Fishing the Snohomish 8-15-12

I took about a week off from work and Dave and I were supposed to take Cedar and also my ex-dog Skye across the state to visit my dad.  Unfortunately he was still sick and I was 3 kinds of sick so I had to do little relaxing things around this area instead of bringing a ton of germs to my dad.  We still managed to find fun things to do.  One of these things was to launch his boat into the Snohomish River and fish.  He packed us a picnic, and while we didn't catch anything, it was really fun.  What a huge and beautiful river.

While on the river we caught no fish, but some leaves and weeds, and I even caught a large and heavy piece of bark that was quite exciting until I realized it was not a large and heavy fish.  We also enjoyed seeing parachuters and hot air balloners.

There was a cool dilapidated old railroad bridge that kids apparently used to party on.  Now they seem to congregate near it, as when we returned to the boat launch we could hear them loudly having less than intelligent conversation. 

Sunset was pretty from the river.  I liked this old farm house.  Which reminds me!  I wish I had taken a picture or a movie, but at one point there was a family with a pug who were playing on a beach of the river.  A hereford cow with a very small calf came out of the brush near them and the pug went after them!  The cow was understandably threatened by this odd midget wolf-descendant and charged it a bit, stomping around and tossing her head, and the woman ran at the animals yelling for "Pugsley."  I was a bit worried that the cow might charge this bigger target, but luckily instead Pugsley gave up on its large beef dinner and came back to her and the herefords moved on up the river.  It was exciting, but I was glad I didn't need to go use my First Responder training. 

Also a train happened to go over one of the working railway bridges while we were on the river.  It was actually pretty cool to see from this angle.