Fort Clatsop

This is located in the Lewis and Clark National Historic Park and just south of Astoria, Oregon. We watched a 20 minute video about the local Indians and wildlife.  We took a tour of the grounds and observed the rebuilt fort with living quarters where they lived.  The original one burnt down some years ago.  On the tour, we observed several rangers in period attire and discussed how life was back then.  One girl exhibited how to load and shoot a period rifle, one young fellow was busy carving out a small 18 inch boat out of wood, and we finished the tour with a 1 mile walk through the forest to the river where they moored their boats.  I can now identify an ash tree which is good as I am supposedly allergic to them and the other plant which peaked my interest was horse hair, which they used for cleaning things as it is abrasive.  Included here is a replica of their boats.  There is a fee for the tours, but with our America the Beautiful Senior pass it was free.