Wide Columbia River at Astoria

As I earlier mentioned, the bridge from Washington to Oregon near the Pacific Ocean is fully four miles long. Not far beyond to the west in the haze, the Columbia River widens to include Baker Bay and becomes around six miles wide. Back a few blogs, remember the narrow channel way up in Canada with wild rapids. The river there is only a few YARDS wide!!! About a thousand miles later here is the river...wow!  The town of Astoria includes many Finnish residents, who came as immigrants to fish for salmon or to work in the fish canneries. The river you see is also the stretch entered by Captain Gray at his discovery of the river in 1792.