Sauvie Island Canoe Trip

We took another canoe trip with the Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership, and this time we explored Gilbert River on Sauvie Island. Their summer canoe trips are free and open to paddlers ages 5 and older. I love to take Jasper on canoe trips because you see natural areas from such a different perspective when you're on the water. This time, we saw osprey, sandpipers, turkey vultures, kingfishers, and clear signs of beaver and river otters.  

Osprey.

Osprey.

Huge and weird orange fungus!

Signs of river otters- a tunnel opening littered with shells.

Egg masses (bullfrog?) marooned above the water.

Osprey nest.

Clear signs of beaver activity.

Only on Sauvie Island!  We were forced to break for a flock of wild turkeys.

Wild turkeys.