Benchmarks

We had our annual church campout at Fort Stevens State Park this past August. Lots of friends, fun, and sun. Only a little bit of rain one night and some misting for a few minutes here and there. Not bad for five days on the Oregon Coast.

One of the fun things to do there is to go see the Battery Russell. It is an decommissioned battery that was used during World War II to guard the Oregon coast and the entrance to the Columbia River. It was the only mainland location in the USA that was attacked during WWII. Shots were fired at it from a Japanese submarine - and they did not return fire. Some accounts say that they didn't want to confirm their location, and others say the sub was out of reach of their guns.

While we were exploring this time, I found a couple of benchmarks. These are locations were the position of the point is know - usually both in the horizontal and vertical positions. Surveyors can use these point to locate other locations bases on the distance and angle from the benchmark.

So anyway - taking photos of benchmarks is one of those strange quirks I have. Someday I could publish a coffee table book of the benchmarks. Yep - that would be a big seller.

Benchmark on top of the Battery Russell

Benchmark near Battery Russell, on the wall of a small bunker

So anyway - no big story here. Just wanted to let you see some places we've been recently. From a different perspective.

Yard work update... grass cutting #16 was on August 26th and #17 on September 8th. With just the few days of rain recently - the grass has started to grow again. Three more months before winter sets in and it stops growing for a couple of months.