Eagle Rock

Day 173 / Year 2
10.20.11
I was in a meeting recently with a gentleman from Venezuela and a few others. Apparently none of them were from Idaho Falls...
Somehow the conversation turned to the name "Idaho Falls" and someone commented on how lucky it was that there were "falls" here. I told them that the "falls" were man made and none of them knew that. I then told them that Idaho Falls was originally called "Eagle Rock". They asked why it was called Eagle Rock and I didn't know, so they started making jokes about how it was lucky someone didn't see a rock that looked like a cow or our town would have been "Cow Rock". After the meeting I decided I should find out why Idaho Falls was originally called Eagle Rock - and this is what I learned.
Our town became Eagle Rock in 1866. The name was derived from an isolated basalt island in the Snake River about 7 miles upstream that was, at the time, the nesting site for at least 20 Eagles.
So, I set out to find this island, Eagle Rock and take its picture.
So...here it is.