Wednesday, August 08, 2007
The first thing this morning we headed to Astoria Twilight Creek Eagle Sanctuary looking for eagles. We saw cormorants, gulls, ducks, geese and no eagles, I was disappointed. We returned to Astoria and went to the Columbia River Maritime Museum. The museum is filled with Coast Guard history, nautical artifacts and many stories of the hazards ships encountered during stormy and dangerous weather along the coast between Washington and Oregon. We also visited the Columbia, a lightship that once guided ships to safety at the mouth of the Columbia River.
We rode the Astoria Riverfront Trolley, the Old 300, it is a 1913 refurbished streetcar that travels along the waterfront. After the waterfront tour we went to the Astoria Column, climbed the 164 steps and took a few pictures of the area.