I took this picture of our boat the day before our cruise,
when the sun was shinning.
To learn about the Bridge of the Gods click here.
Entering the lock at Bonneville Dam.
It's open and waiting for us.
Almost in.
In and secured.
It takes 12 minutes for the water to flow out of the lock.
Lower gates opening and the swing bridge is almost all the way back.
And away we go down river.
The water flowing from the lower concrete pipe is the lower end
of the fish ladder on the Washington side.
The sprinklers are to create camouflage for the fish.
Before the sprinklers were installed birds would hang around
and grab the fish as they came out the pipe.
Upper Multnomah Falls drops 542 feet down to the lower falls
which you can't see in this picture.
To learn about the falls click here.
I'm adding two pictures of the falls that I took a few days before.
Here we are back in the lock, going up. These are the upper gates.
When the lock is full of water the bottom of our boat will be
20 feet higher than the top of the solid part of the gate,
which won't move when the gates open.
We'll rise a total of 60 feet.
All most open.
If you look closely at the lower right corner of the blue roof on the left,
there's a red light. We're waiting for the green light to exit the lock.
Ok, that wraps up our boat trip down and back up the Columbia River in Oregon. After leaving that area we headed over towards theYakama Washington area spending several days without internet. Now we're in the Port Angeles Washington area. More about that in the next post.
Missie in our new front yard.
