The Week After Labor Day is Quiet

Labor Day was the nicest day of the weekend.  Too bad nearly everyone left early.  We cleaned about 59 sites in 8 hours. Tuesday is usually a light day so Sonny works in the campground while I pick up litter on the beach, at group camp and the side hill where the wind blows items from the beach.  Most of the time, people aren't intentionally leaving litter.   It's the wind. Sometimes, the wind blows litter out of my bucket as fast as I put it in.

Someone spent an afternoon making this fort beside one of the logs
in the campground.

All is quiet on our block.  Not a tent or RV in sight anywhere you look.

Labor Day evening, we joined friends at Glacier View Campground which
is 5 miles up the lake.  This is a view of Dirty Face Peak that
we don't see from the State Park beach. The Peak is 6000' and
the trail up is arduous. We just admire it from afar.  We
have driven the Jeep along Forest Roads towards the peak.

Pretty sunset from Glacier View.  There are only 20 sites
there and most are right on the lake.  Very steep access
to the campfire pit.

Friends at the campfire relaxing after a busy summer of campground activity.

Beach art

Tepee?

Fishing season ended on August 31st
but the remains are still visible, especially
 near the boat launch.

Someone threw the whole fish into the fire ring on the
beach.

Now that the campground is quiet, the deer are around in the mornings.
This deer is right across the street from our site.

The camp store is closed now except for weekends.  We go
over to the Midway Store about 3 miles away where there is a small RV park.
Their seesaw has real saddles to ride on!

Looking down the hill from site #40 towards our 5th wheel.  Nobody around!

The wind was blowing around 20 mpg over the weekend.  Can you see
the kite stuck in the pines?  It's the third tree with a kite.

Beach creations

On Tuesday, we watched  this storm coming over the lake towards us
bringing a downpour.

A fuzzy picture but it looks like a kite boarder waiting for the right
moment to launch into the lake.  I didn't get to see if he actually did
before serious rain began to fall.

Wednesday morning, a doe and her fawn walked by.

We drove into Leavenworth on our day off.  I have been sitting at the computer
for several hours working on a big project and needed to walk. This is
the Riverwalk Trail along the Wenatchee River.

On our walk near the Leavenworth Golf Course,
we saw several places with evidence
of bear scat.  When Sonny was
golfing there a few weeks ago, the
staff told him to beware of hole
#11 where a mom and cub have
been seen.

The Leavenworth goat

Unique camping outfit parked in Leavenworth.