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South Jetty, Clatsop Spit, Oregon.
Image taken September 27, 2009.
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Clatsop Spit ...
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In the fog, Clatsop Spit, South Jetty, and Clatsop Beach, Oregon.
Image taken October 18, 2009.
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South Jetty ...
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From "Columbian.com" website, 2009 (by Erik Robinson, July 23, 2009):
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"... Work on the 6½-mile-long south jetty started in 1886 and was completed in 1913. The shorter north jetty, 2½ miles long, was built in 1917. ..."
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Pacific Ocean, South Jetty, Clatsop Spit, Oregon.
Image taken September 27, 2009.
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Waves, Pacific Ocean, South Jetty, Clatsop Spit, Oregon.
Image taken September 27, 2009.
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Fishing, Pacific Ocean, South Jetty, Clatsop Spit, Oregon.
Image taken September 27, 2009.
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Early Clatsop Spit ...
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From the 1858 U.S. Coast Survey:
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The beach around Point Adams and to the southward some distance is usually called Clatsop beach. Upon it, many years ago, before the whites occupied the country, a Chinese or Japanese junk, with many hands and a cargo of beeswax, was cast ashore and went to pieces; but the crew were saved. In support of this Indian tradition, there are occasionally, after great storms, pieces of this wax thrown ashore, coated with sand and bleached nearly white. Formerly a great deal was found, but now it is rarely met with. Belcher mentions having a specimen [webnote, 1839]. Many people on the Columbia possess them, and we have seen several pieces. ..."
From the 1889 U.S. Coast Pilot:
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Stretching out from Point Adams is the great shoal known as the Clatsop
Spit, whose normal direction points towards Cape Disappointment. It
frequently stretches more than half way across the mouth of the irver, and
is then usually marked by the breakers around its whole extent, except in
exceedingly smooth weather and at high water. But there have been periods
when its northern edge stretched straight out to sea, and then swept in
far to the southward of Point Adams.
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The beach around Point Adams and to the southward for some indefinite
distance is locally known as the Clatsop Beach.
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From the 1917 U.S. Coast Pilot:
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"... Clatsop Spit is a low sand beach extending from Point Adams,
a distance of 2 1/2 miles toward Cape Disappointment. It was formerly
subject to extensive shifting, but the construction of the south jetty has
fixed it in postion.
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Flavel, on the northeast side of Point Adams, is the terminus of a
line of large steamers plyling between the Columbia River and San
Francisco. It has railway connection with the interior. The wharf, which
has deptsh of over 30 feet at low tide, is marked by a light (fixed white)
at its outer end.
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Columbia River from Clatsop Spit ...
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Columbia River, as seen from Clatsop Spit, Oregon.
Cape Disappointment is on the far side of the Columbia.
Image taken September 27, 2009.
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Views along the South Jetty ...
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South Jetty, Clatsop Spit, Oregon.
Weather overcast and grey, but surprisingly no rain.
Image taken August 8, 2009.
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South Jetty, Clatsop Spit, Oregon.
Weather overcast and grey, but surprisingly no rain.
Image taken August 8, 2009.
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South Jetty viewing platform, Clatsop Spit, Oregon.
Weather overcast and grey, but surprisingly no rain.
Image taken August 8, 2009.
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Brown Pelicans, South Jetty, Clatsop Spit, Oregon.
Weather overcast and grey, but surprisingly no rain.
Image taken August 8, 2009.
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Trestle Bay (Jetty Lagoon) ...
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Trestle, Trestle Bay, Clatsop Spit, Oregon.
The South Jetty is visible behind the old Trestle, and the Washington end of the Astoria-Megler Bridge is in the background.
Weather overcast and grey, but surprisingly no rain.
Image taken August 8, 2009.
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Cape Disappointment from Clatsop Spit ...
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Cape Disappointment, Washington, as seen from Clatsop Spit, Oregon.
Image taken September 27, 2009.
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Columbia River from Clatsop Spit ...
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Columbia River view, as seen from Clatsop Spit, Oregon.
From left to right --- Point Ellice, the Astoria-Megler Bridge, Tongue Point, Astoria, Youngs Bay, and Point Adams way off on the right.
Weather overcast and grey, but surprisingly no rain.
Image taken August 8, 2009.
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From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...
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