Cape Disappointment Lighthouse

So as I posted before we visited the Northhead Lighthouse but have never walked up to the Cape Disappointment Lighthouse because it has always been raining making the path hard to navigate, however we waited for a nice day and a dry path. We were not disappointed in the views. 

This is a picture of the ships from the coast guard station.

This is a cove that the Chinook Native Americans would paddle their canoes into to visit the area.

Here are a couple of vies of the lighthouse, it definitely could use a new paint job but \i have a feeling you could probably paint every year because the wind and the rain in this area takes a beating on it. This was the first lighthouse built in the Pacific Northwest, In 1852 they built the lighthouse and ordered a lens but when it arrived it was too big for the tower and it took another two years to rebuild it. The lighthouse was electrified in 1937 and was in service until 1973.

 

The cars are from the coast guard base, they can drive up from the base, while the rest of us have to walk.

This is the view of the North Jetty at the mouth of the Columbia