17 June ‘09 Wednesday
Last Sunday we moved over to Lake Sawyer RV Resort at Black Diamond. This is our first time here and we’re really pleased with what we found. The only negative is most of the RV’s are parked right on top of the other. I mean, if you put your awning out, you’re sure to touch the coach next to you. Now I said most of the sites, the one that we’re parked in has pretty good room on both sides.
Last Sunday we moved over to Lake Sawyer RV Resort at Black Diamond. This is our first time here and we’re really pleased with what we found. The only negative is most of the RV’s are parked right on top of the other. I mean, if you put your awning out, you’re sure to touch the coach next to you. Now I said most of the sites, the one that we’re parked in has pretty good room on both sides.
The negative is the front of our coach is looking directly into the front-side windows of the coach next to us because of the angle in which we’re parked. OK, enough of the negative… The clubhouse, the rec-room, and the large deck all overlooking the beautiful Lake Sawyer make up what this “Resort” is all about…fun and relaxation at its best. About 50 yards off the beach are two little islands. Located on each of them are a couple of small beach cabins that are so “adorable” that they’re almost un-real. With the great weather we’ve been having lately (29 consecutive days of sun and 75+ degrees), we couldn’t wait to paddle our way through and around the lake.
It did take us 2 days to completely circumnavigate the lake, but in doing it we didn’t leave anything unseen. We even had an Osprey take a fish just off our “port side”…pretty cool. Today we went over to Flaming Geyser State Park…
We haven’t been there for over 40 years. They say that you can “never go back” to see and enjoy the same things you enjoyed the first time…well that ran true for Flaming Geyser Park. The drive through the park is still very pretty, but the “geyser” is disappointing to say the least. It is so disappointing that I didn’t want to take a picture of it so as not to embarrass it (just kidding…). Another place that we hadn’t been to for a long time was Black Diamond. In the mid 1800’s, Black “Gold” was found here and Black Diamond was born…it grew to the largest coal mining operation in the Northwest and brought with it a destination location for travelers to leave their homes in Seattle for "the country". They would ride trains (up to 2 a day)
to visit this quaint little town, visit the famous Black Diamond Bakery, and then make their way down into the valley to see the “Flaming Geyser”. We did find a great little restaurant that wasn’t there in 1800.
The building fit well into the era of the 1800’s, but I don’t think they were able find and enjoy a good pizza then. Well we did, and we highly recommend it to anyone that comes this way…a A+ for PIZZA and BEER.