I found a place to get onto the shore to look for Kyron Horman and get some shots like this.
It's nearly berry season here, so I'll be having berries for breakfast quite soon.
On our fourth morning we actually awoke to a partly clear sky. So beautiful.
We made some water today. Gilbert River is very nasty stuff, as there is no inflow in to the lake, all the water does is run out until low tide, then run back upriver until high tide. This oscillation simply sloshes the same dirty water back and forth across the muddy riverbed. However it's no match for my watermaker. Here are three glasses, on the left, raw Gilbert River water. In the middle is the filtered "brine" from the Reverse Osmosis membrane, basically the water the RO membrane rejected. And on the right is the fresh water from the "good" side of the RO membrane. Quite a difference.
Another shot of the same. The good water measures 3ppm in Total Disolved Solids making it 99.9997% pure.
Out for a putt in the dinghy and came across this guy. He was a little upset with me I guess, so he didn't give me his best pose, instead I got him doing a hard bank over my head.
Speaking of eagles, I finally got video of a Golden Eagle who has been haunting us lately. I put it to a tune my oldest daughter wrote and recorded years ago, called Will's Song.
This picture is actually a few days old, but it took us a few days to get a close-up look at these birds to decided that, yes, in fact these are pelicans! I've never seen pelicans in this area before, but it's possible these creatures stay confined to Sturgeon Lake. Certainly we've never seen them around Caterpillar Island, Vancouver Lake or even the swampy and shallow Shillapoo Lake.
I took a stroll in the forest. Here I got a shot of the river back towards the first breach to Sturgeon Lake.
Here is a nice shot of the forest floor.
Look up, beautiful!
Full moon rise from Deadman's Curve.
I took a hike through the woods inside the bend of Deadman's Curve. Here is a nice shot of Great Ambition sitting on anchor.
A shot to the Northeast looking across Gilbert River, across the levee to Sturgeon Lake.
A shot from the second breach across Malarky Lake looking to the Southwest.
The shoreline of Malarky Lake as seen from the forest.
With bills stacking up in the mailbox back home it's time to start heading back, in slow spurts. Here we are at Coon Island in our favorite spot. Of course, we can have any spot we want, there's not a soul here on a Monday.
Caught a floatplane flying directly overhead while at Coon Island. WOW!
Caught the incoming tide to make our way back home via Multnomah Channel. Here is a nice glassy shot of the old girl. This shot shows why living on land is just not all that inspiring.
As we cruised up Multnomah Channel we saw the very same floatplane we saw fly over the sitting on its float. In the photo above you can see it just to the left of center. You can't leave these things sitting in the water, the pontoons get covered in growths and slows the plane down.
