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“E S C A P E” by | Kenneth R LeRose
Cape Disappointment St. Park, Washington
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King tides
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(by Karsten Winegeart)
#vertical#landscape#x#a#watsf#curators on tumblr#Karsten Winegeart#ocean#cliff#rocks#water#sunset#Cape Disappointment#washington
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Stormy day
#THIS WAS A VERY RISKY SHOT BTW. If he fell it woulda been game over for this blog#the adventures of solid snake#mgs#solid snake#metal gear solid#cape disappointment
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Cape Disappointment, Washington, 2005.
#landscape#seascape#surf#cape disappointment#pacific county#washington state#2005#photographers on tumblr
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let's all move here so we can pine for our lost loves in style
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North Head Lighthouse
Cape Disappointment State Park
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I've mainly been doing privately booked guided nature tours for the past couple months (yes, you can book me anytime throughout the year for a date and location of your choosing!) I figured it was time to offer a scheduled hike that anyone can join, so let's get out on the trail for Black Friday!
On November 24 from 1pm - 4pm we'll be exploring the North Head Trail at Cape Disappointment near Ilwaco, WA, a three mile out-and-back through forest and wetlands. Prepare for some moderate hills and great views along the way--and we might just head up onto the old battery at McKenzie Head, too!
This is an excellent opportunity to learn about local nature. Your guide, Rebecca Lexa (that's me!), will share her knowledge about the local flora, fauna, and fungi, as well as the ecosystems they are a part of. Bring your curiosity and your questions, and allow yourself to get to know this amazing natural place more deeply.
You can register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-friday-hike-at-cape-disappointment-tickets-760731657867
#hiking#hike#outdoors#forest#Cape Disappointment#Washington#Pacific Northwest#PNW#guided hike#guided tour#guided tours#ecology#nature
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Cape Disappointment, WA
June 3, 2018, iPhone 6
#yeah its called that#hilarious#Washington#cape disappointment#LIGHTHOUSE#!!1!!#if u squint#water#edited in photoshop#photography#my pictures
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(they didn't identify the picture or the photographer, but I can tell you that's Cape Disappointment)
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Bro. Let's GO.
(unfortunately joking cause I'm not driving in this any more than I have to)
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Cape Disappointment, WA
#original photography#outdoor photography#border collie#cape disappointment#pnw#beach dog#full moon#stoked
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Cape Disappointment - Washington - USA (by Curtis Gregory Perry)
#Cape Disappointment#WA#Washington#US#USA#United States#North America#Lighthouse#Building#Landmark#Photography#Stars#Nightscape#Travelling#Travel#Tourism#Holiday#Urlaub#Reisen
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Cape Disappointment Lighthouse
The Cape Disappointment Light is a lighthouse on Cape Disappointment near the mouth of the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington.
The light was constructed in 1856 and it was the eighth active light to be lit on the West Coast. The light at Cape Disappointment has had its fair share of incidents; many of which were recorded by its first keeper, Joh Boyd. Such incidents include having to stay nights within the unheated tower during the winter months due to distance from the keepers dwelling to a fifteen-inch gun installed for the Civil War discharging and shattering several panel of glass in the lantern room.
The Cape Disappointment Light has not always been the sight of tragedy. Captain J.W. “Joel” Munson tended as lighthouse keeper from 1865 to 1877. During his career ,on March 15, 1865, the ship Industry wrecked near the cape, only seven survived of its twenty four people aboard. Greatly disturbed at the fact that many more could have been saved if the cape had a lifesaving station, Captain Munson repaired a old longboat using money he raised from playing the fiddle at parties along with building a boathouse to store it.
On May 5, 1866, the W.B. Scranton, loaded with eight hundred tons of freight from San Francisco, was driven into the middle sands of the bar. Keeper Munson launched his craft with a few other men and was able to rescue the entire crew. Ironically, Captain Paul Corno of the Scranton was also one of the seven survivors of the Industry.
Through Munson’s efforts, a lifesaving station was established at Cape Disappointment in 1871, and his famous craft became part of the station’s initial equipment. The tradition of lifesaving continues today at the Coast Guard lifeboat station and training school located on the cape.
Cape Disappointment’s distinctive black horizontal band was added around 1930 to distinguish it from North Head Lighthouse, located just two miles to the north. The Coast Guard planned to discontinue the light in 1965, claiming that the Columbia River Lightship and entrance range lights were sufficient to mark the river, but protests by the Columbia River Bar Pilots kept the light in service. The light was automated in 1973, but the patriarch of Northwest lighthouses, still equipped with its fourth-order lens, remains active to this day.
On May 11, 1792, American Robert Gray, a seafarer more interested in finding furs for the China market than the honor of discovery, was the first European to successfully cross the bar, and the river was named after his ship, the Columbia Rediviva.
A prominent cape on the north side of the river’s mouth helps mark the entrance to the river. Named “Kah’eese” by the local Indians, and then Cape San Rogue by Bruno de Heceta in 1775, the cape received its current name from Captain John Meares. After vainly trying to seek shelter from a turbulent sea on July 6, 1788, Meares wrote, “Disappointment continued to accompany us…we can safely exert that no river San Rogue exists.” Out of frustration, Meares christened the cape, “Cape Disappointment.”
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#lol thats a way better name nevermind#minecraft build#minecraft building#mineblr#minecraft#lighthouse#washington state#cape disappointment#bro literally just called it that#this other guy was gonna name it Cape Hancock#but changed it back when he found out about what Gray called it#was just like
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"Areas become hazardous when I enter them, because my body is a deadly weapon."
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View of the beach, jetty and mouth of the Columbia River from Cape Disappointment lighthouse, 2005.
#landscape#seascape#beach#jetty#columbia river#cape disappointment#washington state#photographers on tumblr#pnw#pacific northwest#2005
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Where Washington meets Oregon, there are several lighthouses, and those lighthouses cut through the gloom that gives Astoria its perpetual autumn. I arrived around 9 o’clock to a spa hotel on the pier looking out and up at the Astoria-Megler bridge. The more famous view was up in the hills where a white house with orange trim was made famous by a hodgepodge cast of teenagers called The Goonies. All I can really say is that this part of the world, with all its fishy smells and haar, is magical.
#lighthouse#lighthouses#solo trekking#solo trip#solo travel#astoria#the goonies#cape disappointment#north head#oregon coast#west coast
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