I first saw this in June, 2012 when I snapped this photo of a strange object on the beach. It gathered quite a crowd of people.
So...anybody recall this?
[Edited on 3-25-2013 by Pompano]elgatoloco - 3-25-2013 at 11:09 AM
Tsunami debris.................Pompano - 3-25-2013 at 11:13 AM
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Originally posted by elgatoloco
Tsunami debris.................
Hah...that'll teach me to hide the photo description! Which I just did...
Yes, but what and where?elgatoloco - 3-25-2013 at 11:20 AM
I saw no description. Honest. I just recall the news item from up in Oregon or Washington where the local city had to spend big bucks they had not
planned on to have the floating dock (?) cut up and hauled away and that the feeling was that many others were going to have to deal with similar
situations in the future.............and hopefully no radiation involved.
I could be wrong or course. It could happen. I thought I was wrong once but turns out I was mistaken. Just ask my wife. vandenberg - 3-25-2013 at 11:24 AM
Tsunami debri.
Cost a bundle to get it removed. Latest pic I saw was it hanging from a giant crane.
Also a big worry about foreign critters getting introduced to our west coast.Pompano - 3-25-2013 at 11:29 AM
Yes, indeed you are right, elgatoloco. (and probably your wife, too.)
This event made national headlines when this floating dock debris from the Japan tidal wave found it's new home at Agate Beach, Oregon Coast.
Too much tonnage even for all those tourists to take home!
Guess I'll hunt around for something a bit harder to guess...Loretana - 3-25-2013 at 12:14 PM
June 7th, 2012.......the tsunami dock that washed up on Agate Beach near Newport, Oregon.....
(hey that reminds me, I sure miss SharksBaja's posts!)
his restaurant is in NewportPompano - 3-25-2013 at 12:25 PM
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Originally posted by Loretana
June 7th, 2012.......the tsunami dock that washed up on Agate Beach near Newport, Oregon.....
(hey that reminds me, I sure miss SharksBaja's posts!)
his restaurant is in Newport
Superb research, Loretana, and you're spot on.
SharksBaja...Yeah, I miss his posts, too.
Co-Pilot and I stopped and had a great time w/delicious lunch at his 'Sharks' café near the waterfront in Newport two years ago. A very nice guy
whose vacation dream home on the river in Mulege was destroyed in a flood. Such a trajedy for him and many others.
He runs a great place in Newport and I'll be stopping by again soon.
[Edited on 3-25-2013 by Pompano]vgabndo - 3-25-2013 at 12:32 PM
He can speak for himself, and I assume he is still lurking. Last I heard, the restaurant was closed. I do have good reason to believe he's still
licking his wounds from having been pounded off the peninsula by the effects of climate change. His losses were greater than my own.
I miss him too.
The great North Pacific Garbage Patch seems to still be sucking-up the vast majority of the debris from Japan. (another natural disaster which helps
put it all in perspective.)
I cross-posted with Pompano...I hope is info is current and that when my friends visited, it was a temporary closure.
[Edited on 3-25-2013 by vgabndo]Pompano - 3-25-2013 at 12:50 PM
Loretana and vgabndo,
Just edited my post concerning SharksBaja café as to when visited. My medical handicap prohibited a return this season when on the coast. Sorry to
hear of a café closure.
Now here's a new Photo Quiz.
Can you tell me what and where? Hint: This one is the oldest of it's kind still standing.
And another oldest of it's kind...can you guess what and where?
And another oldest of it's kind...can you guess what and where?
This is gonna be easy for some Baja travelers.
[Edited on 3-25-2013 by Pompano]vgabndo - 3-25-2013 at 01:25 PM
A Hop House in eastern Washington?Bajagypsy - 3-25-2013 at 01:30 PM
Is the grain elevator in Saskatchewan? If so Northern, or Southern Sask? The old elevator in Blaine Lake looked like that one.Timo1 - 3-25-2013 at 01:31 PM
I'm thinking grain elevator sask. ???
Looks like a Masonic lodgePompano - 3-25-2013 at 01:54 PM
No, vgabndo... on the hops bldg. guess...close but no cigar.
Yes, Gypsy and Timo...on the oldest standing grain elevator in the province of Saskatchewan.
Now...how about that other building?CortezBlue - 3-25-2013 at 03:39 PM
A cargo container that holds half of David K's posts?Pompano - 3-25-2013 at 04:58 PM
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A cargo container that holds half of David K's posts?
A resounding.... NO.
p.s. But DK should know where this is...being it's a mission and all. This one was built without using one single nail.
[Edited on 3-26-2013 by Pompano]Loretana - 3-25-2013 at 05:17 PM
OMG! the dungeness crab and the steamer clams have got me salivating.....
I'm heading over to Uwajimaya right now!
Not that I wouldn't love to be back in Loreto right now.
That two week spring break vacation quickie was such a tease!!
David K - 3-25-2013 at 05:34 PM
Really, I am interested in the California peninsula missions and that alone is enough missions for me! Max wrote all of the Upper California mission
details. Thanks anyway... BajaBruno - 3-25-2013 at 07:21 PM
Cataldo Mission, Idaho. That was a tough one.Skipjack Joe - 3-26-2013 at 03:51 AM
Cataldo Mission? Baitcast should get that one. He grew up in the area.
I, too, miss sharksbaja. Hope he makes it back to nomads. His posts were usually informative and a pleasure to read. I still remember the sharks quiz
he gave us. The one in which nobody knew all 8 species. It's been what? 5, 6, 7 years now, I guess.Pompano - 3-26-2013 at 08:30 AM
Cataldo Mission is correcto!
History courtesy of Mother Internet:
In the early 19th century, the Coeur d'Alene Indians had heard of these powerful "medicine men" in black robes with a book and wanted some of these
men for their own tribe. (A fateful decision, I should say.) They sent men east to St. Louis, and in 1842 Father Pierre-Jean De Smet responded to the
request and came to the area. Fr. Nicholas Point and Br. Charles Duet came and helped to pick a mission location. The first was along the St. Joe
River, but was subject to flooding. In 1846, they moved it to the current location.
In 1850, the church was taken over by Antonio Ravalli, who began designing the new mission building. He made sure that the building was constructed by
the Indians themselves, so that they could feel part of the church. (Labor cost, maybe?) It was built using the wattle and daub method, and was
finished some three years later, without using a single nail.
In time, the mission became an important stop for traders, settlers, and miners taking on the role as a hospitality and supply station. It was also a
working port for boats heading up the Coeur d'Alene River.
In 1961, it was designated a National Historic Landmark, and in 1966 was put on the National Register of Historic Places.
Located about 28 miles east of Coeur d' Alene, this is the oldest standing building in Idaho ...with some runner-ups in Wallace.
