About them kings... and the queen found down on the sandbar that time on the skiff.

And once upon a time... she was walkin' along by the riverbank... and she seen somethin' bumpin' and scrapin' along on a sandbar down under the willows.

The Columbia empties into the Pacific Ocean just west of Astoria, Oregon, over the Columbia Bar, a shifting sandbar that makes the river's mouth one of the most hazardous stretches of water to navigate in the world.