Today we drove the short distance to the Shasta Lake Dam. Shasta Lake is set among very beautiful mountains. The dam offers free tours so we signed up. Being off season, the tour was Donna and I, a new Shasta Lake empoyee, and our tour guide. Shasta Lake is the second largest dam I the US behind the Grand Coolie dam in Washington State based on volume of concrete. The tour was very interesting and really enjoyable since there were only four of us including our guide. In the summer each tour is 40 people. The tour begins at one of the two towers on the top of the dam and descend to the base of the dam via elevator. You then go outside at the base of the dam to see many of the neat features. We then toured the turbine/generator facility. Our tour guide was a young woman who was fantastic. Our guide was super knowledgeable and enthusiastic about the dam and finding new bits of history.
We explored a little of the town of Redding and took Maverick to the dog park near their small Benton airport. One of the “attractions” in Redding is the Sundial Bridge. It is part of a river recreation area with the Turtle Bay science center, botanical garden, and other attractions. Afterwards we drove out to one of the Shasta Lake recreation areas on the East end of the Lake. It was a nice 15mile drive (one way) through the country but that part of the lake wasn’t very pretty. When we got back to the coach I worked on the computer and Donna fixed both Enchiladas and Lasagna to freeze and have for evening meals. We ate part of the Enchiladas for dinner sitting outside under our awning. It was really pleasant and relaxing.