Other pictures from my weekend Tillamook getaway
Thu Dec 11, 2008 2:55 pm
Leaving Washington
This is where I stayed Saturday night. Yep, that's the Pacific Ocean.
Here is some of the scenery on Hwy 101 between Tillamook and Astoria
This is where I stayed Saturday night. Yep, that's the Pacific Ocean.
Here is some of the scenery on Hwy 101 between Tillamook and Astoria
Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:19 pm
Some of the photos are awesome!
Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:29 pm
That's a great shot with the Dog!
Do you mind if I borrow it? I've been shooting dogs in cars lately...collecting them so to speak.
Do you mind if I borrow it? I've been shooting dogs in cars lately...collecting them so to speak.
Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:43 pm
Ztex wrote:That's a great shot with the Dog!
Do you mind if I borrow it? I've been shooting dogs in cars lately...collecting them so to speak.
I suppose. Her name is Cash and she's my new roommate.
Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:44 pm
b29flteng wrote:Some of the photos are awesome!
Only some?
Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:48 pm
spookythecat wrote:b29flteng wrote:Some of the photos are awesome!
Only some?
ALL of your photos are awesome, Spooky! Fantastic. For a non-pro photographer, you take really nice photos. Have you ever had any formal training in photography?
Ah, I love the Northwest!
Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:10 pm
warbird1 wrote:spookythecat wrote:b29flteng wrote:Some of the photos are awesome!
Only some?
ALL of your photos are awesome, Spooky! Fantastic. For a non-pro photographer, you take really nice photos. Have you ever had any formal training in photography?
Ah, I love the Northwest!
Nope. it's just me and my Canon point'n'shoot.
Thu Dec 11, 2008 11:29 pm
One of those pics looks like it was taken from Cape Lookout. Did you go looking for the B-17 crash site?
Fri Dec 12, 2008 12:45 pm
Hal B wrote:One of those pics looks like it was taken from Cape Lookout. Did you go looking for the B-17 crash site?
Tell me more!
Fri Dec 12, 2008 4:38 pm
We stood in some of the exact same places - I have some photos from my trip out West in 2005 that are nearly identical to a few of yours (sunnier day though). I must have drove down the same highway from Seattle on my way to Tillamook. The big rocks in the ocean should look familiar to any Goonies fan...
Now what's this about a crashed B-17?
Zack
Now what's this about a crashed B-17?
Zack
Fri Dec 12, 2008 11:44 pm
spookythecat wrote:Hal B wrote:One of those pics looks like it was taken from Cape Lookout. Did you go looking for the B-17 crash site?
Tell me more!
Well, if you were at Cape Lookout and were to decide to take a walk out to the end of the cape, you would pass very near a B-17 crash site.
Is that enough?
By the way, that's a nice looking new "room-mate" you've got.
Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:09 am
Zachary wrote:Now what's this about a crashed B-17?
Zack
Ok, I just can't let Spooky and Zack hang like I did in my last post
A B-17 didn't quite clear the ridge that forms the spine of Cape Lookout in bad weather, 1943? All on board killed except one. A memorial plaque has been placed along the Cape Lookout trail about 1/2 mile from the trailhead and about 1/4 mile from the crash site. The first time I was there about 20 years ago, I couldn't find anything until I started looking at the tops of the larger trees in the area and found some with still noticable damage. After that, it became pretty easy to find bits and pieces of wreckage within a few feet of the trail. The second time I was there about 5 years later, my nephews and I located a chunk of wing down a gulley, but it was a pain to get to and even worse to get back to the trail. The last time I was there about 10 years back, we found a chunk of metal still hanging in one of the large trees, I've got a fuzzy picture of that around here somewhere. Everytime I've been there, its been obvious that a lot of folks know the location of the wreck as small stuff seems to move around a lot. Oregon Public TV did a program on the accident years ago, though I've never seen it. And the museum at Tillamook has some of the larger pieces from the a/c (wheel and brake assy, IIRC) though they didn't have it on display the last time I was there.
Do a Google search for B17 and Cape Lookout and see what pops up.
I'm sure that someone will complain about my posting the location of an historic wreck site, but they can go pack sand. It's location has been known ever since it went in; the wreck is listed in at least one hiking guide book, is very accessible and there really isn't much left for anyone to pilfer anyway. And what is left consists of small, corroded bits of metal. So there...