Astoria, Oregon features historic homes, Ft. Clatsop National Memorial, Fort Stevens State Park and many other places and activities.
One activity you're sure to enjoy: shoveling fish-guts.
A truck full of fish guts, freshly filled by Bornstein's Seafood on Portway Street, sloshed heads, blood and other muck out at the stoplight by the Portway Tavern late Tuesday morning.
Bornstein workers scraped, shoveled and eventually - with the help of Astoria Fire and Rescue - hosed down the area for almost an hour to rid the street of the smell and parts.
One could think of it as a seafood medley, but some felt that it was incompatible with the overall ambiance of the town, and so a lengthy - and odoriferous - cleanup process was undertaken. It seemed a bit unnecessary, as between the current sushi rage and the large populations of seagulls in the area, it's almost certain that the problem would have gone away in reasonably short order. On the other hand, it gave the fire department intern some additional experience.
