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rozoneill: Looks like it's going to a wet visit to the ruins of Fort Stevens
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rozoneill: Let's go explore the battery ruins
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rozoneill: These rooms were where ammunition was kept
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rozoneill: Stairway to the gun emplacements
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rozoneill: Some magazine room, there were no magazines there at all
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rozoneill: Replica of the guns used to protect the Columbia River during WWII
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rozoneill: Unintended irony
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rozoneill: Hard to make out the Columbia River out there in the gray
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rozoneill: On a rainy exploration on top of the gun batteries
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rozoneill: A gun mount gets repurposed as a garden
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rozoneill: Mothers tell their children "Behave, or I'll send you to Battery 245!"
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rozoneill: No one ever gets in (or out!) of Battery 245
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rozoneill: The low tide's left Jetty Lagoon and Swash Lake somewhat drained
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rozoneill: This river is guarded by hikers with attitude...because it's raining
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rozoneill: The ruins of the gun batteries on a rainy afternoon
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rozoneill: We grabbed the Jetty Trail for a short hike across the sodden countryside
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rozoneill: It may not have been exactly "Singing in the Rain" but it was fun
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rozoneill: The grounds were dotted with the ruins of barracks
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rozoneill: These guns are replicas for us to imagine what it was like long ago
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rozoneill: This is what's left of the Civil War era Fort Stevens
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rozoneill: After the Civil War, this part of Fort Stevens became a parade ground
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rozoneill: We make our exit back into the real world
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rozoneill: This was the observation station for the gun batteries
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rozoneill: Columbines were blooming at the visitor center, and I had to answer the call
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rozoneill: Columbines in the garden
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rozoneill: So many different color combinations
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rozoneill: Columbine of the yellow persuasion
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rozoneill: A legume of some sort does a fine job of harvesting rain from the air
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rozoneill: Large-flowered columbine hybrid
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rozoneill: A garden shrub collects rainwater for additional sustenance