The Good News: My inventory is strong with quality product, ie., Lot 3 in the waterfront community of Whiskey Jack Circle is back on the market! The Bad News: The pending sale for Lot 3 Whiskey Jack Circle fell through. It’s back on the market. The Best News: The new price of $397,700 leads the market for Lake Pend Oreille waterfront close to Sandpoint, Idaho! Not only is Lot 3 back on the market, but the American Coots are back in Kootenai Bay! These guys invade our lake every Fall with a vengeance as tens of thousands of coots gather together to prepare for their migration south. Since Lake Pend Oreille rarely freezes over, the coots have been known to hang around well into Winter. I’ve never eaten a coot, but I hear coots are a mainstay in Cajun gumbo. (Note the swarming coots in the... 10/10/2011

                                                   Owning waterfront in Whiskey Jack Circle (Lot 3, specifically) can be both a Blessing & a Curse.  Let’s count the “Blessings” first: 1)    Whiskey Jack Circle rests on the shores of Kootenai Bay on Lake Pend Oreille in Sandpoint, Idaho 2)    Lake Pend Oreille is the 11th largest fresh water lake (by volume) in the world 3)    Kootenai Bay sits 3 miles across from the twinkling evening lights of Sandpoint 4)    Kootenai Bay is one of the warmest bays in the lake allowing for an extended swimming season 5)    Lot 3 has 115 feet of pristine lake frontage 6)    Lot 3 is a large, gentle sloping lot (.62 acres) which allows for a natural walk-out level just above the shoreline 7)    A permanent pier dock with trex decking has already been ins... 03/18/2011

I just couldn't pass up this WORDLESS WEDNESDAY post.  I arrived back in "utopia" (Sandpoint, Idaho) this morning after a two week absence while visiting friends and family in Minnesota.  It was astounding to come back to an explosion of wild lupine on our side hill.  It kind of put an exclamation mark on why I missed this place so badly.  (Nothing against Minnesota...it just isn't North Idaho).   06/16/2010

WHISKEY JACK CIRCLE, SANDPOINT, IDAHO – A WATERFRONT COMMUNITY Most of us want to be a integral part of everything around us.  Not only a member of a community, but a member of the natural order of things.  When living in a town like Sandpoint, it seems to me that to be removed from the energy of the town itself, is a little defeating.  …and yet, when one chooses to live in the beauty of North Idaho, there is also that sense that we need to remove ourselves from the trappings of a modern society and return to the natural order…conversing with nature.   WHISKEY JACK CIRCLE somehow addresses many of these issues.  Located on the shores of Kootenai Bay, Whiskey Jack Circle integrates itself with the insurmountable beauty of Lake Pend Oreille while watching the twinkling lights of Sandpoint... 03/30/2010