Sunday, June 6, 2021
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Breakfast at the 42nd Street Café in Seaview, WA; an omelet
with spinach, bacon, parmesan, oysters, and green onions (KSS) |
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Homemade roast beef hash with poached eggs; the jam was
made with cranberries, orange, strawberry, and walnuts |
*On 11/14/1805, Meriwether Lewis and a small party went ahead to see the Pacific Ocean and look for other Europeans in the area, finding none.*
*On 11/18/1805, William Clark and others who wanted to see more of the ocean, made the trek to Cape Disappointment, a promontory named earlier by Captain James Meares who approached it in 1788, but could not find the entrance to the Columbia River, thus Cape Disappointment.*
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The Pacific Ocean is not so pacific today
on Cape Disappointment |
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| Gaultheria shallon/Salal blossoms (KSS) |
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| Part of Fort Canby's Battery 247 (1875) (KSS) |
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Cape Disappointment Lighthouse (1852-1856)
at the mouth of the Columbia River |
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| The Columbia River comes from the left behind the cape |
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| Cape Disappointment: Lewis & Clark Historical Marker |
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Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center (1973) required an
admission of $5 per person for the Lewis & Clark exhibit |
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Thomomys talpoides/Northern Pocket Gopher;
surprisingly, we have only seen stuffed gophers |
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The artist had never seen a grizzly bear, but this
is how he portrayed such a ferocious animal?! (KSS) |
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| Examples of books from the Lewis & Clark Traveling Library |
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These are said to be personal items of Sergeant Patrick Gass;
a metal flask and a razor box purported
to have been made by Sakagawea |
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Free for everyone was a display on the lighthouse
and water safety, including a US Coast Guard
Surfboat Type H (1920s) |
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| Waikiki Beach on Cape Disappointment is full of cedar log driftwood |
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| Confluent Project Amphitheater (2008, designed by Maya Lin) |
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From the amphitheater, a path with lyrics
of a Chinook praise song |
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The path leads to a cedar grove with a
section of a tree that was here in the time
of Lewis and Clark, surrounded by
driftwood sections of cedar trees |
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Digitalis purpurea/
Common Foxglove (KSS) |
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| A boardwalk leads to Waikiki Beach ... |
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| ... with quotes from the Lewis & Clark journals |
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At the Cape Disappointment Baker Bay side is a
basalt Fish Cleaning Table (2008, by Maya Lin) |
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| A boardwalk leads to an overlook ... |
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| ... with a view of the Columbia River/Baker Bay |
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| A fishing boat heads up the Columbia River |
*On 11/27/1805, the Corps of Discovery proceeded around a point that extended one and a half miles into the river, which was named Tongue Point by British explorer George Vancouver in 1792.* |
| A view of Tongue Point from Astoria, OR |
*On 12/7/1805, the Corps of Discovery set up camp at a site where they would build their winter quarters, Fort Clatsop.*
*On 12/9/1805, the Corps of Discovery began to build Fort Clatsop.*
*On 12/30/1805, the Corps of Discovery completed building Fort Clatsop.*
(We visited Fort Clatsop in
1998.)
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| Fort Clatsop Visitor Center (KSS) |
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| Fort Clatsop: Lewis & Clark Historical Marker |
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Statue (2008, by Jim Demetro) replaces
one that was stolen and cut up to be sold
for scrap; this statue is the same as the one
at Sakagawea's Rest Park in Darby, MT |
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A cedar chip path through the forest
leads to the replica Fort Clatsop, named
for the local First Peoples Nation |
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Replica Fort Clatsop (2005 to replace the
1955 community-built fort that burned down) |
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A version of Arrival (1980, by Stanley Wanlass),
depicts Meriwether Lewis with outstretched arms
while a Clatsop shows William Clark a flounder
and Seaman looks on (KSS) |
(We also visited Seaside and Cannon Beach, OR in
1998.)
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End of the Trail (1990, by Stanley Wanlass)
shows Clark and Lewis, with Seaman,
in Seaside, OR (this was not really
the end of the trail) (KSS) |
*From 12/28/1805 to 2/20/1806, several men from the Corps of Discovery established a salt-making camp 15 miles south of Fort Clatsop. They produced 28 gallons of salt.* |
| Seaside, OR: Lewis & Clark Historical Marker |
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| The salt cairn was reconstructed on the original foundation |
*On 1/5/1806, two men from the salt-making camp arrived at Fort Clatsop to relay the news that there was a beached whale carcass a few miles south of their location.*
*On 1/7/1806, William Clark and 14 men hiked down to see the beached whale, but by the time they arrived, the whale had been picked clean. Clark was able to trade for 300 pounds of whale blubber.*
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