Toured Astoria and surrounding area today. Started at the Maritime Museum that had a very complete history of Maritime traffic, Coast Guard Training and Rescues as well as fishing, canning and the WW ll effort at catching and harvesting shark livers to provide GI’s with Vitamin A tablets. Then went to the Astoria Column on Coxcomb Hill which is 600 feet above Astoria looking over the whole area the 125 foot high column has great scenes of Astoria history starting in 1792 vwith Capt. Robert Gray’s visit to the area. You can climb the 126 steps to the top of the tower but since Tucker couldn’t go Nancy & I declined.
Had Lunch at the Rogue Brewery on the old cannery wharf. At one time Astoria was the salmon canning capital of the world (Bumble Bee had a huge operation here). After lunch walked down the Riverfront Walk and looked at the 4.1 mile long Astoria – Megler Bridge going from Astoria across the Columbia River into Washington State. It is the longest continuous truss bridge in North America.
We then went to Fort Clatsop where Lewis & CLark had arrived at the Pacific in late 1805 and built the fort to winter here before returning East in April of 1806. Went back to towards the RV but stopped at Fort Stevens State Park to look at the beach and the remains of a 1907 shipwreck. Tucker got his first taste of the Pacific and we promised to bring him back for a swim.
