake water. After feeling the low temp of the river water the lake water feels so hot! The lake is not the best for skiing beacuse there are a lot of boats kicking up wakes chopping up the water. But night boat rides are the best and a romantic fun time to cruize. you can even take the boast to dinner by docking it in the marina and walking up to the restauraunt.

There is some good hiking around as well. One trip that we did in previous years was the hike up devils falls. Its some great scenery and the falls are awesome! there's also a old cable car at the top that we daringly got in to cross the falls. It looks 80 years old and we didn't know if it would hold us or not but are youngness pulled through and we jumped on it haha.

Thats about all i have to say about Bass Lake. Usually alot of Aussie tourists and you can do some day trips to yosemite if you want to its about an hour west.