Yaquina Lighthouses - Yaquina Bay Lighthouse Oregon

'Situated at Yaquina, is an old deserted lighthouse. Its weather-beaten walls are wrapped in mystery. On an afternoon when the fog comes drifting in, it is the loneliest place in the world.'
So begins Lischen Miller's tale, 'The Haunted Lighthouse,' published in an 1899 issue of Pacific Monthly.
The Yaquina Bay Lighthouse, a charming two-story clapboard structure, is located on a hill overlooking the northern side of the entrance to Yaquina Bay. It was deserted a mere three years after its light was first lit in 1871, and ever since has been the scene for many a ghostly tale.
Today Yaquina Bay Light is in excellent condition and furnished with period pieces. If you take a tour, you will most likely hear a ghost tale or two.

Yaquina Lighthouses - Yaquina Bay Lighthouse Oregon


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Oregon's Seacoast Lighthouses - Yaquina Bay Lighthouse - Old and New

Yaquina Bay State Park is located in Newport at the north end of Yaquina Bay near its outlet to the Pacific Ocean. The bluff is forested with spruce and pine, but the real star is the Historic Yaquina Bay Lighthouse, built in 1871. This piece of Oregon's history sits atop a bluff at the mouth of the Yaquina River.
Yaquina Bay Light is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It is the only existing Oregon lighthouse with the living quarters attached, and the only historic wooden Oregon lighthouse still standing.
On December 7, 1996 Yaquina Bay Lightstation was officially restored as a privately maintained aid to navigation.

Oregon's Seacoast Lighthouses - Yaquina Bay Lighthouse - Old and New


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North Head Lighthouse - Graveyard of the Pacific - Ilwaco WA

Tucked behind Cape Disappointment at the mouth of the Columbia River Ilwaco, Washington sits at the confluence of history and cultures.
Before there were lighthouses on the the Long Beach Peninsula, ships bound for Portland and Astoria navigated their way through the high waves and shifting sandbars, focusing on fluttering white flags and notched trees along the shoreline by day and flickering signal fires by night. These methods were crude at best and, despite heroic efforts, the sea offshore the Peninsula became known as 'The Graveyard of the Pacific'.
Cape Disappointment Lighthouse, built in 1856, helped to secure the coast. However, ships approaching the Columbia River from the north could not see the Cape Disappointment Light until it was too late to enter the river channel.
That's why, in 1898, North Head Lighthouse was added at Beard's Hollow.
Walk right up to North Head's 65 feet tall lighthouse tower, a very pleasant and serene place. Hear the history of this pituresque century-old lighthouse as you make the trip to the top, and enjoy the breath taking panoramic view of the Peninsula and Pacific Ocean.

North Head Lighthouse - Graveyard of the Pacific - Ilwaco WA


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North Head Lighthouse - Ilwaco on Washington's Southwest Coast

2 miles south of Ilwaco, Washington, just north of the Washington/Oregon border lies Cape Disappointment State Park, home to two lighthouses: Cape Disappointment Lighthouse (1856) and North Head Lighthouse (1898) at Beard's Hollow.
North Head is the windiest lighthouse area on the West Coast and the second windiest in the nation. Winds of 120 miles per hour have been recorded at the site. The lighthouse itself is only sixty-five feet tall, but it sits on a bluff 130 feet high overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The light of its modern marine style beacon, which is still in use today, is visible 17 miles out to sea.
North Head Light is one of the oldest, most picturesque lighthouses on the Pacific Coast.

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Shelf Fungus on bark - Quinault temperate rain forest - Olympic Peninsula, WA

Take a mild coastal climate, which rarely freezes in winter or goes above 80 degrees in summer, add a good dose of rain (say 12 feet (3,50 meter) or so a year), add some summer fog and you have the ingredients for a rare temperate rain forest.
With so few temperate rain forests in the world, those found in the Pacific Northwest, e.g. in Washington's Olympic National Park, take on a very special role as a valuable ecosystem.
Quinault temperate rainforest is moist enough that mosses and fungi can grow on the trunks of trees.
The fungi we see are only the tip of the iceberg; most of the fungus consists of tiny strands (hyphae) spreading through the wood or the soil. Only when it is time for reproduction does the fungus produce a fruiting body, which appears on the surface for the sole purpose of propagating spores to spread the fungus to new areas.

Shelf Fungus on bark - Quinault temperate rain forest - Olympic Peninsula, WA


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Quinault Valley Olympic Peninsula WA - Exposed Root Structure of a Giant Tree

Quinault in the valley formed by the Quinault River and Lake Quinault on the Olympic Peninsula in the State of Washington is called the "Valley of the Rain Forest Giants". The largest trees in the World outside of California's Redwoods are located in this valley. Record size Western Red Cedar, Sitka Spruce, Western Hemlock, Alaskan Cedar and Mountain Hemlock are found in the forest as well as five of the top ten largest Douglas-firs.

Solitude, serenity, beauty, peacefulness and myself. These are some of the things I find in Quinault.The silence of a place so padded with mosses, fringed by ferns, flanked by giant trees and roots is almost complete. This isolated area is one of my all-time favorite places.

Quinault Valley Olympic Peninsula WA - Exposed Root Structure of a Giant Tree


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