Along the Columbia.

We found this little, tiny, RV park, nestled between the Columbia River and the highway. We pulled in and got out to stretch our legs and use the facilities, which were somewhat primitive, but freshly cleaned. I took these pictures, we walked around a bit and then back in the car and on our way again!


Barges being pushed down the river by a tugboat.


The day kept alternating between misty and clear with a gentle rain for much of it.


There are tent sites to the right of the walkway in this picture. Maybe next time we will take a walk down that walkway and see where it goes.


Beautiful, even with the gray weather!


Maybe the walkway ends at this beach. It looks like a nice little beach.


I think that is a house over on the right. Nice place to live.


Panoramic view looking across the river to the other side.

Yesterday down at Port of Tacoma

It was a gray day yesterday, with rain and dark clouds, but I took some pictures anyway, while waiting around at the Port's medical clinic. It is a very noisy place, with semi-trucks whizzing by constantly and the cranes lifting and dropping containers. It was interesting to me that, as the trucks rolled by me, the sidewalk actually bounced. It felt like mini-earthquakes.

There is a place next to the clinic that grinds up log leftovers into beauty bark. It smelled really nice. It was chilly enough that the bark was steaming as it came out of the grinder shack and onto the conveyor belts.

Conveyor belt delivering ground bark to the pile.

The steam coming off the bark.

A little shack behind the grinder shack.

The container cranes that take the containers off the ships and also put them on the ships.

The truck that lifts the containers onto and off from the semi-trailer beds.

I love to watch these things work. I miss working at the boat.

Another view of the cranes. I love these things.

I need to find out what these are because I want some. They are growing on a bush.

Again.

A rhododendron at the clinic.