June 21-22, 2011 – Northern Oregon Coast Continued
Today is the first day of summer and our second beautiful sunny day in a row – Yeah! The sun shone all day today and it got into the mid 60’s. We visited Fort Clatsop which is part of the Lewis and Clark National and State Historical Park. The Historical Park consists of 12 individual areas around the mouth of the Columbia River and 40 miles along the Pacific Coast that mark the success of key parts of the Corps of Discovery’s mission. Fort Clatsop is where Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1805-06 at the end of their 4,000-mile trek across the newly acquired Louisiana Territory. There is a replica of Fort Clatsop as it looked that winter. We watched a living history program on old muskets. They described how the musket worked and then fired one. We also took a short nature hike with a ranger who talked about the plants and trees in the area. On the way back to our camp site for lunch we saw a bear in the campground a...
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