We spent a few days in Coeur D'Alene doing touristy stuff.  We checked out the shops downtown one day.  We also took an interesting 90 minute tour on Lake Coeur D'Alene and looked through a historical museum.    That night we ate at a floating restaurant known as "The Cedars".  It's been there a really long time.  A short few years ago there was a huge storm on the lake.  The owner spent two days on his boat hooked up to his restaurant with the boats engine on just to keep the restaurant from floating away.  We had a huge dinner of prime rib (the best we've ever had), prawns on a skewer and Alaska crab legs.  Good Livin!  Tomorrow we're off to Wildwood Recreation Site in Oregon.

 We are on top of the boat waiting to leave the dock for our lake tour.  The sun was shining so it was hot up there.

 Where the tour ship docked was also an airplane you could take for a 40 mile flight.  It took off and landed before we even left the dock.  So it was a short flight.  But you took off and landed on the water.

 Here is a pretty interesting "cabin" built onto a rock.  The tour had a "canned" presentation and this home wasn't mentioned.  There were lots of huge, very high end homes built around the lake.

This is the renowned floating golf hole.  You tee off from shore then take a small covered shuttle boat to putt out.  It's on cables and can be moved to provide a 75 to 175 yard tee off to hit it from shore.

 Summer season's work-camper/volunteer's of Dent Acres Campground, 2012

 This huge landslide happened 2 years ago and forced a two lane road into a one lane.  And of course it's the connecting road from Dent Acres to Orofino.

 160+ entrants in this year's City of Orofino's "Show-N-Shine".  There were many cool collectible vehicles to be seen.  This picture is of the baseball field at the city park.

 My bike was picked as Best Motorcycle.  A professional photographer took pictures as it will appear on next years event t-shirt along with the other top finishers (Best in Show, Mayor's Choice and People's Choice).

 Just a few days before leaving for our next assignment in Oregon our fellow volunteers and ranger all got together for a buffet going away party.  What a great group of folks.  We'll always remember our time here with fondly.

 This is the boat dock at one end of Lake Coeur D'Alene.  Cruise ships in the foreground.  Under all the blue roofs are big power boats.  The accompanying floating dock is over 3,000 feet long and is the biggest in the Northwest.

 Cathy is standing in front of a portion of a huge aquarium located inside a resort high rise at the waters edge.  Huge huge Coy were swimming and all of them were eatin-size!  They were very neat to see.

While driving through Coeur D'Alene we saw this huge eagle sculpture.  This is not a trick photo.  That eagle is as big as the roof.  The sign stands in the grass immediately in front of the entrance.

We're grilling the catch-of-the-day. The fish grill has been hard to find as we've been looking for one for 4 months now.  Finally.........

 Lightening struck this pine tree just a few days ago.  Up close it looks like it was laser engraved.  Our coach is located about 300 feet from here.  Wow!

 Chloe and Zoe are "chillin" & checking out the scenery just to see if there is something to bark at.

This deer was spotted not far from camp.  There are lots of white tail around.  So far haven't seen any elk.

Although we don't have any pictures, our most memorable events with wildlife so far have been when we saw a very big wild male moose about a 1/4 mile East of Lolo Pass.  And once when riding the winding roads out of camp on the Harley we startled a brown hawk out of pine tree who then flew along side of us for a short while.  Cathy could actually hear the hawks wingbeats.  It was Amazing!

 Some of the pine trees in the mountains around Orofino, Id have this really wide fan styled branches.

 On our way back to Dent Acres Campground from Missoula we came across this guy with this truck cab on his roof.  He eventually turned out on a gravel patch pitching back and forth to, thankfully, let the backup of traffic go by.  Wow!

This was a very exciting moment.  Our 4 year old grandson had never gone fishing before.  And he caught this small mouth bass on his first try!  But we let the fish go as he thought the fish was "nice".

 Here is an old elevated train tressel located on the outskirts of Orofino.  This area historically is a lumber town.  I asked if the train still used it and was told they thought so.  I haven't seen any trains moving in or out of Orofino in the 3 months we've been here.

Also on the outskirts of Orofino is this abandoned one room school house.  I talked with a lady at a shoe store downtown and she told me that she attended it when she was a kid.

 This little frog is a "regular" and if often seen sitting on the credit card machine the ranger used to have people pay for their camp sites.

After a time chewing on this stick Zoe decides she had to roll on it.  It's camping with a Doxie!

 We drove about 20 miles to Elk River.  The population is less than 90 full time residents.  This lodge/store was very fun to walk around in just to check out all the taxidermy.  We had Huckleberry ice cream cones while we were there.

 Although an overcast day these geese added a perfect touch to the calm water of Elk River.  I collected a couple of geese feathers I found at the shore line to add to a walking stick I've carved.

The "not-so-fun" part of the rv live style.  Here is Cathy trying out our new sprayer.  She had to put on that t-shirt around her face because if you lift the sprayer out too far you will get a..... let's just say it's less that ideal.

 At the beginning of the uphill climb from Orofino to Dent Acres Campground is this very pretty view of Orofino and the Clearwater River.

 I found this baby Bull snake trying to warm up on the asphalt street in the campground not far from our site.  Not a good place for him.  After pictures I took him back into the forest.

 We took a trip over to the Group Camp to check it out.  It's about 2 miles from Dent and is available only on a reservation basis.  This great place to sit overlooks the Dworshak lake.  Very peace full and quite.

 We had a group of Boy Scouts start a canoeing trip from our dock.  The canoe in the middle is the scout master and he is yelling for the front running group to wait for them.  They didn't.

 Here is a really cool train trestle that supported the active logging industry of the day.  I asked if it is still in use and was told that is should.

 Dworshak Dam and Reservoir is 54 miles long with 184 miles of forested shoreline.  There is 19,800 surface acres of reservoir, 29,600 acres of land with 3,500,00 acre-feet of water storage.  Approximately 3 million megawatt hours are produced annually by 3 generators.  It is the highest straight axis concrete dam in North America.  717 feet high and 3/4 of a mile long.  And it leaks!