Further down the coast...
Great interpretative centre where we saw a live whale in the ocean, stuffed ones to purchase...
...and bones of one!
Cape Blanco Lighthouse on a blustery, cold, foggy morning!
Battle Rock City Park, Port Orford, Oregon coast.
Capt. William Tichenor of the Steamship Sea Gull landed nine men on June 9, 1851, for the purpose of establishing a white settlement. This resulted in deadly conflict between the two cultures. For two weeks the nine were besieged on the island now called Battle Rock. Under cover of darkness, the party escapted north to Umpqua City. In July, Capt. Tichenor again arrived with a well-armed party of seventy men and established the settlement now called Port Orford.More than 150 years later, men still do battle on this shore!
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