Today we took a cruise down the Cowlitz River. We took the roads that we figured would keep us closest to the river’s northern edge and we were pretty successful. The drives down Washington’s rivers draining the Cascades have been universally spectacular.
Eventually we crossed I-5 going west and arrived in the small town of Winlock. Winlock looks like it was a manufacturing powerhouse back in the old days but it appears to be pretty placid now with gorgeous old residences surrounding a cute main one-way street. Strangely, many folks in Winlock feel compelled to have oversize fiberglass chickens installed throughout the downtown area. Of course, with that many chickens around they felt they should also have an egg so, after almost no searching, we found a massive fiberglass ovoid item atop a pipe column with an interpretive sign beneath it indicating it was the “World’s Largest Egg” despite the resin and silicate construction. I suppose it could be the world’s largest egg-shaped facsimile of an egg but I am not so sure about it being an egg or functional. Perhaps they have lots of chickens and egg production in Winlock but we sure didn’t smell any.
Chicken pictures here