We go camping at Curlew Lake with Walt's
brothers and friends every June. This year one of
my sisters came along. First night we stopped at
Lincoln Rock State Park
Can you find Abraham Lincoln's face profile
on the cliff? Hence, the park name
It is a beautiful park
Even Ruger, Mel's dog got to come this year.
And since we were near Wenatchee Marci and
Bruce came up for a visit
On to Curlew Lake
We have beautiful sites right on the lake
and wide open. So when we had a wind storm
one night the canopies all got damaged
but the guys worked their magic and fixed
them enough that we could use them for a couple
more days
Mel and I got a 5 mile walk in every morning
on the Ferry County Rail Trail
from Black Beach Resort north to the pink
mark on the yellow trail, which is a
trestle bridge, or south to the south end
of Curlew Lake, where it says "You are here"
each way is 2.5 miles from camp
Sometimes we let Gary and Walt come with us
if they were done fishing for the morning
Trestle bridge
View from the bridge
and on the bridge
We saw many deer crossing the trail ahead of us
Turtles and ducks on the logs in the lake
Mel is way more adventurous than I am.
One day she and Gary were going to
Sherman Pass and took me along.
There were a lot of stops that I've never stopped
at because we are usually hauling a trailer
behind us
This is a shower house for the CCC (Civilian
Conservation Corp) workers during the depression
Spots where some of the other buildings were in
their camp
The shower house was located on the other side
of the river before it was moved to it's present location
Log Flume
We stopped for lunch in Kettle Falls
before returning to camp
pretty views from other Interpretive Sites
One day Walt and I took our kayak out
only when there was no wind
Pretty day on the lake
A couple of mornings we drove up to the
town of Curlew and hooked up to the
Ferry County Rail Trail on that side of
Curlew and walked to the old railway
tunnel
It was a pretty walk along the Curlew River
Mile marker 56
The trail at Black Beach Resort is at
mile marker 71. The trail goes all the way to Canada
The guys fished from the dock right in front
of camp some mornings
and caught some perch
not too big since the water was 84 degrees
the big ones were deep, so they told us
Some days we just relaxed
and some days the guys went out in Don's boat
and caught some more fish
One very hot day we went into Republic and did some
fossil digging
Gary found a nice leaf fossil
but they were few and far between
in the dry hot rock quarry
Then on to Potholes State Park
Steamboat Rock
Sunsets at the park really pretty but it was very hot there
115 degrees
It was good to get home to a little cooler weather!!
Good Times as always!
Thanks Mel for all the pictures, I stole them all from her.
