HIDDEN VIEW CG - HENSLEY LAKE - COE (CA)



SATURDAY - We vacated our campsite 15-minutes ahead of schedule at 10:15AM to make our 48-mile trek down and out of Yosemite National Park to arrive at our Army Corp of Engineers campsite that has electricity.

Before we exited the National Park we dumped our waste tanks and filled our 39-gallon fresh water tank until it overflowed, that's because it has to last us for the next 15-days.

There is a 3300' drop in elevation between the two campsites and when we arrived down near Fresno the tempuratures were in the high 90°F. That's something we didn't have to deal with up in the National Park during the last 2-weeks.


We've got just one night here and we need to drive into Fresno (40-minutes away) to take care of laundry, fuel up with $5.84 gasoline, fill one of our propane bottles, retrieve our Amazon packages at Whole Foods, purchase some firewood and if there's time left, we'll try to get our grocery shopping done.


We tried our regular "divide and conquer" strategy to get everything done, but it just didn't work out this time.

First we filled up with gas and then grabbed a quick late lunch at McDonalds. Then I dropped Tricia at the laundromat while I took care of Amazon, propane, drinking water refills and firewood.

We got everything done except the grocery shopping, so that will have to be taken care of on our travel day tommorow.

We arrived at our new campsite at 12:30 and by 1:15 we were headed into town.

After we arrived back at the campground we checked out the boat ramp at Hensley Lake.

Like most of California's ground water the lake is very low and it's been that way for years.

The original boat ramp ends no where near the water, neither does this secondary ramp.
Where all those trucks are parked is where the current boat launch area is located.

We arrived back at the campsite just before sunset around 6:30PM.

Our site is plenty big enough to fit ROVER and THE POD.

Plus the bath house with unlimited hot showers are just a short walk from our campsite.


We will try to be off the campsite by 9:00AM tomorrow which will give us time to grocery shop and still arrive at our next campsite on time to properly check-in.



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