I Wanna Live HERE

Yesterday, we went on a free, historic walking tour in the park. Honeyman State Park was built in 1938 by the Civilian Conservation Corps. Several of the original buildings are still intact, and several others have been rebuilt according to the original plans. Our tour guide, a volunteer and retired history professor from Bakersfield, CA, and his wife, showed us around and provided interesting information about life in the CCC as well as a demo on how to make cedar shake shingles, de-bark logs for building, and cut stone, all with hand tools, just as it was done originally.

Today, on the recommendation of one of the park rangers, we took our kayaks over to Woahink Lake, about a mile from the campground. It's a large lake, with a nice little beach and day-use area, group tent campsites, and a boat launch on one end. We paddled around looking at the homes built on the lake. Some were obviously summer homes, but many of them looked to be year-round homes. It's kind of a standing joke with us for one or both of us to say "Let's live here," when we come to a pretty new place, and we will drive (or paddle ) around, picking out "our" house. My personal favorite this time was a weathered gray wooden house with cedar shake roof and a huge deck overlooking the water. Steps (way too many steps, according to Steve) leading down to the lake, a boathouse, and a floating, roofed deck with a hot tub. Steve snapped a photo of a house that's for sale, right on the water, and no steps. No fact sheet, but a realtor sign and phone #. Maybe we'll call, just for fun.