Snake River Tour (7/26/2016)

These are some of the pictures we took during our Snake River jet boat ride on Tuesday. The tour was 58 miles up the river into the Hells Canyon Recreation Area. We met some interesting people and saw some of the most beautiful scenery I have ever seen. Great tour, great lunch, great people, It couldn't get much better than this. The people in Idaho are very friendly and they live in a super nice place. Enjoy the pictures.

Volcano's make neat formations.

Captain Butch and mate Joe Bob.

Local Bighorn practicing their butting skills.

The moon joined us for the day.

Petroglyphs from the prehistoric days.

Some people have been here for a long time.

Rafters. Some on a full week trip.

Real history here. They had a paddle wheeler on the river in the 1800's. It didn't have enough power to make it up some of the rapids so they would run a cable through this ring in the rock and winch it up the rapids from the boat. The boat was used to supply mining operations and homesteading. The sad ending is that the cable was caught in the paddlewheel and the boat sunk.

Patriotic Valley.

Another tour boat.

The guy on the right has the hard job.

The girls on the left mooned us when we got along side them. To bad I put my camera away.

Captain Butch telling us a story about former mooning in the valley.

The further up the river the narrower it got and the rapids got a little stronger.

I picked him out on the cliffs above the boat. Rare along the river this time of year.

We stopped at a waterfall that runs all year. The water has formed a natural bathtub here.

Joe Bob shows the tourists how to use the natural tub. 59 degree water.

Selfie with the tour behind us.

I believe that's a photobomb. This young couple were a lot of fun. He was a geologist with his PHD so we were able to ask a lot of questions about the valley. Fun kids. They swam during our stops along the river.

Our final stop. Neat farm owned by the tour company. They generate their own power from damned water. So this place without a normal road had A/C.

Beach at the last stop. The sand is washed down from the Salmon River that flows into the Snake about 10 miles upstream.

This was our RV park in Clarkston, Washington. It's a lake here because of the dam downriver. A major recreation spot.