A lake of soda? Sounds like a fantasy straight from the likes of Charlie and the Chocolate factory. When I told Ryan about it he laughed and said, "your joking-the lake isn't really made of soda" "Sure it is" I said, "See it says right there Shasta lake, and Shasta is soda isn't it." He didn't know what to think- he kind of believed me but also knew it was too good to be true. Soda or not the Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area is home of a pretty incredible lake. It is not beautiful - clear and bright blue but also pretty warm for a mountain lake. They created a perfect little swimming area and even warmed up the water there. They attached a big net like curtain to buoys and sunk them creating an area that is more shallow then the rest of the lake - somehow this makes the water warmer. Now they actually do this for the fish - it is some environmental ploy to protect some endangered fish or something but the wonderful bi product is a nice warm swimming hole. We stopped there took some pictures and looked around a bit we wanted to get our passport books stamped but we were about 20 minutes late, the visitors center just closed. So we went ahead and drove into Redding went swimming, had dinner and went to bed. Well some of us went to bed and some of us (like the 5 children) stayed up and watched tv - debatably the most exciting part of the vacation for some of our family.
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