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You can’t take pictures in the port. This is a free-to-use photo by donauwood. Pretend these are Subarus fresh off the ship. The ship holds 6000 in 13 stories. Only longshoremen are allowed to drive them off the ship.

We have been wanting to the Port of Vancouver, USA tour forever. But the tours fill up fast and we’ve never been able to get in.

This year, Bob was on it right away (in April). But when he went to get the tickets they were already half gone. He asked me if the July date would work.

Me: YES! Hurry!

I loved every minute of it. Top exports? Grain, corn, beans, scrap steel and other bulk materials. Top imports? Cars, Steel, windfarm parts. Do they call them wind mills?

The port imported almost 100k Subarus last year. When they come off the ship, they have little hooks in the back that are used to tie them down on the ship. When the cars are processed for you to buy, the hook comes off and they put this little patch on. Now you know.

The port also do environmental stuff including creating a purple martin colony.

“Purple martins are rare migratory birds that winter in South America and move north into the U.S. and Canada in the summer. The primary purple martin nesting and foraging habitat in Washington is open land near water.”

They have these plastic gourds for the birds to nest in. They even ended up modifying the “door” to make it too small for predator birds.

By the time we were done, I wanted to get a job at the port. A little late for a career change, but I would do the tour again.