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Even though Lake Tahoe is only three and a half hours away from my Northern California <\/a>home, I hadn’t been there in over ten years. So, when Peter and I were offered a free cabin for a couple of days there was no way I was turning down this getaway. Free is good. Besides it was salmon spawning season and I had my heart set on watching the salmon run. I am a voyeur like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Taylor Creek Salmon Run in Lake Tahoe, California<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Taylor Creek has many beautiful sights, but one of the most interesting is seeing the Kokanee salmon run each fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perfect timing for us. We parked at the head of a trail and walked the short distance to the main attraction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along the way, I found the largest pine cone\u2026EVER. And Peter found the smallest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Truth be told, one of the biggest pine cones in the United States is the Sugar Pine which could be over 24 inches long and my find was just a mere 9 inches. But, it was still bigger than my head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After playing with pines cones, we passed by these gorgeous Aspen trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then we came upon this…thing. I couldn’t even begin to wonder what the heck it was. I guessed it was some sort of sun observation device. Nope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is a monitoring station used to predict the annual water supply created by melting snow. Okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We slowly gawked and walked past the 9,735 foot Mt. Tallac. Seeing the Salmon run was starting to be an afterthought to all of the other beautiful sights along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then we arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the fall the salmon begin to turn bright red and the male develop a hooked jaw. This signals the start of spawning season and they begin to travel back to Taylor Creek where they were born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once the salmon arrive, the female builds a nest, the male fertilizes the eggs and both sexes die. Very Romeo & Juliet-esque. Several months later the babies are hatched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We walked to the trail end where hundreds of salmon end up to spawn and you are able to witness this moving sea of red.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a big fan of any traveling that starts out with a check off my bucket list<\/a>. I think I’m going to like Lake Tahoe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever seen the salmon run? Have you ever been to Lake Tahoe in Northern California<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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