For our second major adventure of the day we left the hotel and went to Washington. Only 40 minutes away Cape Disappointment state Park promised trails, beautiful views, beaches and two lighthouses. It delivered on all counts though we didn't walk down to the beach this time (one soaking per day is enough) we walked two wonderful nature filled trails each leading to a lighthouse and a beautiful view.
This area is still run by the US Coast Guard, one of the light houses (the second picture) is still a working lighthouse with the light going round and round just like the old days and the other (first pictured) doesn't go round but has added signal lights all around to warn ships and had a member of the Coast Guard in an outlook post with the largest binoculars I have ever seen at the time we were there.
The cape was named by a British fur trader in 1788, he was looking for the Columbia River and not finding it he turned around at the cape thereby giving it the name Cape Disappointment. Little did he know if he had only gone a couple more miles he would have been at the mouth of the river.
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