Pat's new kite from the International World Kite Museum near Cape Disappointment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cape Disappointment Light House from Lewis and Clark Interpretative Center

 

 

I have learned that I should carry my phone with me because it is easier to load photos from the phone.  Pat is taking photos but isn't putting them up on the blogg.  I will try to get him going because he has better photos of the beach.  It is  great place, bike paths called the Discovery Trail.  A little rain so we went to the Interpretative Center -just fascinating how they crossed the country and made it to the Pacific.  I think our going across country was easier than theirs(but Pat may disagree on some of the Hwy 2 and 101 turns. The beach is just wondrous with huge waves and basalt outcroppings.  It is too cold to swim, but of course the kids on the beach are jumping into the waves, they must be part seal. As soon as we go to the coast the warning signs changed from "watch out for bears" to "stay away from the seals or sea lions." Cape Disappointment was named so because it is at the head of the Columbia River and looks like a bay instead of the mouth of a river so explorers who found the area from the ocean thought it wasn't a way to get inland.  Explorers who came by way of the Columbia River were disappointed they had to go miles and miles further to find the ocean. On to Oregon!