Dry Falls

The scenery close by our campground is beautiful even in springtime with not much greenery or flowers yet. We are close to Dry Falls. This is the place where an ice dam broke back at the end of the ice age and let loose billions of gallons of water creating one of the largest waterfalls ever created. What you can see now is the "dry falls" where the water went over the basalt cliffs. It is over 3 miles long and over a 400 foot drop. Which is three times the length and three times the drop of Niagra Falls. The water carved out a wide gorge or "coulee".

We had a fishing derby at the marina here on Banks Lake next to the campground. They put a net across an area by the docks to make it a fishing area. They stocked the water with almost 500 trout. The trout were from 1/4 pound up to over 5 pounds. The kids caught lots of fish with lots of help from the parents. After the derby they left the net in place for almost a week so the adults could enjoy the fishing too. We gave it a try but didn't have any luck -- we are not good at trout fishing even when they are trapped in small area.

We still haven't gone out on the lake fishing -- it might as well be Minnesota -- so windy and the wind is unbelievably cold. The wind is coming off of the snow in the Cascades -- brrrr.

Coulee City, Wa

We finally made it to our destination. We are in Coulee City, Wa and will be here for the summer. We have a nice campsite and can see the lake from where we sit. Those are the pictures I took. We are working here at the campground -- it's pretty easy -- make sure people pay at the self pay station and are quiet after 10PM.

We had terrible weather pretty much all the way up here. It still is pretty cool -- barely in the 50's and low 30's at night. Its been too cold and windy so far to fish but we can't wait. Walleye fishing is open year round and so is bass fishing. We have seen a few fish caught right from shore. There is a nice marina, docks and jettys here next to the campground so all we have to do is throw out a line!

We haven't done much exploring yet but we hope to get out and take some pictures of the beautiful canyons, etc around here. The campground has no WIFI so I'm now using the library. I hope to keep the blog updated every Monday.

Traveling through Utah

We left Wellton on Wednesday the 30th and spent our first night in Kingman, AZ. We followed the Colorado River up to Lake Havasu City and then went up to Kingman. We went across the new bridge by the Hoover Dam. You can't see anything of the dam or the bridge for that matter going over it. Our next stop was a little town called Leeds, UT just north of St. George. We spent two nights there so we could visit Zion National Park. The picture of the waterfall was in Zion. It is a beautiful park and they have a shuttle service to ride through the park. You can get off at a number of stops and hike around and take lots of pictures of the beautiful canyon walls and peaks.

We then drove to Provo, UT and stayed two nights to wait out some snow showers. The picture of the mountain with snow was in Provo. Provo is surrounded by mountains that still have snow on them. There is also a huge lake, Utah Lake, along the west side of town. We heard from local fishermen that it has walleyes in it. It would have been wonderful to try and fish but a little too cold for us.

We are now in Mountain Home, ID and may have to wait out some rain/snow for a day or two. I'm hoping our next post will be when we are at the campground in Coulee city, WA.