I ventured out onto the semi-frozen shoreline of Lake Pend Oreille, Sandpoint, Idaho today and comped together the panoramic, cold  beauty of Kootenai Bay this morning.  The harshness can be the most beautiful of all.  The eagles were certainly enjoying it...they were a little too far off to capture in this photo.     01/06/2013

Welcome to the Cottages On The Lake...the European influenced waterfront community on the shores of Lake Pend Oreille, Sandpoint, Idaho! The 15-acre Cottages community features 37 homesites surrounding the three-acre Rothenburg Park and/or resting on the Kootenai Bay shore. Other features include spectacular views of the slopes on Schweitzer Mountain and breathtaking Kootenai Bay sunsets on Lake Pend Oreille.  Rothenburg Park boasts a world-class tennis court, soccer field, walking trails, gazebo, historic silo and, of course, a Cottages private community dock and luxurious swimming in one of the cleanest lakes in the Northwest! Coldwell Banker is proud to offer the developer’s ten remaining secondary waterfront lots complete with underground utilities, Kootenai-Ponderay sewer and Sand... 05/02/2011

GOLD HILL ON KOOTENAI BAY       Not a bad view looking across Kootenai Bay here in Sandpoint, Idaho.  Kootenai Bay is one of the "smaller" bays on Lake Pend Oreille.  It is about 3 miles across and 2 miles wide.  Now that Schweitzer Mountain is enjoying the LAST day of the ski season today, I'll be spending my quality time playing on the lake. My office remains up at Schweitzer, however, so please do not hesitate to join me up here for "non-winter" fun (and sales with a little luck...).                 04/11/2010

New Zealand never received the brunt of the September 29th earthquake, as predicted, but they sure got a nice rainbow out of it.  The tsunami was triggered by a magnitude-8.0 earthquake, the world’s largest in two years, that struck south of Samoa. Waves reached at least 20 feet high in parts of American Samoa and swept more than a half mile inland.  This photo was taken by my daughter (a New Zealand resident) from Takapuna Beach outside of Auckland during the event.  That is Rangitoto Island several miles in the distance across the Pacific.  (The sea was up a few feet, but no giant surf). The photo below was also taken on September 29th, but in Sandpoint, Idaho.  That is Gold Hill, a few miles across Lake Pend Oreille viewed from my dock on Kootenai Bay.  If we had a rainbow, the visua... 10/10/2009