After only a few days at Sandy Riverfront, we packed up this morning and headed into Portland to pick up Chris and Annie for a trip north to visit Mount St. Helens. We are staying at Seaquest State Park, a lovely wooded park just across the highway from the first visitor center for Mount St. Helens, adjacent to Silver Lake.
I wish I could say we pulled into our spot and set up camp in record time. Actually it took a couple of hours before Ken maneuvered the rig into our assigned campsite (#15). It was worth the trouble--we had a lovely wooded site with picnic table and fire ring. After lunch we headed over to the Mount St. Helens Visitor Center and viewed the displays.
Then we walked the one mile trail around Silver Lake, much of which was on a boardwalk over the lake. We saw lots of birds, including a bald eagle in flight, and many water plants in the shallow lake.
 The eagle was impressive flying over the lake, but the longest look at it we got was when it was sitting in this tree a few feet above its nest. |  We found a lot of these yellow flowers in the lake. We're not sure what they are. |
We had egg salad sandwiches for lunch and veggie chili for supper.
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