Koocanusa is a portmanteau word: Koo from Kootenay, the river, Ca from Canada, and USA for our great nation. We are camped at this 90 mile (144 km) long lake, created by the Libby Dam in Montana, because I wanted to see the Western Painted Turtles that call Kikomun Provincial Park home. JG has better photos of them. Mine look like bumps on a log. Turtles qualify as my favorite reptile: slow-moving, small, cute, unthreatening. They live in several smaller, warmer lakes created by glacial indentations. The turtles are endangered and don’t much care to reproduce. And their eggs are tasty to many predators.
Kikomun is a popular park with urban boat owners from Edmonton and Calgary. I am at pains to think of good things to say about power-boaters, but here’s one: they gather together socially. For one thing, it takes two to launch or trailer a power boat. While I was swimming in Koocanusa I helped a teen girl whose rudder had gotten stuck in the launch ramp. I helped her lift it out before her dad could return and yell at her. Making family memories.
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Being towed behind a power boat in an innner tube is very fun, that’s another mark in their favor, and I think they have their place on reservoirs in urbanized areas, where natural beauty is already lacking.
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Western Painted Turtles look really cool in a cursory internet search. I can see why you’d want to seek them out!
I’m glad you helped her out, even if you were hard pressed to think of good things to say about her boat. I’m afraid I don’t have a lot to add. I have deep antipathy toward unnecessarily noisy things.
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I like turtles, too. We saw quite a few of them in South Carolina.
Thanks for sharing this.
Tom
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