We spent the morning exploring the Lewis and Clark interpretive centre at Fort Clatsop.  Their journey started in mid 1804 and finished in 1806. The goal was to find a water transportation route following the Missouri river to the west coast to open trade between east and west. They encountered numerous obstacles such as disease, Indians, rapids, falls, Sandbanks and Rocky Mountains.

At Fort Stevens we learned about clams. Low tide is the time to go. Look for indents in the sand. That’s the clam burrowing deeper. There are special scoops you can use to dig after the clam but then you have to stick your hand in after it. Be careful, their shells are razor sharp. 

Our bike ride along Cape disappointment allowed us to see the grasslands and with a surprising number of evergreens. I don’t know who was more scared when Karen saw a snake on the narrow path. The snake jumped twice as she rode by.   Karen almost landed in the grass. We rode our bikes out to one of the lighthouses.  The mouth of the Columbia River is nicknamed the graveyard of the Pacific due to the number of shipwrecks caused when the drifting sand continuously changed where the safe channel passage was.