4/20/15 - Historic Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Cascade Locks, OR

Today we began our travels by stopping at the Bonneville Lock & Dam. What a fantastic place. 

It was amazing to see how much water was passing through the locks. 

This is a guard station that was used during the war to ensure that no infiltrators would go in & try to blow up the dam. 

Actually, when we were going into the dam a guard stopped us & asked us if we had guns & or weapons of any kind. He even look through the back window of the Jeep to see if we had anything.

Explaination of the guard stand. 

Inside of the visitors center they had an area where we could sit in front these glass windows to the fish ladders that they have there. There is a women who actually sits in front of these windows each day & counts how many fish swim up stream & keeps count of the number of fish per day. 

They told us that there were over  ten thousand fish yesterday alone. 

These are the fish ladders looking down from the observation level. 

Carp up on the observation level with the fish ladders below & the 

Cascade Mountains in the background.

Me too! 😊

We went to the Fish Hatchery where Carp was feeding the Sockeye Salmon. 

Ok now our waterfall adventure begins. 

The first waterfall we came upon was the Horsetail Falls. 

Along our way we saw this open tunnel in the side if the mountain where they made it just for walkers to get around the narrow road. 

Heading over to our next waterfall this was this bridge over a creek. It was so peacefull. 

This was our second waterfall. The Multnomag Falls is King. It is the tallest waterfull in Oregon.  It is 620 feet. Only three falls in the nation are taller, but none are as majestic as Multnomah Falls. 

See the bridge - Carp & I climbed up the side of the mountain to this bridge. It was awesome. See next pictures. 

A nice lady took our picture up on the bridge. Good exercise. 

This is a picture of the falls through the opening of the bridge while we were up there. 

Mountain alongside the waterfall. 

Carp up on the bridge at this fantastic waterfall. 

Me too. It was cold up there but beautiful. 

This waterfall was quite different from the previous ones. This one was not as large & it was flowing over rocks as it came down the mountain

Another view of this waterfall. 

Latourell Falls. This was a state park.  When we came upon this waterfall we thought we would only see it from a distance & not see the end of it, however we were mistaken. 

We hiked down this narrow walkway going downhill as we progressed & to our surprise we saw the falls in its entirety. 

This was the first viewing of this waterfall. 

As we got closer,we could see the falls with the runof looking like a creek...

It was magnificent. We could feel the splash from the waterfall hitting the water at the bottom. So awesome!!! 

Carp in his glory. 

So awesome!

Two ladies came along & offered to take our picture & we reciprocated. 

At the top of the mountain towards the end if our drive down Rt. 30 we came upon the Vistor House.  Unfortunately it had just closed.  

This Vistor House overlooks the Columbia River. See the following pictures. 

Overlooking the Columbua River. 

Hope you enjoyed our perfect day. Such a Beautiful country we live in!  

Here is the backdrop of our camping space in Cascade Locks, Oregon. 

This is the same mountain as the previous picture from a different view.