Crescent Bar Thousand Trails

We've stopped for a few days outside Quincy, WA at Crescent Bar Thousand Trails RV Park.

When we were here last fall, we could see the river below the campground, and knew that there was a bank on the other side, but could not see it due to the smoke. (http://trekincartwrights.blogspot.com/2017/09/driving-west-to-quincy-wa.html)

When we arrived on Friday, it was again very smokey, so we figured we again would not see the view. But, the ranger said that the smoke had just come in on Friday, so ... maybe it would clear out again.

On Friday night, Miss Doozie shook and shimmied in the wind - gusts at 35-40 MPH. This morning we awoke to a bright, clear day.

The view from in front of Miss Doozie

We walked down to the lodge and got some pictures of the river from there.

After we drove into town, we stopped at an overlook a little higher in elevation. While this is the Columbia River, it is also Wanapum Lake, formed by the Wanapum Dam a few miles downstream.

Looking across

Looking a little upstream. The Columbia is turning from an eastward flow to south in front of us, soon to turn further east for a while before turning back south and then west, forming much of the border between Washington and Oregon, eventually to exit into the Pacific near Astoria, Oregon.

The area with the green down on the bank is where Crescent Bar Recreation Area is. We talked with a farmer from this area at a fruit stand where we had stopped. He said that the area used to be used for produce growing before the dam flooded the area and created the lake. He had come to this area from Oklahoma with his parents in the early 1950s, when irrigation was first brought into the area. He said that the waters for irrigation come from the Grand Coulee Dam,