The weather breaks and Becs spends an amazng day at Tillamook High School. Students from the 6 local schools, among many other things, have set up and are running an interpretative center, hatch out salmon for release, have created a community park on the site of an old mill, and are about to take some of their science projects to an international exposition in Amsterdam. All these projects tackle local issues and often have local economic implications - for example how to extract ethanol from discarded whey at Tillamook creamery, how to extract biodiesel from invasive Scotch broom and how to improve local water quality. Becs is very impressed.
Finally we head back to Portland to dry out and spend a few more cosy days with Kent and Jeanie before packing all our gear into the Old White Granny Dragon again and heading east. The next part of our adventure is beginning...
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