Monday
We stopped on the border of Washington and Idaho at a place called Newton, lumber and railhead are it’s history. We happened on a drug store which had been owned by the same family for four generations, complete with the original ice cream parlor bar and stools, installed in 1915, so we had to have an ice cream Sundae, a ‘grizzly’, a two scooper. Mmm nice.
Across the river was Idaho, land of the potato (though we haven’t seen any growing), big mountains, fast rivers, big lakes and lots of trees. The northern part of the state is quite narrow, called the Pan handle. We followed the course of the Pend Oreille river for a while. Never heard of it? Neither had we, but 400 miles from the sea it is still bigger/faster/wider than any British river. It has been dammed in a number of places to provide a number of huge lakes as well as HEP. We stayed for another one nighter in Sam Owens Park, a Forestry Campground, now run by American Land and Liesure (?). It was very pretty, in a pine forest, on the side of the lake, got some good pics of an Osprey and some average ones of a heron.
2 comments:
More great photos! Never heard of that river! First sight of waxwing! See we always told you West is best! We went the length of Idaho and only saw the potatoes in the south! Go to the Sawtooth mountains, Kootenai Falls, Coeur D’Alene Scenic Byway,Priest Lake,Chatcolet trestle bridge,Hells Canyon Wilderness and on and on! Too much to see too little time - keep having fun x
Your first sight or exclamation that it is my first sight, as though they are on every street corner?
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