{"id":760,"date":"2006-07-07T20:07:17","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T20:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wordpress\/?p=760"},"modified":"2006-07-07T20:07:17","modified_gmt":"2006-07-07T20:07:17","slug":"back-from-skamokawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=760","title":{"rendered":"back from skamokawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re back from our short camping\/boating adventure! We headed down the Columbia River on the Washington side and put the boat in at <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualguidebooks.com\/Washington\/OlympicPeninsula\/NorthShoreColumbia\/CathlametDowntown.html\">Cathlamet<\/a>, the second oldest town in the state (according to a brochure in the Hai-Ying Chinese Restaurant). Here&#8217;s the marina where we stayed the first night. You can barely see our boat there.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/cathlamet marina.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cathlamet marina.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/cathlamet marina-thumb.JPG\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"3\" \/><\/a><\/center>Clean showers &#038; clean bathrooms!<br \/>\nThe following day we sailed and motored down to Skamokawa. The weather was kind of crazy and cold, and it even rained on us. Here&#8217;s the town of Cathlamet from the water:<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/cathlamet from water.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cathlamet from water.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/cathlamet from water-thumb.JPG\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"3\" \/><\/a><\/center>There are lots of sloughs and little inlets and such, so the area is quite popular with kayakers and canoers.<br \/>\nIt was fun to see giant container ships buzz on by. Those things are HUGE.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/big ship from skamakowa.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"big ship from skamakowa.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/big ship from skamakowa-thumb.JPG\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"3\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nIn Skamokawa we pulled the boat out at a little boat ramp. Please note the historic bridge and building in the background:<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/ouzel at skamokowa boat ramp.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ouzel at skamokowa boat ramp.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/ouzel at skamokowa boat ramp-thumb.JPG\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" border=\"3\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nWe then camped on the boat at <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualguidebooks.com\/Washington\/OlympicPeninsula\/NorthShoreColumbia\/SkamokawaVistaPark.html\">Skamokawa Vista Park<\/a>, a really nice campground right on the water. It was so cold we froze our patooties off, but wouldn&#8217;t you know, the day we leave, the weather is sunny and warm! We still had a great time, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re back from our short camping\/boating adventure! We headed down the Columbia River on the Washington side and put the boat in at Cathlamet, the second oldest town in the state (according to a brochure in the Hai-Ying Chinese Restaurant). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=760\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}