Cascade Locks {Photo Friday}

This is Cascade Locks, Oregon. Wikipedia says, “The city took its name from a set of locks built to improve navigation past the Cascades Rapids of the Columbia River. The U.S. federal government approved the plan for the locks in 1875, construction began in 1878, and the locks were completed on November 5, 1896. The locks were subsequently submerged in 1938, replaced by Bonneville Lock and Dam.”

Here’s how it looked into 1920 (via):

By the time we got there in 2011, it wasn’t all that clear what had originally been there. Part of the river splashes through a narrow concrete canal, crowned by a bridge connecting the mainland and a small, low man-made island. Here’s all that’s left today:

 
The view from the island was rather nice. (And more on the spectacular bridge in the next post.)

The view from the other side of the island, out across the river toward Washington? Even nicer.

Not a rainbow, but some strange coincidental cloud shape. A cloudbow?

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