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Jun 4, 2011 - Farragut State Park

We headed out on the bikes along the south road and crossed over to the North road. Very nice day not a cloud in the sky. We stopped to watch the model airplanes fly at the airpark and then road around the mostly vacant north area (mostly group camps which were still empty). On the way back we stopped at the Brig museum where Abby made friends with the volunteers who wanted a sheltie and were happy to dog sit while we did the tour. After our bike ride (about 12 miles) we drove to the bay, and tried to rent a boat but they really were not...

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Jun 27, 2010 - Farragut State Park

We are at a beautiful state park,not much to report for today other then we went for nice long walk, tomorrow hope to edit this journal with some picture. Day 2 in the park was same but eventful. Went to a museum at the Brig and learn a lot about the history of this park. Back durning World War 2 it served as a Navel training base, as many as 30,000 sailors at one time. Also went for a long walk again. We have been watching our neighbor mess with a satellite dish, very comical at times and cheap entertainment for us, I even put in my...

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Sep 1, 2009 - Farragut State Park

We camped at Farragut SP on Lake Pend Oreille (pronounced ponderay) in Idaho. This is our 3rd state park in Idaho and each has been a very nice campground in a well maintained park. This park has an interesting past; in WWII it was the second largest Naval training base in the world. Idaho seems an unlikely place for a Navy base but Pacific training was moved inland after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The only building remaining in the park is the brig, which has been turned into a museum. Both wayward sailors and German POWs were kept in...

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