Showing posts with label abandoned fort. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abandoned fort. Show all posts

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Cape Disappointment Battery, Washington

Approaching the first building as we head up to battery

windows in earth



my munchkin somewhat less enamored then i


The roof inside the first building









views of the dirt hill behind and i guess coming into the building













Cape Disappointment on a rainy day. Frogs living in the base of a former gun turret amongst rusting gears. life s mossy and gray , the ocean somewhat in and beyond the fog. marshy land surrounding the hill with it's inner fort sunken into it, underneath it , entrenched in it. it's hard to say how much of this land mass has underlying concrete construction, signs of foundations succumbed to the greeness of nature are like an ancient grave site. is that why i like ruins and graveyards- both sunken into the earth neither at the foregrounds of our thoughts or lives. This location disappointed lewis and Clark for they were sick of eating pounded dried fish. their tummies ached and they had diarrhea. Hunting was unsuccessful.  unimpressed with the Columbia's meeting of the pacific.
the approach to the first entrance to battery

one of the three exits we could access from within battery

Thursday, January 21, 2010

fort worden state park, wa














now i am not at all sure what the red dripping stuff is- iron rich water i guess.
i have never seen a building bleed in such a way.
tiggy the adventure dog











so tiggy freaked out at one point when we started going down this one tunnel that was dark damp and had a metal door that was freely open. we walked into the pitch blackness , i flashing my camera which added to the creepiness . he got out of his leash and all and got stuck between us, we quickly retreated.