The area around Twin Falls, ID is awesome.  Today, (Thursday) we decided not to play golf because of possible thunderstorms.  (Which turned out to be a good decision.)  We did sight-seeing instead.  First, we went to one of the falls in the area, Shoshone Falls.  We had never heard of it, but it is called “the Niagara Falls of the west.”  From this picture, you can see why:

We were told that the amount of water diminishes as spring and summer arrive because the water is diverted to water the fields in the area.  Unlike Niagara, there is no commercialization in the area.  The land on the south side was given to the area as a park, and the land on the north side has private homes.  There is, as you might imagine, a  power plant.  Further up the river there is another large waterfall with a power plant beside it. There used to be two falls, thus the city got its name from the two falls side by side.

After seeing these falls, we took a little tour south of town to see a “balanced rock”.  It’s strange—we were driving though farm lands, dairies, feed lots, fairly flat land.  All of a sudden we were taken down into a section of hills with rocky sides.  At the bottom was a state park with a stream on one side and a rock wall on the other.

Then we drove on to that balanced rock.  It looks like it could fall any minute.

As we drove back to Twin Falls, the rain started to fall and the wind picked up.  The wind was really strong and interfered with any sight-seeing by the canyon that held the golf course I mentioned yesterday,  We found out that there are actually two golf courses.  The course we intend to play is on the south side of the river (a municipal course).  The one on the north side is a private, exclusive course.