Next up, some photos from a second early-afternoon flight from Portland down to Phoenix. This photoset is smaller than the first one, mostly because I fell asleep for a bit, and everything was just kind of beige and hazy and uninspiring all the way down.
One of the photos right after takeoff is looking across the agricultural part of Sauvie Island, and I think you can see Bell View Point toward the top of the photo. It's a bit of river bank directly across from Kelly Point Park, making it the official mouth of the Willamette River as it joins the Columbia. It's another of those Metro properties that used to be a Multnomah County park until the 1990s, and the reason you haven't seen a blog post about it is that the only way to get to it is by a narrow gravel road marked by large "Private" and "No Trespassing" signs. So I don't think the place has been (legally) accessible by land for several decades on end. Maybe you can get there by kayak or small boat, which might involve cutting across the main shipping channel of the Willamette River without being run over by a ship full of outbound wheat or inbound cars. That hardly seems worth doing, just to visit what seems to be an otherwise-generic bit of riverbank, especially since I don't own a kayak, and the only person I knew who owned a boat ended up selling it for the usual financial reasons, despite all the glamor and attention and whatnot that comes with being that one friend who owns a boat.
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