2 On Apr 17, 05:23 am, Pierce wrote:

Yes the jetty is awesome. A good place to feel the power of mother nature, yet those rocks were placed by people to ease navigation. MN incorporates them into her scheme in a wondrous way. Low tide reveals tide pools teeming with all manner of sea life and even more clinging to the rocks. The sea birds can count on a delectable buffet as could you or I should we want it. Muscles, crab, clams, the occasional trapped salmon in a tide pool. Not to mention the negative ions at high tide. It is one place my wife always wants to visit on a trip to Astoria. Nobody complains about it either.

4 On Apr 17, 12:38 pm, Bunny von Munchausen wrote:

When I was a kid an elderly neighbor’s father was an engineer on one of the south jetty extensions-whenever it was done—the 1930s, maybe the late 1920s..it changed the whole dynamic of the beaches south of the river and the details of the contruction were fascinating. It isn’t very common knowledge, I’m sure, but according to my late neighbor the entire jetty sits upon a bed of bundeled bales of briars and brush that is 20 feet thick-A huge “mat”, if you will. It was neccessary to do it that way to keep the everpresent and ferocious currents from scouring away the sands thus sinking the rock and allowing Clatsop Spit to swallow the jetty and bury it just like the sands claim every thing else. The jettys on both sides of the river are engineering marvels considering the intense and powerful natural forces at play at the mouth of the river.

6 On Apr 18, 10:27 am, auntie l wrote:

Auntie had her first real kiss on that jetty. Wow was that a long time ago!