Re: [Paddlewise] Lower Columbia River Trip

On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Harvey Golden <harveydgolden_at_yahoo.com>wrote:

> Dear All, Here's a brief photo-essay of my recent trip from the Hawthorne
> Bridge to the Columbia River Maritime Museum (Portland-to-Astoria; ~100.5
> miles).  Nice to have gotten back in the saddle again.  Still 300 miles of
> the
> river to see . . .
> . http://www.traditionalkayaks.com/travelsandadventures/columbia2009.html
> All the best, Harvey Golden
>

Harvey.... your adventures are always interesting and unique. Including the
postscripts.

The "Col." in that ship's name is probably an abbreviation for "Colonia"
which is like a village or town or settlement. But "Colonel" makes a better
story.

I am starting to think that maybe high cockpit coamings might be the wave of
the future since you seem to have been in on these things long before they
finally take place. My problem with single blade paddles is that I can't
bend both knees and so I have to kayak sitting flat on my butt.

My mother was born and raised in Portland and mentioned Burnside a lot. They
lived well out on that peninsula (she went to "Commerce" High School). Her
house still stood in the 1960s but probably not any more. I heard a lot of
stories about Sauvie's Island (which I thought was Sofie's Island 'til I
sailed past it on a Chevron Tanker and checked the charts) where she and her
brothers had many rowboat adventures. Apparently the 1920s were a perfect
time to be a kid in Portland, OR.

You can see the Warrior Rock light from the original site on Bachelor Slough
of the Chinook village of Cathlapotle where Lewis and Clark visited. Between
Sauvie's Island and Cathlapotle there were probably thousands of people
living and working in that area. Today there are only old log booming
grounds pilings and Warrior Rock to remind us of civilization. It was more
"civalized" 200 years ago!

Many thanks for the post.


Best regards,
Craig Jungers
Moses Lake, WA
www.nwkayaking.net
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