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The three of us; Juan, Isabella and I will depart on an overland trip begining in Tanzania and ending in South Africa. On our return home, Isabella and I will stop by Belgium via London.

... the national parks to miss out on this was probably at the bottom of our list. After getting off at the lake isabella exit from the motorway, we had another treacherous drive through roads that cut through the mountains and literally winded on and ...

... were high wind warnings on the freeways we had to take to get back to Menifee.   We decided to stay back at Isabella and monitor the weather while everyone else went home.  We asked Jan & Dave and Laurie & Larry to ...

... them. Was pretty mad. We cam across a cactus forest as we cruised through some of the smaller valleys. Eventually we got to Lake Isabella, managed to find the usual crap motel, checked in and had a chill before venturing to get some food. There was a ...

... , and so off to California I went. Mom and Larry picked me up at the airport and we headed off to the Sierra Mountains, to Lake Isabella for the weekend. Their lake house is so cute! It's just a mobile home, but it has charm to it. The Lake itself was ...

... open water watching the sharks circling slowly back and forth.  The best shark encounter, however, occurred off the coast of Isabella Island.  This was one of my favorite snorkels, curving along the coast of the island and ducking in and out ...

... , as there was chances to see whales on the way. We sailed a couple of hours from Elizabeth Bay to Urvina Bay, along the coast of Isabella. We did not see any whale nor dolphin, which were all over the place the week before... We saw a pinguin and a few ...

... from the coast (mangrove need fresh water, but also the tidal salt water for nutrients), and walked on a desolated lava landscape. Isabella is a recent island, with four volcanoes (From older to most recent: Sierra Negra, Alcero, Wolf, Darwin, and Azul), ...

... to get on some backroads and avoide most of the mess, but it made our trip a lot longer. We settled for a KOA on Isabella Lake which is below the National Park. Fortunately, it had a bar and the first round was free. Actually, everything was free. The ...