Response Paper #2

Splash Times
I had been to lakes before but never to Nacimiento, and never with a speedboat. The lake was crystal blue reflecting off the clear skies and the it was the right amount of hot, not the kind that forces you to stay in your truck with the a/c on, but the one that is toasty. There was a fair amount of people, since it was a weekday, but the good thing is that there wasn’t a lot of sound pollution, only the motors of the boats would be heard at a distance. All summer I worked in the fields, and the week I left my job to prepare for college, my friends from high school invited me to go to the lake with them. So in a way I went to get a mini vacation; however, I had no idea there would be a speedboat. Since it is a state park, people aren’t allowed to live on the shores of the lake, but the people that live in that area had what seemed to be 1 million dollar houses (and that is just an assumption).  If you travel a little further from the lake, most of the people lived in ranches. People go to lake Nacimiento for the reason they would go to any other lake, what would make a desirable place to go is that there is 165 miles of shoreline, in other words, its big! Another reason its famous for is its wildlife, which is filled by classic Californian wild like the California Valley Quail. While I was at the lake I went speed boating, which I had never done, it became one of my favorite memories from last year, all the splashing and being pulled by the boat with inflatables and feeling the rush of the water and air. Being on the shoreline one would see people, cars, boats, families and friends. People laughing about old memories or jokes that uncle Joe just cracked or maybe some little kids fighting over an inflatable in the lake. It was not a hectic view but in a way welcoming. While we were on the speedboat, it felt like it was only us and only us we were on a island (that was moving like 25 mph). Mostly because I was laughing so hard at the mistakes had done while in the boat and enjoying the time we shared with each other. I would definitely go back to Nacimiento, as a matter of fact I am going again this summer with the same people for another round of speed boating. The good memories I now have of this place are the main reason I want to go back, in other words, I know it is going to be a fun time, guaranteed! If I were handed a ticket to go anywhere in the world it would be to the rainforest in south America. There is so much diversity and the feeling of being overpowered by such magnificent trees and to see unique animals that only live there. Plus its been a dream of mine since I was a little kid, I don’t remember when I developed the desire to go, but I do recall daydreaming I was there, slaying thru bush after bush like an explorer.