Last Adventures in Washington
Statue of Clark of Lewis and Clark off the bike trail near Cape Disappointment.  The bike trail was FUN!FUN! We did 14 miles and it was like the Grand Prix Raceway and you could stop and walk the beach or look at whale skeletons.  We just loved this area except for no Hotspotting.
One buffalo would feed all of Lewis and Clark's 33 discovery trail explorers, but by the time they got to the Pacific Ocean all food stores were almost gone and they traded for blubber and dried fish.  The men spent days and days on the beach making salt for the trip home.  They gave the Natives Fort Clatsop(Oregon side) to the Clatsop Indians but stole a canoe to get home.  The descendents of Clark made retribution 8 generations later.  Sacagawea and her babe who was later adopted by Clark with Clark's slave were the only people not paid at the end by the US govt. for their great contributions in land and money.  Lewis felt he never accomplished anything in his life and finally died by his own hand. The carpenter Gass who helped build all the forts they over wintered in and canoes wrote more in his journal than Lewis even though he had little education (19 days of schooling) published first and made the most money off the story. Fascinating history.
Saturday we stopped at a Safeway in Astoria to get much needed groceries and were so glad we waited until Oregon because right near the store were sea lions-hundreds.  They were following the salmon up the Columbia River.

Sea Lions near Safeway Grocery Store in Astoria Oregon