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Hammond, Oregon 97121

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Let's go explore the battery ruins

Stairway to the gun emplacements

Unintended irony

Replica of the guns used to protect the Columbia River during WWII

Hard to make out the Columbia River out there in the gray

A gun mount gets repurposed as a garden

On a rainy exploration on top of the gun batteries

Mothers tell their children "Behave, or I'll send you to Battery 245!"

No one ever gets in (or out!) of Battery 245

This river is guarded by hikers with attitude...because it's raining

The low tide's left Jetty Lagoon and Swash Lake somewhat drained

We grabbed the Jetty Trail for a short hike across the sodden countryside

It may not have been exactly "Singing in the Rain" but it was fun

The grounds were dotted with the ruins of barracks

These guns are replicas for us to imagine what it was like long ago

This is what's left of the Civil War era at Fort Stevens

After the Civil War, this part of Fort Stevens became a parade ground

We make our exit back into the real world

Columbines in the garden

Columbines were blooming at the visitor center, and I had to answer the call

This had been the observation station for the gun batteries

So many different color combinations

A legume of some sort does a fine job of harvesting rain from the air

Columbine of the yellow persuasion

A garden shrub collects rainwater for additional sustenance

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