Thursday, May 24, 2012

Washington Wind


You would think that I would have noticed the trees planted in wind brakes all around the campsites, but I was surprised at how windy it was at the campground.  Turns out that it’s OK most of the day, but late afternoon every day the winds pick up and sweeps this Columbia river valley.  There was no way to eat dinner outside.  Somewhere in the middle of the night the winds stop.

Up north it is cottonwood season.  This is the place where cottonwood “cotton” goes to die.
On our next day traveling we saw lots of dust devils (little tornedoes) both little and large.  I’m not sure why we see so many dust devils while traveling.  Once we saw six of them at the same time with most of them circling in a bigger dust devil.  Very cool.


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