Not Snow - Rvs - Walk Your Dog - Horse Finches

Here are just a few extraneous images that were not included in any previous post. This is a short but fun little post.

This is River Oaks RV Park and the lineup of RV’s. This is where we stayed in Oroville, WA during most of June. The park is by no means full and for most of the time we were there only four or five other RVs were in the park with us. The park is only 6 miles from the border crossing and it gets busy with folks stopping for the night, buying groceries, and fueling up before crossing into Canada or heading up the Alcan to Alaska. Behind the lineup of RVs is the Similkameen River which comes out of Canada, joins the Okanagan River and then heads south to join the Columbia.

No this image does not show it snowing. There is a row of large cottonwood trees along the river right behind our RV and the Cottonwoods are releasing their seeds. It was interesting, the center portion of the row of RVs in the above image, had about 90 percent of the cotton while the sites on either end had limited exposure to the white stuff.

Here is the cotton seed on the ground. We wondered why the world is not completely covered with Cottonwood Trees.

We thought this an interesting comparison in Trailer sizes. The one in front, a brand called Scamp, is tiny. We were unsure how people actually lived in the trailer. Next is a more standard travel trailer followed by a larger fifth wheel unit. There is something for everyone.

Oops, then this behemoth parked at a pull through site and spent the night. There is even a small tow behind trailer behind the big Carbon fifth wheel. In many western states you can tow a trailer behind the fifth wheel trailer. Not sure it is legal in Washington State but in many other states it is. One would not even begin to think about backing up this combination at all, not no way, not no how. These larger units are called toy haulers because they have a large garage area in the back where ATVs, motorcycles or other toys can be stored. They must have lots and lots of toys.

We had an image of Tank, the large dog seen here, in an earlier post. Here a person is giving Tank a walk using the golf cart or maybe Tank is taking the cart for a walk. We have a friend, Terry, who manages Cranberry RV Park on Long Beach in Washington State and she just got a Golf Cart and she already had two standard size black poodles. Maybe this is how she gets them their exercise.

Now we are in Libby, MT and we have some horses in the field directly behind our trailer. It was most interesting to see several small birds riding on one of the horses. Could they be Brown-headed Cowbirds or were they some other avian species?

On closer examination we found they were Horse Finches, at least that is what they looked like to us. More likely they are a group of juvenile House Finches but they look like Horse Finches to us. They have been riding around for a while as evidenced by the bird droppings on the back of the horse. What fun to ride around and take in the countryside on the back of a big horse.

These were the last few fun images left from our brief time spent in Oroville, Washington. It is a great place and a worthwhile stop. We hope you enjoyed this short post.

Please let us know if you have any questions or comments.
All the best – George & Deanna