OBSERVATIONS:
Up until now the view from my private balcony has been dominated by volcanic effluvia grass land and riverside bushes sticking up from underwater. But this morning we took a 50 minute bus ride to the Bonneville dam and it was a totally different ecology, with towering trees and lush woods.
Both sides of the River are bordered with busy Interstate Highways and busy railroad tracks. (The Washington side is Burlington Northern Santa Fe with Union Pacific on the Oregon side, BNSF is the busiest by far with trains trains every half hour or so. One string of at least 120 loaded coal cars pulled by four locomotives with three more in the middle and two on the tail approximately 38,000 horsepower all told and running 60 to 70 mph.) followed shortly thereafter by a fas container train of ~75 cars, going 70 only because that is the maximum the locomotives are geared for. Unfortunately we were on in Oregon and the trains in Washington too far away to get a good picture. I realize probably no one else is interested in that, but I am a rail fan.
Multnomah Falls
The pictures speak for themselves (I am just sorry the movies are not uploading properly — yet!)
Truely a beautiful place
The following pictures of the salsa were taken as we sailed by on the river
Bonneville Dam
As a child growing up I often saw pictures of the famous Bonneville Dam — today I not only saw the dam thing (pun intended) I was “locked” through it right after dinner! An interesting feat of ninety year old engineering. It was expanded some 40 years later but the 1930’s origin is still evident.
Fish Hatchery
The day’s excursion ended with a visit to the fish hatchery, where we saw an eighty year old ten foot long five hundred pound sturgeon.
Westward, ever westward into the sunset
BONNIEVILLE AT NIGHT FROM THE SHIP
The following images may look as if they were taken at dusk but it was a dark night using the Lowlight Plus mode in ProCamera on an IPhone 8 Pro and much of the detail such as the grid of electrical wiring on top of the power house was invisible to the naked eye.
