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Posts Tagged ‘Sauvie Island’
Recent hikes
I’ve been a bad blogger lately … I’ve been busy, though, with travels and shooting a bunch of exciting things that I can’t share with you yet. But here are some photos I can share, from a pair of hikes Perrie and I took recently. The first, a month ago today, was at the Wapato [...]
Warrior Rock Lighthouse
A couple of weeks ago, it was such a nice sunny day Perrie and I abandoned the backup of housework and homework and headed out to Sauvie Island for walk and some geocaching. It was a pretty arbitrary choice, but it turned out to be perfect. After driving to the very end of the road [...]
Sauvie Island
My parents paid a visit over the weekend, so Monday I took them out to Sauvie Island, just north of Portland. After a short hike and some geocaching around Virginia Lake (which is really more of a swamp), I put them to work picking berries at Kruger’s Farm. The strawberries were small and sparse, but [...]
Sunshine on Sauvie Island
A couple of weeks ago Perrie and I decided to go for a drive/walk on Sauvie Island. After crossing the new Sauvie Island bridge, instead of heading right (east) towards the pumpkin farm, we headed north along the island’s long west side (beside Multnomah Channel). Near the north, marshy end of the island we got [...]
A new bridge for Sauvie Island
The span for the new Sauvie Island Bridge sits jacked up on a barge at Terminal 2 in Portland, about eight miles upstream of its destination. The 1600-ton structure will replace the existing bridge that was built in 1950. According to Multnomah County, that bridge “is not adequate to meet the current needs of the [...]