Priest Picts

If you are ever wondering just why Linda and I go out every weekend and explore the area around us, this will answer some of your questions. Today we saw a tree that was covered with shoes. Have you ever visited a tree that is covered with hundreds of old worn out shoes? Then if you never have, you should, and if you have visited this Cedar tree covered in history, you understand the fruits of weekend exploration.

Staying at home and relaxing on weekends is fine, but if we had been ones to take that path we would have never visited the Freemont Street Bridge Troll, in Freemont, WA, and in that same regard, the Priest Lake Shoe Tree .
Exploring and visiting oddities of the region sometimes comes with another past time, Geocaching. We visited the Shoe Tree because there is a cache hidden near within fifty yards of the shoe depository. This humorous site is one of the byproducts of getting out and looking for caches. On the way to find the tree we also found a cache called, Bigs Flat Tire Blues Cache (song not included). Both caches were easy to find, and the area’s leading to them were as beautiful as they come.

Driving back from the big tree we passed a couple road signs and I had to take a couple pictures for this blog. Our Saturday drive ended at the little store at Nordman where we bought a couple ice cream cookies. I looked back in the blog and noticed that about every time we go out Geocaching, riding bikes or exploring we usually end up having ice cream somewhere. Just another wonderful byproduct of weekend exploration I guess.

Prior to the morning excursion, we had driven over to Jim and Pam Headley’s trailer and found them both down at the docks. Jim had gone fishing early that morning and caught six real nice lake trout. When we arrived he had them all cleaned and was getting them packed up for freezing. We sat and talked a little while, Jim and Pam were up at Priest to wash down the trailer, we left after a few minutes so that they could get started.

When we returned from caching and ice cream I drove over to the Headley’s and watched them clean their trailer. When we returned from caching and ice cream I drove over to the Headley’s and watched them clean their trailer. It was a bit more work then I really wanted to watch so I drove back to the camper and the three of us watched the moon come up. It took about forty shots of the sunset and moon rise. There was a solo sail boat out on the water, but I couldn’t get a clean shot of it.
We went to bed and read for a while, but sleep always comes fast up where it so still, cool and quiet.

We got up and went to the Chimney Rock Café with Jim and Pam. It was a real nice breakfast! After the food, we went to the Headley’s and took a boat ride to the upper lake. There was a lot of boat traffic on the thoroughfare and when we were on Upper Priest, two sea planes landed on the water. The ride was very beautiful and we really enjoyed it. Kobi stayed in the front of the boat and kept his head down, I think he could have done without the boat ride, be we sure liked it. We returned to the dock, jumped into the Jeep and drove back to camp. We packed up quickly and drove home.