September 17-21, 2008
We decided we needed a vacation from our retirement adventure so we went to La Pines, Oregon about 25 miles south of Bend Oregon to La Pines State Park. We stayed for 5 nights. On the day of our arrival we met Frank and Marilyn who were head of a Good Sam RV group. They were rally masters for a work session at the park. About 7 other RVers joined them for this event. Frank invited us over after dinner to play Mexican Train. This is a game with dominoes, one we had never hearad of, that was a lot of fun to play.
On the 18th we went to Crater Lake National Park. This was about 60 miles southeast of La Pines SP. When we arrived at the park the first lookout was over the lake with a perfect view. The water was so blue and the view of Wizard Island was spectacular! We spent most of the day driving around the lake and seeing different views. By late afternoon the view were getting hazy because of three fires burning to the north of Crater Lake.
La Pines State Park is on the Deschutes River. There is supposed to be great trout fishing there; however, the river was difficult to get down the banking to. We decided to drive about 15 miles from the campground and went to Twin Lakes to kayak and fly fish.
Steve taught me how to fly fish. I was not too lucky but on the first day Steve caught two rainbow trout and the next time we went he caught two more. We ate the first two and then froze the others for later.
The weather was cool and the water was too. But the kayaking and the fishing were great!
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