The sun came out, finally.

Sunset at Cape Disappointment, the mouth of the Columbia River, south of Long Beach, Saturday evening.


Still windy enough for kites, of course.

Before that, we visited Fort Columbia. It's on US 101, just before you get to the bridge to Oregon.

Pre-WWI battery that never was used, thankfully. They started upgrading it in WWII, but stopped before they installed the guns.

In 1993, the parks department shipped a pair of guns (of the WWII intended variety) over from Newfoundland.


Over the bridge in Astoria, it was a bit cloudy and rainy.

But we went to the top of the Astoria Column anyway.


The clouds lifted eventually so we could see across the river to Washington, but barely.

And here's one more of my beautiful wife, watching the sunset at Cape Disappointment.


The rest of Saturday's photos can be seen on flickr. This is but a small sampling. Trust me.