While there we drove over to Virginia City, Mt and saw a city stuck in the 1800's. There are wooden side walks and the town looks as it might have during that time, except for the paved instead of dirt street.
The buildings were old and if the cars weren't on the street, you could imagine you were 110 years in the past. We got there a little late in the day, so a lot of things were already closed for the day.We moved onto Island Park, ID on Sunday after attending church in Ennis. Valley view park was like we remembered except there seem to be more rules than before. We are on the first row next to the highway and road noise is something of a problem.
The Internet air card is dial-up speed, so I will update this post with pictures when we have faster speed.
Monday we went down to see Mesa upper and lower falls, about 40 miles south of the CG. The falls are on Henry's Fork of the Snake River. This fork also forms Henry's lake, which is up by the campground. The sight was spectacular it was well worth the drive. The vistas are awe inspiring. There was an old lodge. built around 1910 and has been restored and maintained by the US Forest Service. It was built for guests to see and enjoy the falls.
There were animal pelts of many of the native fauna of this area and hooves and legs of different animals. There was an aquarium with fish from river and set up as a natural habitat. A really nice hands on display.
When we were here 2 years ago there was a wildfire just outside the East gate of the park and the East gate area was a staging area for the firefighters. It was closed to traffic then, so the Rogers missed that area of the park.Yesterday we went to see that part of the lower loop. It had changed so much since we had seen it back in the early 90's. That area had been burned badly in the '88 wild fire. The Lodge Pole Pine pine cones need fire for the cones to open end expel the seeds. The new trees are getting quite large after 21 years and the change is very noticeable.
So now the Rogers have seen the entire park that can be seen from the road.
The traffic through the park is quite heavy this time of year. This is the most visited National Park in this country.
Ted and Donna have decided to cut there time here short and are leaving here on Sunday. We are staying until the 10th of August as we are heading further west to meet the kids.
We have been with the Rogers for almost 2 months, and this has been such a wonderful trip. We have seen and done so much since this trip has begun, but all good things must come to an end.
This was the breakup point anyway, but we will miss them.
Ta ta for now
1 comment:
Virginia City and Island Park are great we were there in May. We are in Oregon where it is hot everywhere but the coast (guess where we are).
Harry and Juju
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