I took these two photos to show friends and family what the actual view was from my windows. I'm still in awe of this place. It would be nice not to have the clutter down by the highway, but really, are you kidding? This is amazing. People would pay thousands of dollars a month for a situation like this in some big cities and I'm paying $400 a month, which includes some of the utilities! This is looking west toward the mouth of the river, which can't be seen from here. The bridge is the Astoria-Megler Bridge which crosses the Columbia, 4-point-something-miles to Washington on the other side.
This is looking out from a north-facing living room window onto the river and some abandoned docks. There's a small house trailer out there, and the dock itself is fenced off. I can see the huge tides rise and fall in the area between the shore and the first set pier. The hills on the other side of the river are in Washington. At the top right of the photo is the railing of my fire escape/deck. It's sooooooo nice to stand or sit out there and get the real panoramic view. Oddly enough, you can't get directly to the river from here, you have to walk a few blocks to a street that goes down the hill, then cross the busy Marine Drive, which is an extension of Highway 30, so it gets all the traffic coming up the coast to Portland. Then you can find your way past the warehouses to the River Walk, which goes clear through town and up to the cannery area on the east.
I took these two photos to show friends and family what the actual view was from my windows. I'm still in awe of this place. It would be nice not to have the clutter down by the highway, but really, are you kidding? This is amazing. People would pay thousands of dollars a month for a situation like this in some big cities and I'm paying $400 a month, which includes some of the utilities! This is looking west toward the mouth of the river, which can't be seen from here. The bridge is the Astoria-Megler Bridge which crosses the Columbia, 4-point-something-miles to Washington on the other side.
This is looking out from a north-facing living room window onto the river and some abandoned docks. There's a small house trailer out there, and the dock itself is fenced off. I can see the huge tides rise and fall in the area between the shore and the first set pier. The hills on the other side of the river are in Washington. At the top right of the photo is the railing of my fire escape/deck. It's sooooooo nice to stand or sit out there and get the real panoramic view. Oddly enough, you can't get directly to the river from here, you have to walk a few blocks to a street that goes down the hill, then cross the busy Marine Drive, which is an extension of Highway 30, so it gets all the traffic coming up the coast to Portland. Then you can find your way past the warehouses to the River Walk, which goes clear through town and up to the cannery area on the east.
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