Here at Fort Stevens we had a day to explore the area and see some wildlife. There are a zillion chipmunks. They are so busy eating and storing pinecones for winter that they hardly notice me. I saw a whole family of deer on my early morning walk and I might have even gotten closer but for the two loud mouth French bulldogs that scared them off. In the late morning we drove past a mama elk and her baby munching on the grass in front of the ranger station. Last night we say a whole herd of them on the way back from dinner. Those guys are twice as tall as a Great Dane. We kept our distance when we took this picture.
Later today we had a nice visit from Doreen and Jerry and their friend Candy. Doreen brought us treats from Trader Joe’s which we can’t get here.
In the late afternoon my humans explored the park. Fort Steven’s has a lot of history including that of being a military installation that guarded the mouth of the Columbia River since the civil war. It is the site of the only attack on a military installation in the United States by a foreign energy was ship since the war of 1812. In 1942 a Japanese submarine surfaced off Fort Steven’s and fired 17 shells from her deck gun. This is a picture of the Fort.
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