Fort Clatsop
We have been cruising on the Columbia and Snake Rivers for several days. We have seen the sunrise over the bare hills of eastern Oregon. We have gone by jetboat up the dark-walled gorge of the Snake River in Hell’s Canyon. We have traveled by Zodiac boats and kayaks on the quiet waters of the Palouse River. We have voyaged through the magnificent Columbia Gorge.
Today in a fitting conclusion to traveling “In the Wake of Lewis and Clark” we are at Fort Clatsop near the mouth of the Columbia River, where the Corps of Discovery spent the winter of 1805-06. Wisps of fog filter through the spruce trees. We listen to the National Park Service historian tell us of the difficulties and hardships endured by them as they waited for spring to come so that they could return the many miles to their homes back east. We who travel in their wake nearly two hundred years later have had neither hardships nor difficulties, since we have been in the comfort of the Sea Bird. Still, we begin to think of our return journeys, since this adventure is drawing to a close.The feeling of a link with them, across the many years, is stronger for our having had this experience.
We have been cruising on the Columbia and Snake Rivers for several days. We have seen the sunrise over the bare hills of eastern Oregon. We have gone by jetboat up the dark-walled gorge of the Snake River in Hell’s Canyon. We have traveled by Zodiac boats and kayaks on the quiet waters of the Palouse River. We have voyaged through the magnificent Columbia Gorge.
Today in a fitting conclusion to traveling “In the Wake of Lewis and Clark” we are at Fort Clatsop near the mouth of the Columbia River, where the Corps of Discovery spent the winter of 1805-06. Wisps of fog filter through the spruce trees. We listen to the National Park Service historian tell us of the difficulties and hardships endured by them as they waited for spring to come so that they could return the many miles to their homes back east. We who travel in their wake nearly two hundred years later have had neither hardships nor difficulties, since we have been in the comfort of the Sea Bird. Still, we begin to think of our return journeys, since this adventure is drawing to a close.The feeling of a link with them, across the many years, is stronger for our having had this experience.
