Port of Wilma Clarkston, Washington

This morning we drove across the Snake River to the Port of Wilma. This barge was taking on a load of grain. You can see grain dust rising from the vent holes in the top of the hopper barge.

Instead of filling this barge with grain stored dockside, in large silos, tractor trailer trucks are delivering truck loads of grain and unloading dockside. It takes a lot of 18 wheel tractor trailer rigs to fill a barge like this. I don't know how many but this barge has been loading for several days and will be for days to come.

Stacks of lumber at Forest Products operation Wilma Port Facility Clarkston, Washington

The forest products facility is turning out these huge stacks of lumber.

Log handling machine at Forest Products Operation

That big machine has grabbed another load of logs. This load of logs is a complete load for a logging truck. There are three to five of these large machines moving logs at any one time.

Barge load of woodchips at Wilma Port Facility near Clarkston, Washington

This barge load of wood chips was being unloaded and hauled off by tractor trailer rigs. The Potlatch pulp mill a few miles upriver in Lewiston, Idaho is where these chips are heading. The chips are going to be used in press board and or pulp manufacturing at the Potlatch plant. It would be so much more efficient if the barge could just deliver the chips to the Potlatch papermill, lumbermill, pressboard plant, pulp mill, and whatever else the plant produces. Whatever, the chips are being unloaded off that barge and hauled off in tractor trailer trucks.

Logs at Forest Products Operation Wilma Port Facility near Clarkston, Washington

Log inventory.

Grain storage facility near Lewiston, Idaho

As we left the port we passed this grain storage facility across the Clearwater River from Lewiston, Idaho.

View from Spiral Highway

As we head up the Spiral Highway Joyce took this picture of the confluence of the Snake River and the Clearwater River. The Clearwater River is the one coming from the left side of this picture. The camera is looking to the south. The Snake river is flowing from the center of the picture. Lewiston, Idaho is on the left side of the Snake River while Clarkston, Washington is on the right side of the Snake River. It is hard to see but look closely for the blue bridge across the Snake River a few hundred yards south of its confluence with the Clearwater River.

That bridge is the US 12 bridge that connects Lewiston and Clarkston and is know as the interstate bridge, not because it is part of the interstate system but because it connects two states.

Bridge over Snake River at Clarkston, Washington

And this final picture of Clarkston, Washington and the Snake River that Joyce took as we were in the motorhome moving to Coeur d'Alene. The river looks so serene in this picture.

Good job Joyce.

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