Episode 41 - Cape Disappointment Lighthouse

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Hi everybody, I'm Vince and I'm Emily and you're listening to the lighthouse lowdown. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:15,000 It's a great foghorn. Love it. 3 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Do you believe I made that intro music before I even started the podcast? 4 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,000 Before we even lighthouse lowdowners? 5 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:32,000 Yeah, I like to make things like if I go if I have an idea I go all in before it even proves to be like something that I'll continue, you know. 6 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:39,000 So I have a lot of hobbies that I've started, spent a bunch of money on and then abandoned promptly afterwards. 7 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,000 So only a couple hobbies that have made it. 8 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:47,000 Well, here we are. We've dumped a little bit of money into this and we're at the lighthouse lowdown. 9 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,000 Should I do this again? 10 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,000 We're getting started. This is our representative history buoy for today. 11 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:54,000 You're jumping in. 12 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:55,000 We're jumping. 13 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:56,000 Coast Guard. 14 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:05,000 This is one of the, I was going to say five, I'm not sure, one of the several buoys that is eventually going to be involved with the lighthouse we're talking about today. 15 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:10,000 Oh, but these don't look like buoys for people that aren't watching. 16 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:11,000 Big buoy. 17 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,000 Vince has pulled up a picture of a strange Coast Guard buoy. 18 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,000 It's a big modern buoy. I assume those are handrails on it. 19 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:23,000 Yeah, it looks like one of those, the merry-go-rounds that you would, that had a bunch of bars on it to hang onto. 20 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:24,000 Yep. 21 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,000 You ever fallen off one of those? 22 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,000 No, I haven't. Have I ever fallen off? 23 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:29,000 Yeah. 24 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,000 No. I've never fallen off. 25 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:39,000 Sorry. I just see videos of people who go really, really fast and then fly off. 26 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:44,000 I feel like that's something that like guys would have done when they were like hanging out with their bros. 27 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:45,000 We did. We never get that. 28 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:46,000 Okay. 29 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,000 We didn't have the internet when I was a kid. So not really. 30 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:50,000 You had to get the idea. 31 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:55,000 So we just had to like, you know, oh my gosh, it was so fun. So crazy. 32 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:01,000 There was no comparing. So this is a buoy, but the history buoy today is the word fetch. 33 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,000 As in that's so. 34 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,000 No, really? Are we actually? 35 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:10,000 Yeah, I'm defining fetch. Do you know what fetch means? I mean, there's several definitions. 36 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:11,000 I mean, yes. 37 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,000 I mean, one of them is nautical. We'll get to it. 38 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:20,000 So fetch is a verb. Number one, go for and then bring back for someone to fetch something like a dog would fetch. 39 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Right. 40 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:28,000 But the nautical is a noun and it is the distance traveled by wind or waves across open water. 41 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:29,000 Okay. 42 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:34,000 And so I was like, so the distance of the water, like a linear distance. 43 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,000 So I looked further into it because I wanted to know. 44 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:47,000 So it's that as well as the distance the wind blows unobstructed over water, especially in the case where it's a factor affecting the buildup of waves. 45 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:53,000 Okay. So wind among tides and other factors builds up waves. 46 00:02:53,000 --> 00:03:01,000 And eventually there's a point where at the wind's critical speed, matching the wave speed, 47 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:07,000 if the wind is no longer adding to the wave height, then it will white top and wash out. 48 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:12,000 So that's why sometimes you have different components of crazy storms building up. 49 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:13,000 Yeah. 50 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:19,000 So I thought that was kind of fun. It's a fetch. It's a distance where I'm going to say it's a distance where the wind contributes to the wave building. 51 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:20,000 Okay. 52 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Because that's what does that have to do with our buoy? 53 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Well, I just chose the buoy because it's a history buoy. 54 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:29,000 I see. Oh, sorry. 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But it wrecked near Cape Disappointment. 81 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:37,000 And I was like, I'll just have a short episode this week. It's going to be great. It's just about the Oriole involved in a. 82 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:43,000 And then I got sucked in. Yeah, as ships do. Oh, an excellent. 83 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:50,000 Excellent. Near Cape Disappointment. So incredible photo. I go to our YouTube and see the photos that Vince is putting up. You really should. 84 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:59,000 This is a cool one because I like the water washing down. I'm going to show you several photos of this. I believe that's called Dead Man's Cove. 85 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:06,000 There's trails nearby. There's lots of visitors, centers and activities in this area. Astoria is nearby for those of you who are interested. 86 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:16,000 But I'm going to pull up a map because I like to do that. Yeah. Cape Disappointment Lighthouse is here. You'll also have another lighthouse up here called North Head, which we'll talk about. 87 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:20,000 It's famous as well. Cape Disappointment State Park. You zoom out. 88 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:27,000 This is the entrance to the Columbia River. I guess I should say the mouth of the Columbia River, which outflows into the Pacific Ocean. 89 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:32,000 Astoria is a town I mentioned. Cool town. I have been there. 90 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:37,000 You zoom out there. Seattle, Portland. So here we are. 91 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:46,000 It's right on the edge of Oregon. The top of Oregon. It is the border. This waterway right here. Oh, it's Washington. So technically it is in Washington. 92 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:53,000 We'll talk a lot about this, but I'm going to close the map for the moment. Okay. Yeah, I get distracted. This is another map. 93 00:07:53,000 --> 00:08:00,000 Anytime you have a map up, I'm like, oh, look, a pub. You know, I always get distracted. Like what's in Astoria? Yeah. 94 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:05,000 Can you zoom in on that? Where are we going to go? Totally unrelated to the lighthouse. You mentioned Blackberry Pie. 95 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:17,000 All right. So the Columbia River I mentioned, I need to stress this because when you get to the mouth of the river, you have a very extreme weather area. 96 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:23,000 And the sandbar, which is at the mouth of the river, we're going to talk about that, comes from this effect. 97 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:30,000 So the Columbia River is 1200 miles and it goes way up into Canada there into the northern Rockies. 98 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:38,000 And then all of these tributaries, I think is the word, contribute to the outflow at the Columbia River. Oh, it goes out. Okay. 99 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:44,000 So it's flowing west into the ocean. I forget what that's called. Delta. 100 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:54,000 Delta is the outlet. So sediment. So it's you'll see. You'll see. But the Columbia River is a huge collection. 101 00:08:54,000 --> 00:09:00,000 You know, Mount Rainier is in this area. The Rockies are here. All of the Pacific Northwest basically comes out of the Columbia River. 102 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:04,000 I vaguely feel like we've talked about Columbia River, this outlet being very dangerous. 103 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:10,000 Is it to recover the lighthouse on the other side of this mouth? We've talked about. 104 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:18,000 So to get back to the Oriole, and I might say this twice, the Oriole was a ship and it was commissioned by a company I'll quote later. 105 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:29,000 But the ship was responsible for building eight lighthouses on the West Coast and carrying the materials other than the brick and exterior rock stone for those lighthouses. 106 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:37,000 And it crashed at the Columbia River Bar, which is and it had supplies to build Cape Disappointment Lighthouse. 107 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:44,000 The Oriole just previously to that crash had delivered to the Alcatraz Island Lighthouse. 108 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:51,000 So it had come all the way around Cape Horn from the East Coast, the United States, with materials to build lighthouses. 109 00:09:51,000 --> 00:10:01,000 And it did crash. So I think that was our connection, because when I covered Alcatraz Island Light, I heard about the Oriole in that we actually have it quoted in my own notes. 110 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:05,000 We talked about the Oriole and then contributing to this story as well. 111 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:13,000 I know I talked about the Columbia River and I think would you this doesn't have to be included, but can you just go back to the map and zoom in and see? 112 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:17,000 Oh, the Google map. Yeah, yes, I can. Here's our map. 113 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:21,000 All right, zoom out and go the other side. Down south. Yeah. 114 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:26,000 But baby, there's one in here. Lightship Columbia. Do we talk about that? 115 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:31,000 Oh, there's your buoy. It's terrible Tilly around here or something. Tillamook Rock is north. 116 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:35,000 Oh, that's what it was. Isn't it? No, it's south. Excuse me. 117 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:40,000 OK, so that's so we have this was the other we haven't aired Tillamook Rock right now. 118 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:44,000 Oh, it's a good episode. I'm excited. Tillamook Rock and Alan and Nathan have to do it. 119 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:49,000 Look at that picture that comes up. Tillamook Rock. Terrible Tilly is going to be an awesome episode. 120 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,000 This whole area is really cool. 121 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:56,000 You guys have heard all about it, us trying to cover Tillamook and failing because of technical difficulties. 122 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:04,000 But we had a winner for a raffle of being a guest on the podcast at a party. 123 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:10,000 And we're thinking that they're going to cover those winners are going to cover Tillamook Rock with us, of course. 124 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,000 Yes, it'll be a boys episode. Oh, my gosh. Emily be pouring drinks. 125 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:18,000 All right. Yes. So here we got keep disappointment. 126 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,000 I just wanted to show this and you can read if you like. Yeah, our water. 127 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:27,000 Yellowstone's the whole area is Pacific Northwest. 128 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:30,000 So powerful water. This is a zoom in again. 129 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:37,000 So we're looking here is the lighthouse. The sandbar is formed here and it's formed by twice a day. 130 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:48,000 The tides because of the moon, which we should probably cover the history, but oh, flow outward with an extra surge of flow. 131 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:53,000 And so the the tide changing creates a sandbar under water here. 132 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,000 That's about like three miles away from the coastline. 133 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:02,000 Interesting. Or maybe five miles. So about five miles out, we're going to actually be quoting myself later. 134 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:06,000 Five miles out is when ships start to navigate around the sandbar. 135 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:12,000 OK, using Cape Disappointment and other navigational beacons of history. 136 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:18,000 So the Cape Disappointments used more as like a long distance light than a like that. 137 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:22,000 It's not it's not as much navigating you into the it is. 138 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:26,000 So Astoria is here where the label Columbia River is at. 139 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:34,000 For those of you who aren't sitting on this. And so Astoria is a major trading port and it has been for a long time as well as today. 140 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,000 There's lots of business developed here. 141 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:43,000 So the ships will go to the south and line up and then come north to avoid the bar. 142 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,000 Line up with Cape Disappointment. Yes. 143 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:50,000 And the challenge is we'll talk about I think it's the Oriole that I quoted there. 144 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:58,000 They're talking about how they've waited eight days outside of the bar for good weather and the weather. 145 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:04,000 So there's lots of fog in the area. There's lots of wind changes as well as storms, as well as you can count on the tides. 146 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:10,000 And like ships will start to come in when the tide is favorable and the winds will change. 147 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:15,000 And if it's a sailing ship of old, then all of a sudden you had power and now you don't have power. 148 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:20,000 So you start sliding into the sandbar or sliding into the landmass. 149 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:26,000 So it's a difficult area to navigate and it just can't be avoided. 150 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:31,000 Lots of people have taken efforts to life save around this area, which is still continued today. 151 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,000 We're going to talk about that too. OK. Kind of neat. 152 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:37,000 Life saving stations. That's a history book that I want to do. 153 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,000 So don't go too far in depth. OK. 154 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:46,000 So I can't take you can't take multiple subjects in one podcast episode. 155 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,000 I'm telling you, this is just a big chunk. You're stealing everything. 156 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:54,000 I'm not stealing everything. Disappointment, disappointment, disappointment, disappointment. 157 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:59,000 That's the theme. So these are my photos from a trip I took in 2014. 158 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:03,000 Wow. With my dad, my brother and some family members. 159 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:07,000 This is the trip. It's a personal story, but I took a shot of wine. 160 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:12,000 Remember that? Oh, yeah. So it's not that good of a story. 161 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:16,000 But so I cannot tell you which bridge this is. 162 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:20,000 And I looked for a long time. This is not Cape Disappointment we're looking at. 163 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,000 But this is Pacific Northwest. We went to Astoria. 164 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:31,000 We did the whole. Oh, my gosh. What's the giant national park? Mount Hood. 165 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Mount Rainier. Yeah, Mount Rainier. 166 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:40,000 The whole Olympic Peninsula. Olympic National Park. Oh, I thought there was a Rainier Rainier National Park. 167 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,000 I'm sorry. I have to go look at the map. 168 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:49,000 So I'm an idiot. Everyone that thousands, tens, hundreds of thousands of people are going to be like, yeah, bro. 169 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:54,000 Olympic National Park, Olympic National Forest. So I've been to Victoria. I've been to Port Angeles. 170 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:59,000 That's where my family was from. My dad's family, his grandparents, Squim's cool town. 171 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:05,000 For you lighthouse lovers that are also fans of Twilight. Forks is up here. Oh, my gosh. No way. 172 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:08,000 We went to Forks. Oh, those are my people. 173 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:12,000 So fantastic Blackberry pie in the summertime, by the way. 174 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:16,000 So I say all this. My dad drove us and I was a kid. 175 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:20,000 I was 18, so I didn't know where we were going. Yeah. 176 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:31,000 But this bridge, I took pictures here and the next slide of the bridge below that I wanted to express the fog that we saw the massive. 177 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:35,000 This is a very high bridge. And then this is like a whirlpool. 178 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:40,000 So this was the tide kind of slowly changing, I think. And my dad knows more about this. 179 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:43,000 I need to ask him where. Hey, where are we in this picture? 180 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:47,000 But this is a passage of fog over him standing on the bridge. 181 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:52,000 It was just really cool. It was a really neat experience. Like weather phenomena going crazy weather. 182 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:57,000 This is midsummer, like August, probably. So maybe late summer. 183 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:01,000 But crazy weather, very powerful water in the tides. 184 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:07,000 I had never experienced that being a Kansas boy, seeing the impact of rivers outflowing into the ocean. 185 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:13,000 So big impact. I just wanted to share these photos because I took them. I thought they were kind of neat. 186 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:24,000 I also took this picture, which one I keep throwing chips on the pile, but one more chip on the pile of this is near Cape Disappointment, like very nearby. 187 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:29,000 And this is, I want to say 1930s, the shipwrecked. 188 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:35,000 They stripped it of metal and then they left the frame. So the frame is still there for people to go see as a public park thing. 189 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:40,000 It's a very if you look up that beach, you'll see that thousands of pictures. 190 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:44,000 There's sunset Fort Stephen State Park. Boom. Oh, wow. 191 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:49,000 So again, things to see Lighthouse Tourism. I'm actually going to cover as its own thing coming up. 192 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:58,000 Yeah. Kind of how to. But yeah, if you're going to go see a town like Astoria, which the Goonies is based in Astoria as well. 193 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:03,000 You know, you're going to see stuff like that. So forty two thousand photos from the state park. Very highly rated. 194 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:11,000 So that's for the moment. I'm going to take a pause. But I wanted to emphasize the weather has caused quite a bit of drama. 195 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:16,000 And here we have a sketch. The sketch was created before the lighthouse was actually built. 196 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:21,000 So let's talk about it. All right. 197 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:25,000 We talked about the Columbia River Treacherous Bar. 198 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:34,000 There were two hundred and thirty four identified ships that stranded, sank or burned within the mouth of river between 1725 and 1961. 199 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:39,000 Nowadays, we're much better at navigating as well as life saving. So the kind of drop off was in the 1960s. 200 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:45,000 So this is this is a watercolor that was made from a sketch. 201 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:49,000 And what's written there, I couldn't really read it myself, but it's translated. 202 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:53,000 It's basically giving credit to who sketched it and then who did the watercolor. 203 00:17:53,000 --> 00:18:00,000 And so. The disc on top of the discovery of the Cove first. 204 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:08,000 So we have Native Americans living in the area. Then there are Spanish settlers and then there are European other European shipgoers. 205 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:16,000 So 1792, a man named Robert Gray was the first European to successfully cross the bar. 206 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:21,000 I believe he was also the first to circumnavigate the globe from Europe. 207 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:29,000 And he named the river after his ship, which is the Columbia Redaviva. 208 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:40,000 So Columbia River, the north side, we have the Cape that is this keep disappointment first named by a Spanish man, Captain John Mears. 209 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:50,000 After saying, after trying to seek shelter from a turbulent sea, 1788 years wrote, quote, disappointment continued to accompany us. 210 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:54,000 We can safely exert that no river, San Roeg exists. 211 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:58,000 He was looking for the oh, my gosh, my mind's blanking. 212 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,000 The river that crossed the United States that doesn't exist. 213 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:04,000 The Northwest Passage. Never heard of that. 214 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,000 We talked about in school many years ago. 215 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:10,000 The Northwest Passage was a river that a lot of people were looking for. 216 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:13,000 They assumed it would cross the entire continent. 217 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:24,000 Oh, that's interesting. A river that would allow ships to pass all of the inland without going around the Horn of Africa, which is treacherous, scary, long way. 218 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:27,000 So this is the 1700s. He was looking for it. 219 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:31,000 And disappointment came from his quote. 220 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:35,000 So another prominent explorer, we talked about Robert Gray. 221 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:36,000 He named it. Sorry. 222 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:43,000 Yeah, just to clarify, they named it Cape Disappointment because they were looking for this river across the continent and they didn't find it. 223 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:46,000 So they named this. That's hilarious. 224 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,000 I was wondering why they decided to name it that. 225 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,000 I was like, there's got to be some good story behind it. 226 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:59,000 Yeah, that was the original seeking shelter, looking for the Northwest Passage and Columbia River is so large that it was actually. 227 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:07,000 So these explorers had difficulty even entering the river mouth to in time just moved slow back then. 228 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:10,000 If you enter, then you get upstream. 229 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,000 The Chinook Indians were in the area. 230 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,000 So there was Indian and fur trading going on. 231 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:19,000 But how far does this river go? It wasn't really a conversation. 232 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:24,000 The Indians probably had never traveled more than, you know, maybe 100 miles. 233 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,000 I don't know. I'm guessing. 234 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,000 But no one had gone all the way up to the Canadian Rockies on this river. 235 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:32,000 So it wasn't mapped yet. 236 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:39,000 So Robert Gray, who's a prominent name to this day in that area, discovered a lot. 237 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:44,000 He was another explorer. He named the Cape Cape Hancock in 1792. 238 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:50,000 But later he named it again to disappointment when he learned that it had already been named by Captain Mears. 239 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:54,000 Oh, he's like, agreed. 240 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:58,000 So the this is in the 1700s, the early navigation area. 241 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:03,000 A white flag was placed on top of the Cape that originally marked the river entrance. 242 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:09,000 And then three prominent spruce trees were planted and those were used to line up. 243 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,000 And so when you see them line up, they were was it range lights? 244 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,000 Yeah, a range lights before there were lights. 245 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:23,000 So they would line up with these three trees five miles offshore, head for the southerly tip of the Cape to navigate through the deepest part of the river. 246 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,000 So keep them away from the rock bar. 247 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:31,000 A lighthouse was officially recommended in 1848 as one of the first on the West Coast. 248 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:35,000 OK, so. Yes, yeah, later than you would anticipate. 249 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:41,000 But if it's the first over there, then unsettled crazy west. 250 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,000 1852, a contract was entered for its construction. 251 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:52,000 Originally, there was thirty one thousand dollars, but the amount was augmented by seventy five hundred dollars due to certain modifications. 252 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:55,000 OK, which we'll talk about. Oh, modifications. 253 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,000 OK, you have seen this design before. 254 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:01,000 Oh, a reuse, but not as it was built. 255 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:05,000 Oh, so this image, I find it really interesting. 256 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:10,000 Here's why a man named Hartman Bach back. 257 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,000 Oh, I see. 258 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:16,000 He was a lieutenant member of the Army topographical engineers. 259 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:20,000 He surveyed locations for the first eight light stations that were to be constructed on the West Coast. 260 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:24,000 It was a whole new deal. So he's the one to decide where they were going to be built. 261 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,000 Yep. Nice. He. 262 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:30,000 A lot of pressure. Later, he was promoted to major also military this whole time. 263 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:35,000 He was assigned to the Lighthouse Board as inspector of the fourth district, which is this area. 264 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:43,000 Yeah, 1855, he transferred to the 12th district, which is the whole West Coast as inspector and his office was in San Francisco. 265 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:48,000 So he made quite a name for himself in the lighthouse world, especially on the West Coast. 266 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:53,000 He thought it was important to chronicle the new stations and that he traveled to the sites. 267 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,000 He made his own measurements and and drawings. 268 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:04,000 So this is a realistic view, a sketch of the area before the lighthouse was there by by him. 269 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:09,000 Oh, yeah. I see his little name. 270 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:15,000 When he returned to San Francisco, a draftsman, who's the other man named Sandgren, 271 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:20,000 rendered the drawings into watercolors. The above is a disappointment. 272 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:26,000 Nice. That man Hartman Bach is also the great grandson of Benjamin Franklin. 273 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:30,000 What? Yeah, that's wild. 274 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:36,000 And himself, he was a part of the Lighthouse Board, the aboard from 1862 to 1870. 275 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:41,000 So he was one of the OGs, US, LHS. 276 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:48,000 In recommending a lighthouse and five buoys to the channel, 277 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:52,000 William MacArthur, the US Coast Guard, wrote, quote, 278 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:56,000 The greatly increasing commerce of Oregon demands that these improvements be made immediately. 279 00:23:56,000 --> 00:24:03,000 Within the last 18 months, more vessels have crossed the Columbia River Bar than had crossed it, perhaps all the time past. 280 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:08,000 And during that time, no vessel has received the slightest injury and but few have met with much delay. 281 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:17,000 So I think he's saying that they can pass, but it's becoming a problem with traffic and also delay. 282 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:22,000 Like to be able to do good business, you need to have reliable timing. 283 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:29,000 So yeah, and people have to know what to expect to like to have to not have something consistent is problematic. 284 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,000 Right. You know, again, you'll get through sometime. 285 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:38,000 Yeah. So we've talked about them before, but there's contractors on the East Coast called Gibsons and Kelly of Baltimore, Maryland. 286 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:43,000 They're the lighthouse people of the time, the architects, engineers, builders. 287 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:50,000 So they were already starting their contract to begin and for the lighthouses out of the eight had already started construction. 288 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:54,000 Oh, wow. When they're busy, they had dispatched the Oriole to Cape Disappointment. 289 00:24:54,000 --> 00:25:04,000 September 18th of 1853, after waiting offshore for eight days and conditions for conditions to improve, the Oriole attempted to cross the bar and wrecked slightly below the Cape. 290 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:12,000 No, thirty two man crew narrowly escaped with their lives, but both the vessel and all building supplies on board were lost. 291 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:16,000 Now, originally, I had more notes. They're like talking about, oh, it went up. 292 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:21,000 It went up on its own, its ends and everything was lost. 293 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:26,000 There's pictures of it. Yeah, I think they are paintings. 294 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:30,000 So so did that affect the building of Cape Disappointment at all? 295 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:35,000 Like two year delay, two years because you have to build. 296 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:42,000 This is very specialized equipment like the like the lantern room was one of those items, the staircases. 297 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:48,000 Oh, on the ship. I thought you said the like the I thought even the lens was on the ship. 298 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:53,000 I was like, no, but they would have shipped that separately, I assume from France. 299 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:57,000 They they weren't a frontal lens design at the time. Oh, that's right. 300 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:02,000 So they were designing at this time to use. This is really cool. I've never seen this before. 301 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,000 So on the bottom left screen, you're going to see what we've seen before. 302 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:11,000 So this is an automatic oil lamp, meaning that there's a pump you set up, the pump pumps oil and it burns. 303 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,000 You have a reflector here. The image above it. 304 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:20,000 Top left is a chandelier of those assemblies. So that was the original design for the lantern room at Cape Disappointment, 305 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:25,000 as well as many other lantern or lighthouses on the West Coast. 306 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:32,000 So during construction, it took so long, plus the two year delay that they decided, you know what? 307 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,000 This is outdated and this is an important endeavor. 308 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:40,000 We're going to go ahead and use the first order for your lens before it even lit before it even lit. 309 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,000 But they said they set up the reflectors before that. 310 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:48,000 They didn't have them active, but they were they were in place. Oh, boy. 311 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,000 Yeah, yeah. And so I want to read this paragraph. 312 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,000 Expensive. Again, it was delayed. 313 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:59,000 The construction was again delayed after these two years because it was discovered that the upper diameter of the tower 314 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:04,000 was not large enough to accommodate the lantern room for the new four ton first order. 315 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:08,000 Final lens manufactured in Paris by Louis Souter and Company. 316 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:12,000 The entire tower had to be dismantled brick by brick and rebuilt. 317 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:17,000 It was on accident that the diameter is too small or they didn't think about it. 318 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:21,000 They made a mistake. They were planning on having reflectors. 319 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:27,000 So it didn't matter, which, you know, I don't know the scale of this, but it's bound to be much smaller than a first order lens. 320 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,000 But we talked about the scale of those. Yeah, definitely. 321 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:36,000 And you could adjust the size of our like a chandelier of reflectors better than a frenel lens. 322 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:42,000 You have you can't I mean, they rebuilt the lighthouse rather than get a smaller. 323 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:48,000 So. Yep. So what order is in there or was in there first first order? 324 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:56,000 OK, well, later a fourth order and the first order lens was sent to North Head Lighthouse, which is that one just just up north. 325 00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:00,000 Yeah. North Head. I haven't figured out why it's more prominent. 326 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:08,000 It was slightly newer and it became the new West Coast, the more ideal flight house. 327 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,000 Yeah. But Cape Disappointment was the original. 328 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:15,000 It's the matriarchy. So this drawing you have on the screen, that's not what Cape Disappointment looks like. 329 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,000 It's not. But that was the design. 330 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,000 So this company we just talked about, I got to go back. 331 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:23,000 Frank says, what are they? 332 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:31,000 They are the Gibson's and Kelly of Baltimore. They were contracted to draw one design that was going to be used on the East Coast. 333 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,000 And then again, on all of the West Coast, eight lighthouses at once. 334 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:35,000 They were planning on them all matching. 335 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:42,000 This is what was built at Alcatraz Island as the first lighthouse because it was built right before on the same contract. 336 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:46,000 But they couldn't build it here. And also one of the location of the camera, which one? 337 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,000 Because there wasn't enough landmass. 338 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,000 OK, yeah, because it's pretty pointy land that it's on. 339 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:58,000 If we'll go look at that, the land it's on, even in the preliminary sketch, doesn't have room for any other outbuildings. 340 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,000 He's like, get tower. Yeah, we got that. That's about it. 341 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:07,000 So this was varied upon for that reason. But this was the this was the engineer drawing. 342 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:14,000 And part of that makes me think as an engineer, that's why I mean, look at the window being adjacent to the roof like that. 343 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,000 It doesn't. That's not going to be built that way. 344 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:20,000 The chimneys are so close to the edge that might not be accurate. 345 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:24,000 You know, where is great at a very preliminary sketch. 346 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,000 I get carried away. But they're like lighthouse important. 347 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:37,000 They also assumed that in this drawing that the lighthouse was going to be on slanted ground and you'd have to accommodate the window to fit that. 348 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,000 Your window is going to be underground. 349 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,000 But the first time we looked at this, I didn't think about it. 350 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,000 Yeah. But mistakes were made. 351 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,000 I'll give them some grace. They were a little bit more engineering than me. 352 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:57,000 Oh, yeah. But where this is a story and a half dwelling split in half, you know, two different living quarters going on where this could not be erected, which is two places. 353 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:07,000 They instead did a standalone tower and separate housing kind of custom built, I will say, which probably didn't add to the cost effectiveness or speed. 354 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:13,000 So this is the OG. This is a 15 inch cannon, which we'll talk about. 355 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:19,000 The West Coast likes having really big lantern rooms compared to the size of their lighthouses or their towers. 356 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,000 Yeah. Huge lanterns like first sort of lens the size. 357 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:26,000 And it's on a cliff, as we saw. I think they said the range was 22 miles. 358 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:30,000 We're going to talk about dimensions here in a second. But there's there's three images. 359 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:36,000 This is the first one that I see. Like I smile as I'm like, this could be a rap album cover. 360 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,000 A guy with a cannon. The two guys like hanging out. 361 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:43,000 I'm going to go on the upper and I'll go on the gallery bottom. 362 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:48,000 Yeah. And then the three guys sitting casually next to a big bell. 363 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,000 You know, they sent like 20 minutes setting up for this photo. 364 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:54,000 That's hilarious. And you know, they probably just there for a long time. 365 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:58,000 Yeah. Fun thing for me. I like guns. They're interesting cannons. 366 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:04,000 These are elevation notches so they would lock a pin in one of these elevations to aim the gun. 367 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:12,000 Yeah. So if you're into cannons, you'll see that that's not super those cannon balls. 368 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,000 So I'm going to we're going to stay here. It's fine. 369 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:21,000 When Cape Disappointment was first lit, it was 1856 in October became the eighth active. 370 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:27,000 Remember October. We'll go back to that. The eighth active light on the West Coast in total. 371 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:31,000 Six of the original eight were built from the form of that tower we just saw. 372 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:36,000 And the two were integral story and a half. Same drawing, same lens. 373 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:40,000 The two that didn't work for were Cape Disappointment as shown. 374 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:46,000 And then another one, Farallon Island. I think that's near San Francisco. 375 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:50,000 Didn't look too deeply into it for the moment. They had it detached dwelling. 376 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:56,000 So yeah, a modified version quoted a considerable distance away, which will come into play. 377 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,000 What is this? This is a later design, which is why I should have come to it. 378 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,000 This is a fog bell. Right. 379 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,000 This is I think 1600 pounds. We'll talk all numbers, but it looks about right. 380 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:09,000 And oil house, but not these are not residences. 381 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:13,000 So the Brick Tower dimensions, 53 feet tall. 382 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:19,000 Focal plane is 220 feet above the sea. Wow. So pretty high. Very high up there. 383 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:25,000 Tapers from a diameter of 14 feet, four inches at its base to 10 foot six at the lantern room. 384 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:31,000 It was also fitted. This fog bell was 1600 pounds. It's a big bell. That is a big bell. 385 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:35,000 But it was useless. It's like human size. Why? 386 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:41,000 It was quoted many times as useless because and disappointing. 387 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:46,000 Because of the roar of the surf and the distance at which ships needed to hear that. 388 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:50,000 Oh, yeah. Yeah, because you said it was five miles out before people started to use it. 389 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:55,000 So no way. So in fog conditions, you'd be careful as you could. Yeah. 390 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:59,000 As a ship captain. But OK, the fog bell. 391 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,000 You need to not only hear it, but also be able to perceive a direction. Yeah. 392 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:07,000 There's a cliff below it. It's in the air, like 220 feet above you. 393 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:15,000 So the first keeper was there before the light was even lit. His name was John Boyd. 394 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:20,000 I've heard that name before. It mentioned that he was crippled, but it didn't. It never said how. 395 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:27,000 And many of the so I read a bunch of correspondence between John Boyd and our gentleman Bach, 396 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:31,000 who was promoted and he was John Boyd's supervisor in San Francisco. Yeah. 397 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:35,000 I read they corresponded all the time, which is great for history. 398 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:41,000 But and if he was an inspector, then he probably came by. He was very he seemed to be good at his job. 399 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:56,000 Yeah, very militant. Yeah. Like, for example, they talked about you shall whitewash the walls only so often as is required and not too often to deteriorate the situation, the materials, as well as spend too much money. 400 00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:02,000 And he's like, I heard a report that upon inspection, it was of outstanding appearance. 401 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:08,000 And it was like, make sure you're budgeting well. That better be at budget. In the same letter, he said you. 402 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:12,000 You are not permitted in any capacity to change. 403 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:17,000 Paraphrasing any colors of paint anywhere on this entire grounds. 404 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:23,000 And he's like this white is too white. John Boyd was like, well, we painted something that was red to white. 405 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:28,000 That way it would cast the light better into the room we're working in. 406 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:34,000 Is that acceptable? He's like, you know, white is more light casting red. And it was red. 407 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:41,000 So anyways, lots of lots of back and forth. But John Boyd was a good old boy, somehow crippled. 408 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:45,000 And I just have to get it out of the way because it is a bunch. Yeah. 409 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:49,000 But he endured a lot of hardships at Cape Disappointment, fitting the name. 410 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:54,000 And he died on duty eventually in 1865, also October. 411 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,000 What from? Didn't say. 412 00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:05,000 I don't know if it was an accident or if he was old. It sounded because he was crippled. Maybe he died of his disablement, whatever that might have been. 413 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,000 Kind of like old wound. 414 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:15,000 Something could have been a war wound. I mean, for example, these cannons were for the Civil War, which just blows my mind. 415 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:20,000 Yeah, they were. So I'm sure someone out there knows if you know. 416 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,000 Yeah. What took out Boyd died. Yeah. 417 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:35,000 If you can Google better than I can, please let me know. So he faced a lot of turmoil, both from the lighthouse, just everything that comes with managing that the sea, the weather conditions and then other keepers. 418 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:41,000 The first fall season. Remember, they just opened door in October. They just lit the light. Yeah. 419 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,000 This letter was in November. Oh, prompt. 420 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:52,000 The keepers found standing water. Excuse me. Not yet. They found standing watch in the tower unpleasant in the cool weather. 421 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:58,000 Oh, Boyd sent the following request to Hartman Bach, the lighthouse board superintendent for the West Coast and San Francisco. 422 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:05,000 Quote, as the winter advances, we find it very damp, cold and uncomfortable watching the light without a fire in the tower. 423 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:12,000 As a dwelling is situated so far from the tower, those having the watch of the light are obliged to sleep there. 424 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:19,000 Oh, we require a small stove very much and shall suffer very much without one. 425 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:24,000 Yeah. The long cold nights. Oh, my goodness. One that we could heat oil and water with be preferable. 426 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:29,000 Bach and Boyd continue correspondence. That's my that's my note because there's so many things that could have included between the two. 427 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:36,000 And there's a couple more. But he went on to argue box said, No, we can't do that. 428 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:43,000 If we do give you a stove, it'll be for a nearby building, not the tower. Another tower I've heard of. 429 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:48,000 Again, of course, paraphrasing. Yes. There's no way to install the flu for your stove. 430 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:54,000 Can't be inside at risk of oil fire. And if you flew it out through the external wall, you have to penetrate that wall. 431 00:36:54,000 --> 00:37:00,000 And also the smoke from the stove can impede the light. We just can't have that. 432 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:06,000 You know, like, yeah, they gave a lot of thought to these things. Definitely. But the answer is basically no. 433 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:11,000 So cold, cold gentleman. So now fast forward, it's the Civil War. 434 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:19,000 A couple of years later, fortifications were added. There's a fort nearby. I don't remember what it was called, but this is still a military site at the time. 435 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:23,000 OK, so you were using it for like a defense purposes. Yeah. 436 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:31,000 They had a 15 inch gun, which is shown there, discharged in 1865. 437 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:40,000 I don't know if it was to fire on a ship or if it was a test fire or what, but the concussion broke 11 panes of glass in the tower's lantern room. 438 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:48,000 No. Keeper Boyd suggested that the lighthouse should be relocated because they were not going to give up the cannon's position on this cliff. 439 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:52,000 That's stupid. And it is so close to that lighthouse. 440 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,000 There's several of them. See if I have another picture. 441 00:37:55,000 --> 00:38:00,000 I'm surprised that the force of that thing going off would shatter glass, like still a considerable distance away. 442 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:06,000 Look at this gun. This is another rap album picture. Yeah, ladies in full dress posing next to each other. 443 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:13,000 So another gun. I think that's a separate one that's nearby. But for now, we'll stay here. 444 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:27,000 So the answer was no. No changes will be made. Quote, all windows in the lighthouse buildings are to be opened and all precautions taken if possible to prevent injury to the lens lamp and other pieces of apparatus connected to the lighthouse. 445 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:31,000 Just survive the concussive force. 446 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:38,000 So here's some cannonballs. Nice. What is all this found concrete foundations stuff going on? 447 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:44,000 They talked a lot about concrete foundations in their letters. The cellars of all the buildings would fill with water. 448 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:49,000 They talked about different pumps they'd use and how in four hours they'd be full again. 449 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:53,000 So they cemented a lot of cellars and built up a lot of these areas as well. 450 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:57,000 And I think they had money to do that with the guns that came from the military. 451 00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:03,000 It was kind of a, you know, we need the lighthouse to be working. And also we got to have a good spot for our cannons. 452 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:08,000 Look at the size of those things. Let's be so heavy. How do you even live in there? 453 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:14,000 I don't know. I have no idea. There was actually a video on how to fire these guns. 454 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:21,000 Oh, so you went deep, deep on time. I've spent a lot of time learning about keep disappointment. 455 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:27,000 How to load these. That's hilarious. Yeah, they had actually a video I watched on the guys. 456 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:34,000 They still have one of these guns on like the East Coast, one of the same Civil War era 15 inch cannons. They had a cool name. 457 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:39,000 I forgot what it was called. Some last name, but like Johnson gun or something. 458 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:46,000 But I wouldn't say that's cool name. Some last name Rodman. It was a rod gun. That is better. Yeah. 459 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:52,000 That is in Dennis Rodman. Anyways, getting all the rebounds in the video. 460 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:59,000 It's a Civil War reenactment where they load it and they turn their heads and they fire and the guy pulls out the plunger and they're going to reload it again. 461 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:06,000 Except that there's no fire. There's like a bell they chime. So it's like, and then the guys, you know, recover. 462 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:13,000 Now they reload it. That's so funny. Maybe smile. Well, the force to knock out panes of glass that far up. 463 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:19,000 Weren't these guys like just knocked back to the ground? Like, I don't get it. 464 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:25,000 Well, if you think about technology at that time, they were, I mean, cannon technology. 465 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:31,000 They were literally loading powder charges and throwing a ball at the enemy. A ball of metal like. 466 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:36,000 They didn't have rockets, you know, cartridges for firearms were different, primitive. 467 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:44,000 Like, so I think there's a lot of wasted energy in the firing of a cannonball at that time compared to what we have now, of course. 468 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:50,000 But I think the concussive force would just destroy everything. I mean, people would lose hearing. 469 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:55,000 Yeah, you could probably be killed by it if you're standing at or near the barrel. 470 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:59,000 So they load it and then try and get out of the area. Yeah. 471 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:06,000 I mean, still to today, like artillery crews, I don't know much. So someone please tell us more. 472 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:11,000 But the videos I've seen, they load and when they prepare to fire, everybody basically covers. 473 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:16,000 So they duck down and cover their ears and, you know, like one guy pulls a string. 474 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:20,000 Today, it's probably electronic, but a firing mechanism. 475 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:24,000 And I think that procedure has kind of been the same for a while. 476 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:29,000 So everyone around it's military trained, but the lighthouse keepers are not really. 477 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:34,000 So they're just next to this thing. Unless it's just by habit stance that they came from that background. 478 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:41,000 I'm not aware of any civil war activity on the West Coast with ships in this Columbia River. 479 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,000 I can't imagine. I don't know of it with my historical knowledge. 480 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:52,000 I do know there's a Japanese sub that surfaced in World War II near this area, which the lighthouse is still there. 481 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,000 It's still there today. So kind of neat. 482 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,000 So this picture you have up has a lot more buildings going on. 483 00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:00,000 Every time you put you pull a picture, it's more buildings. 484 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:06,000 Yeah, this is like 1930, pretty sure. And so we have a lot a lot more going on. 485 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:10,000 The cannon is removed now because it was right here. The cannon balls were there. 486 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,000 So we're no longer at active war and the cannons are gone at this time. 487 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,000 Is there a stove in any of these buildings? 488 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:20,000 Also see that cable. So that's electricity or cell phone. 489 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,000 They installed a radio tower there. We'll talk about as well. 490 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:27,000 But is there any stove? Yeah, I don't. 491 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:34,000 Oh, yeah. Look at the chimney right there. Nice. In this building, which is I think like a watch, like a guard tower. 492 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:38,000 It's not it's not the residences because they still don't have room on this cliff for the house. 493 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:44,000 It is not the foghorn building. I believe that is because that might be like a steam. 494 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,000 Oh, you know what? You might have got me there. That might be what that is. 495 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:51,000 There wasn't a lot of tagging on this Cape Disappointment delivers. 496 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:55,000 One of the biggest annoyances, I just have to guess at some of this stuff. 497 00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,000 One of the biggest annoyances was the dwelling. 498 00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:01,000 So they talked about several feet of water in the cellar. 499 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,000 They couldn't store vegetables. It would freeze during the winter. 500 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,000 It would make everything damp. 501 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,000 Eventually, they eventually just concreted it. 502 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:14,000 So they filled the cellars, which is part of what we see here is more and more concrete everywhere. 503 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:22,000 At one time, Keeper Boyd, still on duty and the assistants didn't receive their salary for five quarters. 504 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:26,000 Yeah, they started to live off of credit. All of them. 505 00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:28,000 Oh, no. How did that happen? 506 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:33,000 You know, it was some of the letters I read and they were cordial the whole time. 507 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:36,000 But John was writing like, hey, these guys are going to give up. 508 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:49,000 You know, there's an example I'm just about to cover where someone comes to make improvements to like a carpenter comes to the house to like extend the house, make an addition. 509 00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:54,000 And he says, hey, can you guys dig post holes because the assistants are just assistants. 510 00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:57,000 And John is he's crippled. So he points and tells me what to do. 511 00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:00,000 He's very intelligent, but he's not a physical laborer. 512 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:04,000 And one of the guys does the work and the other guy is like, no, it's not my job. 513 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:11,000 He's like, what am I supposed to do with this military, you know, type of format we have and someone who just doesn't obey. 514 00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:15,000 Yeah. Now you're not paying them. Like, what do I have left? 515 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:22,000 They were also doing other activities like when the tower was first built, they had a cart and several oxen that were used. 516 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:25,000 Bach was in the letter. He's like, yeah, just hold on to them. 517 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:30,000 They may be of use, but they've already paid for maybe we'll use them in another lighthouse in the future. 518 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:32,000 Maybe so the ox. Yeah. 519 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,000 Find find a place for the oxen. Oh, yeah. 520 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:37,000 In all the room that they have on this cape. 521 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:47,000 Yeah. So they did. John was industrious and he knew local people and he got some people to watch them and then eventually a letter from Bach said, 522 00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:52,000 sell them at no less than one hundred dollars per head and sell the wagon for no less than one hundred and twenty five dollars. 523 00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:58,000 Upon selling them, you'll go to the local office and wire the money directly to, you know, my account. 524 00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:02,000 I'll take care of it. Yeah. So John was put through a lot. 525 00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:14,000 But yeah, so in the letters, I got carried away. John said, hey, the if the government is like insolvent, like if there's a there's a shutdown at the time, you know, like let us know. 526 00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:16,000 But I don't know how to manage the situation. Yeah. 527 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:21,000 And so eventually they were paid, but they were living on credit and they didn't have credit cards. Right. 528 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:29,000 So they were going to stores for rations and saying like, hey, beans and rice to survive and put it on my tab. 529 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:32,000 And the guy's like, all right, I know where you live. You know, yeah. 530 00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:39,000 Eventually I'll get paid back. So that's outrageous that they just paper records pay for. 531 00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:43,000 That's like over a year. Right. Yeah. How is that possible? 532 00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:50,000 I have quarters. I'm surprised they were still like those those are respectable men that they would stay through all of that. 533 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:55,000 And Boyd, unfortunately, I told you he died on duty. He died before that housing addition was complete. 534 00:45:55,000 --> 00:46:01,000 So that was kind of the last of his records was helping to manage that that effort. 535 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:06,000 So I wanted to show you why does it say North headlight? 536 00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:14,000 North headlight. This is the transferred. So this is a different this is not this is Cape Disappointment. 537 00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:18,000 I want to show you North headlight. They're so identical. 538 00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:25,000 Yeah. But the dwelling, I think, is behind here. I would have never guessed that those were different lighthouses. 539 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:31,000 Yeah. So cute. Was North head not North head was not one of the eight original. 540 00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:35,000 It was not. OK. But they use the same plans, obviously, as Cape Disappointment. 541 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:39,000 Yeah, they learned. I mean, financially alone, it makes sense. But look at the windows are slightly different. 542 00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:45,000 Yeah, right. So but we'll talk about this photo is kind of fun. 543 00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:52,000 I don't think I included it, but there was what they called a presidential party at the lighthouse. 544 00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:56,000 OK. But it wasn't it wasn't like I think of like a planned party. 545 00:46:56,000 --> 00:47:02,000 It was a visitation by local fine women and that were accompanied by gentlemen. 546 00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:06,000 They came out to visit the lighthouse to see what's going on out here. 547 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:11,000 Oh, what their chaperones. They brought their own ship and they docked and then. 548 00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:16,000 And they these are fine ladies dressed in fine clothes around, not just from town. 549 00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:21,000 Yeah. I want to say this is 1880. That picture was taken. 550 00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:28,000 It was before 1900. And so these hats in this fashion and like these are these are very wealthy people. 551 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:36,000 Yes. And they complemented the lighthouse and its appearance and upkeep and its social standing in the community. 552 00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:40,000 And all that was recorded and blessed by all these rich people's presence. 553 00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:49,000 It was recorded. And I just think this is one of the hardest pictures of like leaning on a 15 inch gun with your casually with your nice dresses. 554 00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:58,000 I may have to check all my dates and then this one as well, like a guy looking out with a what is that telescope telescope periscope. 555 00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:01,000 I think he is sextant, but it's a little measuring device. 556 00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:06,000 And I don't know, just hanging out. It's pretty cool. But so funny. 557 00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:10,000 Another story and for unfortunate events. One more question. 558 00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:17,000 Is that a lot is that for that there are both of them have a wire coming out the top. Is that for lightning strikes? 559 00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:21,000 That's a lightning rod. So it's grounded further away from the lighthouse. 560 00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:26,000 Yeah, grounded further away. And I assume it keeps it off of the metal that is the lantern room. 561 00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:30,000 Yeah, that would make sense. Probably helps. We mentioned that in our. Yeah. 562 00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:41,000 History, but we talked about it like how to isolate it. Yeah. Nonferrous metals are used for some of the couplers sometimes to like like aluminum or aluminum. 563 00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:48,000 And other ones. So I'm going to dip into the life saving effort. 564 00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:58,000 So in 1858, which is before this effort, assistant keeper Harrington was crossing over the river to Astoria, the city nearby. 565 00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:05,000 When it capsized his personal boat, a man on the far shore saw the assistant climb into the bottom of the upsized boat. 566 00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:11,000 Oh, and we're talking old days. Yeah. He quote sent three Indians in a canoe to rescue him. 567 00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:17,000 Sent. OK. Yeah. But before they could reach him, the boat drifted into the breakers and Harrington was never seen again. 568 00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:22,000 No way. System keeper. He's just going to get supplies. 569 00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:39,000 You're going to town for his leave, whatever it was. So many stories like that. Assistant keeper is just and never being seen again, like not even being able to find them because the areas where they have lighthouses are so such treacherous waters that it's just like, well, he's somewhere. 570 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:49,000 But well, I always think of Triangle Island because that was one of my earlier episodes I covered and like how treacherous because it's far away, but it's still northwest and it's still Pacific. 571 00:49:49,000 --> 00:50:06,000 I think of like how crazy the storms were out there. They lifted. They lifted the buildings. They knocked over chimneys like, yeah. And until they talk about like waves hitting the rocks so hard that boulders would come flying up like. 572 00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:10,000 That's mind blowing water is terrifying. This is probably a clear day. 573 00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:16,000 I imagine he's like, oh, it's a storm. I'm going to go to town. Yeah, this is not like capsized by waves. 574 00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:23,000 So keep disappointment light station was tended by Captain Joel Munson. 575 00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:32,000 He was the lighthouse center 1865 to 77 in 65 a ship called the industry wreck near the Cape. 576 00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:35,000 24 people are were on board. Only seven of them survived. 577 00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:40,000 It's because they didn't have any life saving equipment that the lighthouse keepers just saw this happen. 578 00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:53,000 Yeah. Yeah. What can you really do? And especially here where getting in the water is bad news and people wait eight days for conditions to be good enough to try to go. 579 00:50:53,000 --> 00:51:01,000 Like there's no way a keeper in some of their stories where keepers row out in their boat and save people and go back and forth. 580 00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:12,000 Like that's not possible here. Exactly what Munson wanted to do. So he was great, greatly disturbed that more people could not have been saved. 581 00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:20,000 Yeah. So he found he found a love of history. This guy found a battered longboat on the beach. 582 00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:27,000 He decided to rebuild it for use as a life saving boat. Casually found and reused. He probably stole that shit. 583 00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:33,000 Munson was an accomplished fiddler and organized two dances in the city of Astoria. 584 00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:44,000 It seems unrelated information. He charged two dollars and fifty per person and to raise over two hundred dollars at the time in the 1800s to fix up the boat. 585 00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:49,000 An old sailor helped Munson fit the boat with cork filled fenders. Kind of neat and innovative. 586 00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:56,000 And the keepers built a boathouse at the station, the lighthouse station for it. So this is the first life saving craft. 587 00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:59,000 That kept his appointment. Yep. 588 00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:11,000 So 1866, a boat called the Scranton was loaded with 800 tons of freight from San Francisco, was driven into the middle sands of the bar. 589 00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:16,000 The keeper Munson on duty launched his craft with a few other men was able to rescue the entire crew. 590 00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:23,000 Holy cow. Ironically, the captain of that ship, Paul Corno of the Scranton, 591 00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:28,000 was also one of the seven survivors of the industry that had wrecked only one year earlier. 592 00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:37,000 He was probably like, is it me? Seven survived. What are the odds? The fact that he goes out on the water is insane. Yeah. 593 00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:44,000 And he crashes at the same place. Oh crap. It is him. The bigger ship. 594 00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:49,000 So through Munson's efforts, a life saving station was established to keep his appointment in the year 1871. 595 00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:56,000 The famous craft became part of the station's initial equipment. The boat he built. He refurbished the boat. 596 00:52:56,000 --> 00:53:03,000 Is it like you can as in like it's it was like the boat. And could you see it today? Like they have it preserved. 597 00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:10,000 The tradition of life saving continues today at the Coast Guard Lifeboat Station and the training school was established on the Cape. 598 00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:17,000 Ah, very cool. You're stealing everything. That's all I gotta say. So I can't even do anything now. Oh, there's lots to cover. 599 00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:26,000 Fine. I'll still do a history book. A new in 1871 as well. Separate category. A new double dwelling was made for the keepers. 600 00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:33,000 It was built. It was 1300 feet north of the lighthouse. Each side of the duplex had 11 rooms. 601 00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:40,000 So this is a big old lighthouse operation. The principal keeper occupied one side. Eleven rooms. Ballin. 602 00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:51,000 And the two assistants shared the other. So new bell house was built that year because a gun blast from a nearby cannon shattered the old one. 603 00:53:51,000 --> 00:54:01,000 Wonder where that came from. Shattered the bell house. The station's slog bell was discontinued in 1881 and transferred to what is now West Point Lighthouse and the Puget Sound. 604 00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:11,000 Okay. Which I was like West Point? Like no, not that one. But you know, the Military Academy. No, I don't know. But well, let me look it up. No. Before I misquote myself. 605 00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:21,000 West Point. I know people who went there. Yeah, it's in New York. Yeah. Puget Sound's in Washington. Okay. Just had to make sure. Oh, you clutch your pearls. Had to check myself. 606 00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:35,000 So I'm going to slide. Oh, we're here. This is the party. James Anderson served as assistant keeper for several years before being promoted to headkeeper at a different lighthouse. Four years there. He returned and he was the headkeeper at Cape Disappointment. 607 00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:44,000 On purpose or did they assign him to Cape Disappointment? He replaced Munson when Munson retired. Oh, I see. And he already knew the stuff. So he already knew the lighthouse. 608 00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:55,000 I just wonder if this is like somewhere people don't want to be. It sounds like a challenging but respected place. Yeah. Well, if they're having fancy lady parties, then. 609 00:54:55,000 --> 00:55:00,000 Yeah. Life saving. Yeah. 610 00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:15,000 So he was 17 years at the lighthouse. Anderson and some of his entries are as follows. 1881. Marriage at the lightkeeper's dwelling house. James Anderson to Henrietta Sorensen. 611 00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:30,000 Light breeze from the southwest. Very warm. James was 54 years old. Henrietta was 24 years old. Oh, yikes. It was a beautiful day. 1883. A more beautiful sunset could never have been witnessed as last night. 612 00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:43,000 So brilliant clouds and horizon all around for great distance with all imaginable colors and kinds. And every day I could behold for about 20 minutes after the setting of the sun when all changed. 613 00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:51,000 Change lighthouse lamp and burner. Oh, 1883. I thought you were going to say that like it had stormed or something. 614 00:55:51,000 --> 00:56:02,000 Two days later. Born at the lightkeeper's dwelling at 3 a.m. to the wife of James Anderson, a daughter. In the lighthouse. In the keepers cottage? Yep. Ten months later. 615 00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:13,000 Infant daughter of James Anderson and Henrietta Anderson died at 4 a.m. The fort was called Fort Canby, by the way. She was age nine months, 26 days. Peace be with her soul. 616 00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:24,000 And 1885. Died at keepers dwelling house. Infant child of James Anderson. Four o'clock p.m. Henrietta Marie Anderson. Age five months, 15 days. 617 00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:35,000 Do they say what from these deaths? I don't think they knew in the 1800s. You know, he just died. You know, sudden instant, was it SIDS? Yeah. 618 00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:45,000 Infant death. Yeah. Or could have had birth anomalies or could have been the weather. It's cold. You know. Yeah. I don't know. So it makes me sad. 619 00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:57,000 Big bummer. The point of that on those entries was that there was a big variation in what was happening at that lighthouse. So what is this? Oh, North Head. Yeah. So North Head in its final and stilted today. 620 00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:07,000 This is what it looks like. It's different. I know. It's not as nice as it was. I think they had more money and I don't know the full story, but I just it's more official. Yeah. 621 00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:16,000 But this little fourth order, these are red panes of glass. It's black and white, but these are red panes. This is what replaced the first order lens at Cape Disappointment. 622 00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:30,000 Red and white flashing. That's fun. The original one was flashing or fixed. Solid white, I think. OK. That would make sense if you were trying to line up to it and come into the come into the mouth of the river. 623 00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:44,000 What is that called? The into the Cape. The Cape was like an inlet. Yeah. Like a like a subtraction of earth. I feel like there's a name. Yeah. I feel like there's some kind of name for it, but whatever. 624 00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:52,000 So the first order lens that we're talking about is still on display at the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center Cape Disappointment. Oh, fun. 625 00:57:52,000 --> 00:58:03,000 The black band, which is not shown in this image, but it's now shown on today's Cape Disappointment that was added in 1930 to distinguish it separately from North Head. 626 00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:11,000 I just forgot about it. It's white and then a large black band in the middle. Yep. And North Head is only two miles away. Oh, yeah. That's nice. 627 00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:25,000 Toyota Tacoma. I think the point of this is this is a modern current photo. So what's on the far side of the lighthouse? There's a building there that looks new or like military kind of like a radio station. 628 00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:44,000 It is. So they call it a Class C radio beacon. I don't know what that means, but a class. It was established in 1936 at Cape Disappointment. The lighthouse the following year, the light was electrified. So 1937 light was electrified, but it wasn't automated. 629 00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:59,000 And so it stayed that way for 30 years. In the 60s, the Coast Guard was going to discontinue it. It said that there are other range lights now in the area. Protests, of course. Let's go protest by the Columbia River Bar pilots. 630 00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:06,000 You can make it different. Which are an important group still to today in this area to keep the light in service because they knew it. They don't change stuff. 631 00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:17,000 Yeah, light was automated in 1973, but which is pretty late. But the original icon of the Northwest Lighthouses still equipped with its fourth order lens remains active to today. 632 00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:23,000 Ah, so has a for now. It's love that spinny red and white fourth order. 633 00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:37,000 So, and you can. I showed you that first image. That was kind of a drone image. I got another one for you. This is kind of a drone image too, I guess. But this we just look from the other side. Now this side. This is so pretty. Dead man's cove. 634 00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:44,000 It's very scary land. Wow. That's great picture. So this is, oh, look a man. 635 00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:53,000 This is nearby there. I didn't want to cover it because there's too much detail. You can look it up on your own if you're interested. There's a hike. 636 00:59:53,000 --> 01:00:02,000 And then up along the trail. You can also be in dead man's cove. There's like a tree in the middle of the water. It's really pretty. And of course, tide comes in and out. 637 01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:15,000 But this is a beautiful area to hike in. You have the evergreens going all the way up to the coast. And there are some really dramatic pictures here of different waves breaking, you know, pretty noisy area. Yeah. 638 01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:18,000 So I just think that's super cool. 639 01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:26,000 We have a giveaway. Let's go. You made it this far. You might win. We appreciate you all. 640 01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:38,000 So that is that is my story. And I've seen so much and it's been like a week of learning about Cape Disappointment Lighthouse that I included only a couple items. 641 01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:48,000 We could probably talk like a three part on this. So especially when you get your hands on like keepers entries and like correspondence and stuff, it's easy to go down the rabbit hole. 642 01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:58,000 Well, I got to give a shout out of one lighthouse friends, of course, a great source, but to the I saw they cited a source which was from USA LHS. 643 01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:06,000 A paper was written in 2005. You went deep into the whole thing, man. And some of these images came from there. 644 01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:14,000 They just did a great job. I know it's a historical society. So like I mentioned last time, they changed their website. So now it's a lot easier to research on it. 645 01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:22,000 Yeah. And so they did a good job with that. So they do a good job. We really appreciate it. But it's just a beautiful part. 646 01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:32,000 I wanted to say I started with all I was going to cover today was the Orioles crash. Right. Because it was like, oh, it was a ship that was delivering lighthouse parts and it crashed. 647 01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:40,000 That's funny. And then they built a lighthouse right next to where it crashed. It's funny. I didn't know all the connections. And then I was like, oh, I've got to talk about Cape Disappointment. 648 01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:44,000 So that's what episode I'm so glad we finally covered that because we've talked about it a lot. 649 01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:54,000 How often do I get to use my own pictures? Huh? Oh, yeah. So thank you all for listening and follow us. 650 01:01:54,000 --> 01:02:08,000 Send us a share on the Amy platform. But I give away officially open when this baby drops and then we're going to pick a winner on Christmas Day as a we'll have an episode dropping there, too. 651 01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:16,000 It'll just be a little one, a little cute one. But we'll be announcing the winner of our giveaway and then we'll ship for free anywhere within the U.S. 652 01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:23,000 Sorry to all of our international friends. We do have a lot of international friends. Yeah. Canada is high up there as well. 653 01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:40,000 Canady, as I like to say. All right. Yeah. Close this out. Yeah. Follow us on Instagram and you can listen to us on Spotify, Apple, Google, anywhere. Listen to your podcast or on the Lighthouse.com where you can also leave us a review. 654 01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:47,000 Please do it. We love to read reviews. We had a couple more people leave voicemails. 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