Glacier Vacation Sunday - Day 5
Sunday, August 25th
Walked around City Park and then realized there was a wooden
boat show at the marina. It was free! What a bonanza. We
walked through the boat show admiring the boats. There were
old boats back to 1940, and new boats made as late as 2018. Stancraft
and Couer Customs
are two local boat companies who had several boats each in
the show. They were stunning. One was for sale for $290,000.
At 10:30 we boarded a cruise boat for a
cruise around the lake, including brunch. The tables and
chairs were very close together. Fortunately the tables were
less than half full so it wasn't as bad as could have been.
The food was pretty good, but not very hot and nearly cold by
the time we got back to the table with it. The boat tour was
decent, and the weather was fine. Sunny and breeze. A perfect
day for the three sail boats that were out (one of them
motoring - duh). After the boat excursion
we headed to Spoken Washington. We checked into the Hampton
Inn there and then headed to Manito Park. We hiked around
there a bit, checking out the flowers mostly, then drove
downtown to the falls park. They have closed
several bridges across the river and turned a large area into
a park. It's still under development. I'm not sure we were so
impressed with the park, but the river and falls are pretty
neat.
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Couer Custom boat. Hard to
see from this angle, but it has a barrel stern like the
old classic speedboats.
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Square rigged boat. The only
sailboat in the show. Very impressive piece of work
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Float plane landing. This
pilot was an artist. He taxied it up close to the dock,
shut of the engine and it coasted and made a 45 degree
turn. He was able to step off the float onto the dock
with the dock line.
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This is a big park with a
small lake, a rose garden, and this garden. There is
also a conservatory, which we did not go into.
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The river park downtown
Spokane. Impressive river and falls. We weren't really
impressed by the park they are still building.
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