18 September 2008
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Willamette River near Salem Riverfront Park.
At the moment I am reflection upon my time at rowing practice. Where the other members of the team and I spend about and hour and a half on the river six days a week.
When I am not rowing I really enjoy looking out into the river of the banks or the Willamette. Unfortunately I have yet to see any neat or very interesting creature in the river. Sometimes when I am getting into the boat I can see small fish that appeared to be juvenile, but I am unable to tell what kind of fish they are. Today I was lucky enough to see an osprey catch a fish. It was as if this majestic bird swooped out of no where and caught it’s meal and left. The only out of the norm thing that I saw while witnessing the bird fish was it had quite a long pause while catching the fish on the water. Which gave me the idea that the fish the osprey was catching must be large because it was not able to be a swift in catching the fish as I have seen other osprey. I also enjoy watching the different kinds of bushes and trees on the bank from the boat. From California the northwest is such a different world it amazes me all these evergreen plants, opposed to the yellow that coats everything in California six months of the year. The other thing that amazes me, here is the river and how vast it is. This is another new experience for me and I look forward to watching it change as the year progresses.
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