LAKE HEMET IN THE SAN JACINTO MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA

What a shock to the system - we left San Diego and drove into the mountains to Lake Hemet at 4340 ft. to spend the weekend and the temperature dropped to 12oC - come back Baja heat! 

YUCCA FLOWERS

LAKE HEMET CAMPGROUND

WESTERN BLUEBIRD

A walk round the lake and the wildlife we saw

GREAT BLUE HERON

WHITE PELICANS

After hardly doing any hiking for a month (except to find the margaritas!) we had a great day on the Deer Springs Trail. Sun shone as we did a 6.6 mile round trip hike to Suicide Rock with panoramic views of Idyllwild and Tahqutiz Rock, the hike started at 5600 ft and climbed to 7300 ft.

MANZANITA FLOWERS

HUGE PINE CONE FROM THE COULTER PINE

FAT GREY SQUIRREL

SUICIDE ROCK

TAHQUTIZ ROCK