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Deception Island was a whaling station until 1931. The structures remain decaying on the actively volcanic island.
Deception Pass is a narrow body of water separating Whidbey Island from Fidalgo Island, in the northwest corner of Washington State.
Captain George Vancouver and his navigator and First Mate Joseph Whidbey are credited with naming Deception Pass in 1792. One explanation behind the name holds that both officers mistook Whidbey Island for a peninsula, and named the passage Deception Pass for the way the island had deceived them. The second explanation is that the strong current during the change from high to low tide caused them to mistake the waterway for a river, and believed that they had stumbled across the fabled Northwest Passage. Due to the current's deception, Deception Pass was so named.
In the waters of Deception Pass, just east of the present-day Deception Pass Bridge is a small island known as Ben Ure's Island. The island became infamous for its activity of smuggling illegal Chinese immigrants for local labor. Ure and his partner Lawrence "Pirate" Kelly were quite profitable at their smuggling business and played hide-and-seek with the United States Customs Department for years. Ure's own operation at Deception Pass in the late 1880's was comprised of Ure and his Native-American wife. Local tradition has it that his wife would camp on the nearby Strawberry Island (which was visible from the open sea) and signal him with a fire on the island's summit to alert him to whether or not it was safe to bring his illegal cargo ashore. For transport, Ure would tie the illegal immigrants up in burlap bags so that if customs agents would approach he could easily toss the bags overboard. The tidal currents would carry the discarded immigrant's bodies to San Juan Island to the north and west of the pass and many ended up in what became known as Dead Man's Bay.
Traveling on highway 2 in WA there is a little place called Deception Falls. Not much of a sign, just outside Skykomish, worth stopping at for a break.
Inside Deception Island there is a large bay which was created in what was the cauldera of a volcano. Thousands of whales were capture, killed and processed here in the early 1900's. This is a shot of some of the boilers used to create oil from the blubber.
It was a great weekend for checking out Deception Pass and the San Juan islands in Washington state.
"...and the river bank sings of the waters of March, it the promise of life it's the joy in your heart" Antonio Carlo Jobim
He may have got the month wrong but the waterways in the Northwest are definitely "singing" as they overflow with the spring snow melt and and recent rains.
I spent several enjoyable hours exploring and photographing at Deception Creek Fall Recreation Area on US Route 2 near Stevens Pass.
Deception Creek crashes over a second smaller drop and this time of year it has a huge volume, speed and force. While I was there five kayakers put out just above here to survey the rapids and, smartly I believe, decided to carry their boats around this and the third drop and put in on the Tye River to continue the journey.
This is a deceptive sticker by EFRAT, a Jewish-Orthodox anti-abortion group, with a slant which says it is abhorrent to waste a *Jewish* life. Translation in notes. I've seen quite a few near my house in the last couple of days; some were torn.
182' above the water, it cost more to paint it in 1983 than it cost to build it in 1934. Funded by the 'recovery' program instituted by Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Depression....sound familiar?
View from the Bridge at Deception Pass. You can walk the entire span of it as long as you don't suffer from vertigo. It drops a few hundred feet to the water......from the bridge you can see MT. Bachelor to the east and Islands and open sea to the west....very cool day trip from Seattle.
I have'nt had a day of pleasure shooting for a long time. Was walking around with my trustee 50 1.4 and feeling creative. Please try and guess what this actually is a photo of. :)