Volunteers are great.. We don’t have that concept (at least not that extensively) in Germany, but here, you’ll find them everywhere. In museums, state parks, animal shelters, you cannot avoid them.
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What we had in front of us today was yet another, albeit short, travel day.
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… taking care of a really seasick Rheinland dryland whale. That would be me…
Stayed at Newport, Oregon today.
If there is one thing I am not sorry about today, it is leaving the Days Inn.
Many birds migrate. Some fish and marine mammals migrate. Some landborne animals migrate – and even the Monarch butterfly migrates in swarms from somewhere in Canada to southern South America. And Oldtimers migrate, too!
Alrighty then. Fed up with the weather, we decided to really change our trip slightly…and head South!
We felt like Lewis and Clark today, alright.
We went to Mt. St. Helens today and the weather was the same as yesterday – rainy and foggy with visibility under 30 meters for part of the way. Nevertheless, we made it to Johnston Observatory, where the weather was so miserable that we skipped the outside viewing points and went straight inside and decided to wait for the next educational film viewing.