As we were driving down the Oregon coast line on the 1st of August, my adventuresome auntie told her adventuresome daughter, my cousin, who was driving, "Follow that rock!" As you can see, it was only one huge rock on the truck.
Jetty repair was being constructed with the massive boulders being placed along the old one on the Pacific Coast where the Columbia River unloads its fresh water into the Ocean and opens its arms to the incoming tides..
An overlook provided a magnificent view. This is and has been historically a very dangerous place for sailors and their ships. I thought about Lewis and Clark, who ended up on the Washington side of the Columbia that long ago late fall. How would they get to the other side to the south where they would build Fort Clatsop; here they would spend a damp, cold miserable winter before going back to St. Louis. Too bad Jefferson just could not appreciate the magnitude of what they had done.
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