Sunday, July 01, 2007

Bell Bay on Lake Coeur d'Alene

We drove down to the Bell Bay Forest Service Campground via 4th of July pass and Rose Lake. You have to go through Harrison Idaho when you follow this route and it takes a bit longer then the lake route but you don’t have all the curves and slowdowns of the lake route. The campground is a nice one; it is the only Forest Service CG on Coeur d’Alene Lake. We chose a site, #3, and set up for the weekend. Jim the campground host came by and introduced himself. We were one of two groups set up at this time but the campground filled by the end of the weekend.

Thursday night was just setting up and getting everything in order. We went to bed early, read and relaxed. Friday morning I got up and drove into work and Linda did her summer routine of running, reading and relaxing, the three R’s. I returned about 2 PM via the lake route. We had visitors drop in by boat. John and Loretta Sutherland and Mike Beckwith came out for the evening. The boys loaded into the boat and went fishing while the girls stayed in camp and got loaded. Linda made margaritas as they two of them talked and laughed. John, Mike and I cruised along the shore and I flipped a lure in along the shoreline. We mainly talked about the biology of the lake and guns and ammo. Both topics are foreign to me so I kept fishing. We returned about 7:30 PM and I made dinner while the rest chatted. The threesome had to get back before dark so the didn’t stay for dinner. Linda and I ate, cleaned up and went to bed.

The next morning we went for a hike to the top of the campground. There is a second group site up there and we thought it might work out for the Hash Camp out. We had loaded a cache into the GPS and went looking for it but did not find it. It must have been hidden real well because we looked everywhere. Where’s Al Dee when you need him?

Mike, Rayelle and Julia Anderson dropped by in the afternoon. We talked as Julia explored the camp site. It was a very nice afternoon. We miss these two as traveling partners, but they have little Julia to take care of, so we’ll enjoy them when we can.

We were back in town by 2 PM. We cleaned out the camper and got it set for next weekend.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The Group campground you were looking for was the numbered sites. They rent individually when no one reserves the group site and become the group site when reserved.