Showing posts with label Olympic Peninsula. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Olympic Peninsula. Show all posts
6/14/22

Port Townsend Shoreline in 1792 and 2022

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 In 1792, Captain Vancouver camped at Port Hudson in now Port Townsend to explore the area in 3 small boats.   John Sykes illustrated this i...
11/30/21

Tall ships in Port Townsend Bay

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This 1891 view of Port Townsend Bay is enchanting for so many reasons - the bay loaded with tall ships (and one hybrid steamer), the impress...
6/27/21

Port Crescent, Revisited from the Water

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We’ve posted about the lost logging town of Port Crescent on this blog before , but there are so many great historical photos of the townsit...
3/20/21

Another view of New Dungeness Lighthouse

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We’ve visited New Dungeness Lighthouse in a previous post , but it’s such a unique spot, it’s worth looking at from multiple angles. My buck...
11/13/20

Landing craft on the beach at Fort Worden

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 A quick post today from Fort Worden in Port Townsend. I mostly want to use this post to amplify the great work by Fort Worden historian Tim...
8/5/20

Dungeness Spit: The Lighthouse, Part 1

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Yesterday I wrapped up the last of three days of annual shoreline survey work on Dungeness Spit , which took me out to the lighthouse area ....
6/17/20

Ediz Hook Part Two - From the Other End

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Every year I try to make it out the the end of Ediz Hook to collect survey data to add to a multi-year monitoring study of beaches in Washi...
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6/11/20

Washington Harbor - 600 Years of Activity

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This Washington Harbor shoreline at the entrance to Sequim Bay is one of the most culturally significant and extensively researched historic...
6/8/20

Lost cities of the Strait: Port Crescent

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Okay, the use of the term "cities" might be a bit of a stretch in this case, but I've found myself increasingly fascinated by ...
6/6/20

Elwha River Dike and Fox Point Bunker

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Here's stories from the Evening News and Chronicle from 1962 and 1963 detailing interest in building a dike to control the flow of the E...
5/28/20

Johnson Creek Auto Camp / Pitship Point (part 2)

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Our previous post on Pitship Point introduced you to some history of John Wayne Marina and included a historical picture of a long dump ...
5/21/20

The Transformation of Urban Shorelines: Port Angeles

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Most shorelines of urban coastal communities in Washington have been radically transformed by fill, and Port Angeles is no different.  Downt...
5/13/20

John Wayne Marina / Pitship Point in Sequim Bay

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This is part one of two historical photos I’ll be sharing, taken near what is now John Wayne Marina in Sequim Bay . This area can be refer...
5/11/20

Something a bit different...restoration on the shoreline

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The fundamental idea behind this blog was to provide modern perspectives of Washington's historic shorelines, and highlight the transfor...
5/6/20

Ediz Hook

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No trip down the memory lane of Washington's shorelines would be complete without a stop in to consider Ediz Hook.  Ediz Hook is a rough...
5/5/20

Port Williams...Bustling Port Now County Park

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Port Williams is located on the Olympic Peninsula near Sequim , between Sequim Bay and New Dungeness Lighthouse. It’s currently a Clallam Co...
4/29/20

The Red Lion Hotel on the Port Angeles Waterfront

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Like many of the cities on the shoreline of the Salish Sea, downtown Port Angeles is built mostly on fill, and this fill material underlies ...