Curlew Trip in June

 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.