Category: Outings

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Hughes Water Garden & Durham Park Outing

We still had an injured player on our team so we went for an easy outing this time. This time I was with Lori, Jeanette, Sylvia and Marilyn. We started out at Hughes Water Garden, always a fun place to visit. They were in the process of getting setup for the summer season so they only had part of the inventory in yet but it was still fun to see what they had so far. They have lots of working water fountains going and several demonstration ponds.

Durham City Park was our next stop. This is the last Park on the Fanno Creek Trail route. From here the creek empties into the Tualatin River. We did a short 1.5 mile exploratory walk. We finished up with lunch at the Three Mermaids Public House.

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Clark County Historical Museum Walk

This was one of our cultural walks with Lori, Jeanette, Sylvia and I to the Clark County Historical Museum. We gathered at the Pearson Air Museum and wondered the streets of Vancouver to the Museum. After our visit to the Museum we wondered down to Brothers Cascadia Brewing Evergreen pub for lunch. We manage to get 6 miles in with all of our wondering.

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Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge trip

A road trip to visit and scout Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge and some other stops on the way. Lori and I headed out and made our first stop at McMenamins Kalama Harbor Lodge. I had a chance to try some more biscuit and gravy. Heading North on I5 our next stop was to scout Mima Mounds National Area Preserve. It has a unique geology of large mounds that no one for sure how they were made. We finally made it to Nisqually. With the government shutdown none of the building were open but the trails were. We covered about 4.5 miles of trail and started making plans to return to see more.