The next day we took a side trip to Lake Shasta Caverns. You take a bus down to the shoreline, a boat to the other side of the lake, then another bus up the side of the mountain to the caverns. The interesting part of the lake was that the waterline is down 230 feet below normal. They said the waterline has been dropping since 2019. So you see the tree line, then 230 feet of what used to be the bottom of the lake.
I liked the caverns – they were a constant 72 degrees inside while it was near 100 outside. We climbed 600 steps inside to get to the various rooms. Since a 3rd grade group went in before is, they scared all the bats away.
Next stop was Redding. It was too hot to enjoy anything, but we did see this sundial bridge. It’s supposed to be a wing of a bird in flight.
