Space Grant Trip to Ft. Canby State Park

Location of Ft. Canby

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Christy, Nikki, and Greg climb on the logs.

Looking south down the beach across the huge swath of logs

This beach has a stick for every size person. Melissa and unknown boy.

The pole (seen in previous image) erected on top of the logs - we should have had a flag to raise.

The rock face bordering the camground to the north is a lot of fun to climb and there are great views to be had at the top. A steep unmaintained also leads to the top. Nikki is almost a speck standing on the ridge.

The trail on the ridge at the top.

Lots of logs lay drying in a basin to the northwest of the campground. Ft. Canby is on the north side of the Columbia river's mouth, most of these logs escaped frow sawmills and shipping centers just up river.

More logs. The lighthouse featured in a later picture is on top of coastal rocks just north of the logs seen here. A trail leads up and around the hillside from the campground to the lighthouse, but took the easy route and drove.

Looking back down at the campground from roughly where Nikki is in the picture of the rock face.

Just to the right of the previous frame: the campground, beach, and trail along the ridge. Our van is the red one to the right of the vee in the road. We camped just behind the trees seen just behind the van.

Alan's shadow on a rock face just before he came down off the ridge. This is looking roughtly east.

The mouth of the Columbia River and an obscured view of the lighthouse to the south of Ft. Canby. The trail to this lighthouse was closed when we were there. The image was taken outside the visitors center and memorial next to the remains of one of the large gun emplacements.

Back to the ridge trail north of the campgrand. This is a fairly poor wide angle image of the campground and beach.

The coast at sunset as seen from the northern lighthouse.

Christy, Nikki, and Melissa in front of the lighthouse.

Melissa, Christy, Nikki, and Greg look out at the sunset from the cliffs in front of the lighthouse.

Nikki, Greg, and the setting sun.

Christy at sunset in front of the lighthouse. The image is looking north.