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Occasionally one may see the scat of a Mountain Lion and often the wheeling Turkey Vulture overhead. There were Hawks, Quail and if one were lucky one might see wild Turkey or Boar, the latter which loved to dig up the grassy hillsides, like a farmer plowing a field. One might in some places even hear the howl of Coyote in the distance. Something unique to this park was the Acorn Woodpeckers that have drilled hundreds of holes in dead Oaks and deposited in each one an acorn.
And finally a long dissent down to one end of the lake. But this was not the end of the hike, as there was only one camp site that I have ever discovered, although it was rumored that there was another somewhere. This means almost only one place flat enough to have a camp, not on the road or trail proper. The lake was long and narrow between steep thickly wooded hills, and the camp site was at the far other end, so that it was another hour to reach it, having to snake around the lakes saw tooth edge, in and out of all the many channel inlets, which were dredged out by winter washes and sometimes streams feeding into the lake. One did not want to get all the way out there and find someone else was in the only camp site, so it was first necessary to check with HQs to make sure that no one else had registered this destination.
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