Saturday, September 10, 2011

Juanita Lake, The Big Buffalo and Home…..

After picking up a few goodies in new Rockford, we headed out to Marty and Cindys place on Juanita Lake…..

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As always, they were excellent hosts and made sure we had a good stay!

The water was really high….in fact, we had to leave our car about a half mile out and Marty picked us up in his 4wd SUV…..had to ford water about a foot deep…..the lake was approaching their house!

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Had a good time visiting…..

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They have a pontoon!

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In which they took us for a cruise around the lake!

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The navigator, Tressa!

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The other Navigator, “Strike”

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A conference with the navigator….

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“The Captain”

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The Captain was going to slow, so Marcy hijacked the ship….

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But the Captain kept a close eye on things…..

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Tressa had lots of fun on her jet ski !

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Jerome and Karen also came up on Sunday!

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Sadly, the weekend had to come to an end…….we headed for Jamestown and had a nice visit with Yvonne and Jack….as usual, Yvonne had a delicious meal prepared for us!

We also stopped at Frontier Village at Jamestown and done one  more tourist thing….

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Very interesting place….Many historical buildings from the area have been relocated here, including the original Northern Pacific Depot from Jamestown….

And of course the main attraction!

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This thing is HUGE! If you have not seen it, be sure and stop there if you are in the area…..

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There is a resident herd of Buffalo in the adjacent valley…..including three white buffaloes….quite rare…the Native Americans considered them sacred….you can see one of them in the next picture….

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And…..after approximately 2500 miles, we arrive back in South Dakota…..always good to get home, but we will miss all the friends and family we visited……

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So long, until our next adventure!