Sauvie Island is mostly farmland.
We biked along the Multnomah Channel of the Willamette River, then came back
and rode a loop that took us toward
the Columbia River.

Sauvie Islanders claim their island,
at about 15 miles long and 4 miles wide,
is roughly the same size and shape as Manhattan.
Fact check: It depends what you mean by "roughly." Manhattan is 33.77 square miles or 21,612 acres,
and 68 percent of that is land, the rest water.
It's 13.4 miles long and 2.3 miles wide at its widest.
Sauvie Island's land area alone is 32.75 square miles
or 20,960 acres. I couldn't find a figure for the water area,
but Sturgeon Lake alone is approximately 3,000 acres.
In any case, about half of Sauvie Island
is a state wildlife area.

The year-round population in the 2000 census was 1,078. Residences include about 60 houseboats.

Heading back to the mainland

Rick likes Widmer Brothers'
Omission beer -- it's gluten-free!