The destination for the huge dam pumps is Grand Coulee (more geology – an enormously wide flat-bottomed channel blasted through ancient basalt during the great ice age floods) to create Banks Lake reservoir that starts just above the dam.  We head for Steamboat Rock State Park just a few miles down the Banks Lake shore.  A mammoth basalt mesa has been partially submerged and does indeed remind one of a steamboat.  It is 80F by 10AM so we walk to the base of the cliff but opt not to clamber on up.  Local wildlife is feeling the heat too.  A doe is quietly munching in the shade of a scrub tree.  She hardly seems to notice us.  On our return I spot her fawn.  The little fellow is safely tucked away in the cool shade of a huge boulder.  He watches but doesn’t move a muscle.