Thursday
Part of the beauty of the Columbia Gorge area is that it is so green, with a huge variety of plants and trees. It is classified as Temperate Rain Forest. So it is hardly sur[rising that it rains quite often. We have been fortunate so far, but today it rained. Not despeartely bad, but fairly continuous. We decided that it was more a day for inside things, so we visited the nearby Bonneville Dam. This was very interesting and mostly dry. We saw lots of water gushing through water barriers and the turbines that are used to generate power. Very big. We also were able to access underwter viewing windows of the fish ladders. While we were there we saw an awful lot of salmon type fish (Chinooks I think) come swimming through. There is a small room where some people are employed to count the varieties of fish as they swim past. I thought the Fish COunter would be selling salmon, but no they just counted it!
A diversion to Cascade Locks for a cup of tea and a fine view of the Bridge of The Gods, followed by a look at the Horsetail Falls after rain had fallen meant that we had a full day, and fun, even in the wet.
While cooking tea Sally spotted a hummingbird on our feeder. This one is bridght orange and red. It is a Rufous Hummingbird, the smallest found in this country. The pics I have are ppor as the light was not good, maybe tomorrow will be better.
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