Lake Anza - Tilden Regional Park

Finally the rain has left Berkeley and we are enjoying the sun. It's becoming warm and almost hot. Luckily most of the buildings at the lab have air conditioning, But it seams the one in my lab is broken, as well as Baptists who works in a office just down the floor. Marc and Kean have more luck, well only a bit. It seams that the regulation of their system isn't very sophisticated and the room is to cold or to hot.

Stop the complaining and let's go back to the weekend. Friday evening was a pasta dinner at Vicky's place. My thanks to Alice for cooking. It's a lovely house with a huge garden a bit more up the hill. A lot of wild animals like squirrels and deer roam through the neighborhood.

(Thanks to Charlotte for the picture)

After a good night's sleep we looked for ideas, what we could do on Saturday. Looking at google maps, I've found a small lake in the hill. Lake Enza is on the southern part of the Tilden Regional Park and according to google maps within 90 minutes walk. So equipped with a beagle filled with whipped cream (one of our most consumed grocery) Mark (red) and I (blue) started our odyssey to find the lake:

By pure luck we found ourself together at the lake. After a 2h walk, in my case, and some less time on the bike, in Marc's case. But it was worth it and we took a nice hike around the park.

For once the sign had a good reason. This was part of the path around the lake.

Lake Anza is another place we think about going back. Not only because you can bath there and we didn't took our bathing shorts along. It's a really pretty place and the parks invites for some other hikes.