The next few days I spent riding my bike around town and enjoying the weather. Oroville’s population is only a few thousand, down from when it had it’s glory days supplying the growing Northwest with fruit, but overall, it’s a nice town. Quiet, peaceful, low crime rate, nice weather, and plenty of opportunity to fish, boat or hunt if you like that sort of thing.
A couple of days after I got to town, there was a parade celebrating spring or something. Here’s a few pictures of that:
The color guard marches by...
Off in the distance, something...
Nice horse drawn carriage.
The Queen's court.
High school marching band.
Another Queen's court?
More pretty girls.
Oooo, horses.
And another.
After I got bored with the parade, I took a bike ride further up into the hills around town for the exercise and a look see. Really pleasant day.
One of many orchards.
Saw some wild life over there but missed getting their picture.
A look down at the RV park where I'm staying. Named River Oaks.
Although denuded of trees, still not many houses in the area.
Bucolic isn't it?
After exploring the hills around town, I came back to town to watch the wrap up of the parade, have a nice Italian Soda, and ride around the industrial area.
Lumber yard just a couple blocks from downtown.
Even more fruit warehouses.
Found this nice little park alongside of Oosyoos Lake. There is a small stream that heads south from here, joining up with the river in a few miles.
Ducks attack!
Use to getting fed by the locals, they were disappointed with me.
The ducks were really quacking at me to feed them, but I didn’t have a thing to offer.
Couple big geese out there.
I’d been here in Oroville for a week by this time and I’d found another RV park just north of town on the main drag. Water and electric was just $7.50 per day so I move my rig there.
View of Oosyoos Lake from my RV.
The park was a little homely, but still worth it since I was saving almost $14 per day over the River Oaks RV park. This one didn’t have WiFi or cable either. Only thing I was giving up was having sewer right at my site, but thev do have a dump station here.
Off towards the State Park.
Looking south towards town.
And my rig parked in my spot. Not much to look at but it works.
I stayed here for a week soaking up the sunshine and the local flavor. But it came time to go. I had dallied here for so long because I didn’t want to run into snow during my trip through Canada, since my dash heater wasn’t working, it would have been uncomfortable. And I’m all about comfort. I didn’t need to worry though, it turned out I timed it perfectly, and only ran into a few places where there was spotty snow on the sides of the road. And the temperatures stayed up in the 50’s and 60’s except when peaking hills. So, I left Oroville on May 16th.
lol @ “ducks attack!”