AlanLichty
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We got a dry day yesterday so I wandered down to a spot along the Columbia River almost due west of where I live and is frequently featured in my posts of sunset images. This is a two panel panorama stitch looking north above the main channel of the river. I am restricted from flying more than 400' above ground level in an unmanned aircraft so the view is a bit limited for a really good view of the wetlands area when a couple thousand feet would be more suitable. The best aerial views I have seen were from the window of airline flights departing the Portland airport during westward takeoffs.
Suavie Island is basically a fairly large scale sandbar between a channel of the Willamette and the Columbia that's been around for several thousand years. It was occupied by groups of the Chinook tribes that called themselves the Multnomah according to the journals of Lewis and Clark. The lake to the left of the Columbia channel is called Sturgeon Lake. The island can and does get flooded during very high water flood events on the Columbia such as the floods in 1996. I have seen signs along the roads on Suave Island with markers showing where the water level reached during those floods a couple of years before I moved up here. Most of the island was under about 7 feet of water.
C&C always welcome.
Suavie Island is basically a fairly large scale sandbar between a channel of the Willamette and the Columbia that's been around for several thousand years. It was occupied by groups of the Chinook tribes that called themselves the Multnomah according to the journals of Lewis and Clark. The lake to the left of the Columbia channel is called Sturgeon Lake. The island can and does get flooded during very high water flood events on the Columbia such as the floods in 1996. I have seen signs along the roads on Suave Island with markers showing where the water level reached during those floods a couple of years before I moved up here. Most of the island was under about 7 feet of water.
C&C always welcome.
