Monday, July 20, 2009

Kathy, Peter, Kevin, Sarah and I went for a paddle Sunday morning. Somehow I ended up in the center of the canoe, in a comfortable chair, and without a paddle...it worked out well I'd say. I was able to take plenty of pictures. Below is where we put our boats in, at Sellwood Park in Portland. It was a nice little dog-friendly park.These pictures are a little out of order, but below is the Ross Island Bridge. For our little escapade we paddled around Ross Island... which is a little over a 5 mile paddle.Paddling around the Island we noticed something tied to shore and couldn't tell what it was until we got closer...

We saw a lot of birds along the paddle, below is a goose family. I think the goslings look like velociraptors!Here are some floating homes we saw.Here's a Great Blue Heron we saw:Here are a couple of mergansers:Here's a bunch of people and their dogs at the park:Here's a view of the river looking from the Sellwood Bridge, we paddled away from the bridge (or up as it appears in this picture):Here's a view from the Ross Island Bridge of the tip of Ross Island: