Putzing around day

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Sunrise from the camper door

What a nice day we have had today. We are so easily entertained!

Once again breakfast was around 10 am at the picnic table between our rigs. The Frintstones have neighbors right close to them who happen to be from Meridian, but he is a talker. You can't poke your head outside without him starting up, so we kind of waited until they were busy before doing much outside.

After slowly getting around, and checking out some of the marine traffic report, we went out to the river overlook for a while. We watched for a while and saw a car carrier come in, and an interesting tug and barge heading out. Don't know for sure what it was carrying, but according to the marine traffic map, it was headed for Seattle.

car carrier

tug and barge

full of equipment for?

We then headed to the other side of Astoria to check out the Tongue point area. The fishing regs and reports all use Tongue Point as a reference point, but we didn't find anything interesting there. As we came back into town we stopped to see what Pier 39 was all about. Barney walked out and said it was kind of an interesting place.  Had a cannery museum, cafe, kayak rentals, etc.  We waited at the Trolley stop and listened to the Ark, Ark, Erk, Erk of the harbor seals! There were quite a number of them around, and they were loud.

Pier 30

Museum picture of cannery workers

museum picture

Coming back toward camp, we went out to the Petie I for lunch. You probaby won't believe this, but we thought it was too hot to stay out there. Mid 80's with the sun beating down and no wind or shade.

So we went back to the river overlook. There was a breeze, and it was cooler, and the river traffic is interesting. There was a small CoastGuard vessel pulling in a small boat, about the same as we saw last weekend. Then a larger CoastGuard boat came by pulling a larger fishing boat. Again, rescue at sea!

Pilot boat takes bar pilots out to incoming ships

small craft rescue at sea

Larger rescue boats in background

And towards evening there are a lot of small boats coming in from a day of fishing. Also, the pelicans come around to do their fishing. They are fun to watch splashing into the water. And they attract gulls who land beside them probably trying to get a free handout.  Barney says the pelicans have pet gulls.

Heading back to camp

camp sites in the RV park

Then when the breeze started to cool down, we came back to the camp site to settle in. We really had a nice day, hope you did too.