Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Mike Rowe Dam

I actually got to go inside the 'Mike Rowe Dam'. It was fabulous! Although I would have much preferred to see Mike Rowe himself working away (and offering to take me out on the town or whatever.... I'm just saying I wouldn't kick him out of bed!)
Anyway, back to the Dam.
So they have these fish ladder things for the Salmon to swim back upstream to spawn.
There was a ton of fish heading upstream.

The water is really murky, but it was still really cool to see the fish jump through each window. This is what the fish ladder looks like outside.
(And I love the yellow tree - some lady said it looked like someone glued the blossoms onto the tree branches).
Here's a view from the top of the Dam into town.


And this is one of the propellers in the Dam.
(Mike Rowe worked on these when he was there).

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