On Mother's Day Kevin and I took a road trip...We started out by checking on the wildflower situation on the home front...As I've previously mentioned, I did not sell off all of the land I own when I sold my home last fall...here are a few shots taken there...looking west-northwest toward Dalkena---and across the river toward Saddle Mountain...
Here is the private drive-recently all the blowdown and deadwood was removed from here and hopefully it will recover quite quickly...
These shots were taken from Millpond Historic Site near Sullivan Lake Ranger Station and the small town of Metaline...
Kevin stands on the edge of the Boundary Dam viewpoint...which dang near straddles the Canadian Border...
Those power lines extend toward Seattle nearly 400 miles to the southwest...Over the hill lies Gardner Cave, the second largest cave in Washington...When terror levels are elevated in the US, this view point is closed and snipers are dispatched to protect the dam...
Boundary Dam...is an impressive engineering feat...
Its a long way dooooooowwwwwwnnnnnnnn. And then some...
Power lines extend out from the turbines....
Looking downriver from the dam, the Pend Oreille River flows into British Columbia, Canada...the dam was used as a movie set with an entire town built on the Boundary Dam face for Kevin Costner's monumental flop "The Last Postman" which was filmed almost entirely in Pend Oreille County. Part of the movie Benny and June (starring Johnny Depp) was also filmed in our county....
So, we wound up right on the Canadian border and decided to cross and get something to eat in Nelson...During this entire trip we never traveled more than fifty miles from the US/Canadian Border... After chowing down in Nelson we drove upriver toward the lake...Here Kevin shows his talent at shoveling dirt...got dirt? He'll give you the scoop...
Here is the scenic harbor on Kootenay Lake near Balfour Ferry Terminal...The mountains across from the dock are the mighty Selkirks, which also extend down into the states of Washington and Idaho...
The Purcell Range...
The 100 vehicle ferry the Osprey 2000...
Loading on our ferry...The two boats servicing this run comprise the largest free auto ferry system in the world and run neary 18 hours a day across Lake Kootenay...
This is the smaller of the two boats...and only has a capacity of around 50 vehicles...
The Osprey is much larger and even offers foodservice....cool eh?
Heading out of the harbor toward what is known as "the big water"...
All this fresh water eventually becomes the Columbia River...this Lake is fed by the Kootenai/Kootenay River (different spellings on each side of the border...) The river originates along the Canadian Rockies near Cranbrook BC and then flows into northwest Montana, west into Idaho, then back into Canada....
Kevin strikes a pose...and then another...
A bit unnerving...we were parked at the end of the boat, on an incline...
Sunset was simply stunning...
In every direction we looked-Mountains, Sky, and water...
Looking south toward Creston as alpenglow glanced off the higher peaks...and we were only a little over an hour from the house...Later that night we almost hit a moose outside of Tiger, Washington and a herd of Elk near Nelway BC...reinforcing the wild country we call home...
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