Most people know Astoria, Washington for various movies that were filmed there.This spring while Dan was working in Seaside, I decided to take a tour of some things in Astoria. On the top of my list were: #1 - the house where Goonies was filmed (seen below)
and #2 - where the Columbia River and Pacific Ocean meet, which is a pretty awesome sight to see.
Here is a zoomed in view of a boat of some sort making it's way into the Pacific.
The zoomed out view. The tiny spec kindof in the middle there - that's the same boat.
To get to this spectacular view, lots of twisty roads, not great signs and a one mile hike are required. It leads to what is known as Cape Disappointment. There are a couple of theories on how it got this name, and no one is sure which is true. Some say the cape was named on April 12, 1788 by British fur trader John Meares who was sailing south from Nootka in search of trade. After a storm, he turned his ship around just north of the Cape and therefore just missed the discovery of the Columbia River.
Others believe the cape may have been named in Nov. 1805 by a member of the Lewis & Clark Expedition,
which had recently succeeded in reaching the Pacific, when he found no ships in the vicinity, according to the journal of the expedition as recited in the Ken Burns documentary. Whatever the reason for the name - the view was well worth the trip!
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