Prairy Creek Beach

Before we got to the beach campground, I noticed a slight lack of power. Since the greasecar filter hasn't changed since the first install, I decided it was time to change this filter with a similar filter from Napa. This is a bit messy, as the filter is filled with vegetable oil, and the new filter has to be filled up with vegetable oil, to minimize air pockets. Since this was the first time and we're still a bit far from Arcata, I hoped we wouldn't get stuck. Decided to get it going before the somewhat treacherous trip through the muddy steep dirt road over some mountains to get to the beach. A bunch of elk were not too interested in the sound of a diesel, so they moved away. The german shepard that is one of our 4 dog passengers in our big driving doghouse also noticed the elk and started barking. When I started on diesel and switched to veg, the engine stalled...oh, oh. Back on diesel, after some starting this worked, and I decided to go fast on the highway, to make it easier to switch to veg. This worked, a bit of sputtering to work out the air, but it got better. Pictures to follow, as this library has a somewhat antiquated computer setup. Sometimes libraries can't be used as they require log-ons to use the internet. But the smaller towns seem to be less sophisticated so those work better.

The Dog House

Luckily we're not into carpeting, as the dogs enjoy the water and Skeeter below has a thing with digging in the mud..

As Bailey the Shepard is rather large for this camper, laying on the ground takes up more space than just sitting in the dinette, so we preferred her sitting in there..