We took the mail boat to Agness, OR which is up the Rogue River from Gold Beach. The boat is a jet boat not the one I am in. (in the picture) The mail boat has been delivering mail there 6 days a week for the last 113 years. There is only two deliveries by boat in the US Postal Service. Agness is located up in the mountains 32 miles inland and takes two hours to reach by boat---longer by car. I t was a beautiful trip through canyons with forests, wildflowers, and rugged rock cliffs. We saw boats along the way fishing as the salmon are running now. We stopped to watch the Fish and Wildlife Dept. net the salmon to check their health and quantity. They do this 3 times a week. They took 3 kinds of salmon this time and we watching them weigh and tag them. At Agness, we had a lunch at a fishing resort while the mail was being delivered and picked up and then the trip back.
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