Imagine my surprise when the trees opened up and I saw these! Wikipedia says this is "
the unfinished Satsop Nuclear Power Plant, a facility designed to house two 1250 megawatt pressurized water reactors. Construction of the Satsop Nuclear Power Plant began in 1977 and was halted in 1983 after a $961 million budget shortfall, leaving the plant 76% complete. The plant was maintained, ready for construction to be resumed, until 1994, when it was finally canceled. In 1995, a demolition plan was finalized that eventually turned the site into a business park."
no idea what this is, but Parker liked it and wanted me to take a photo.
foxglove, daisies, and red elderberry
lazy oxbow in the river, viewed from a logged-out ridge
the town of Raymond had metal sculptures and silhouettes all along the roadsides. There were loggers with huge crosscut saws, town scenes, wildlife (bald eagles, herons, coyote, mountain lion, deer), and native American scenes with canoes, baskets, etc.
Parker spotted this "bridge to nowhere." It's an old rail swing bridge, long abandoned.
we passed many saltwater sloughs and meadows
This is a view of almost the entire Astoria bridge. It's hard to get a four-mile bridge in one shot!
at last we sighted Manzanita from the cliffs above
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