PLP 8 Oregon Trip

Hatfield Marine Science Center R.O.V. Challenge

The R.O.V. Challenge was to build a Remote Operating Vehicle (R.O.V.) that had a magnet attached. The magnet’s purpose was to pick up metal objects such as cutlery and small steel balls. Our main challenge was the fact that other groups would’ve already taken some of the parts we needed. The problem was easy to overcome because we could improvise. If we did this again the main change I would make would be to add a second magnet. 

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Places like High Life Adventures are important to small towns because they add a attraction drawing people to the town.

Hatfield Marine Science Center Visitors Center

There is a tsunami machine in the visitor center because the area nearby is at a risk for tsunamis. It also shows what materials are true most withstanding to tsunamis.

Depoe Bay is known as the smallest navigatable harbor. On March 11, 2011, the port was damaged by a tsunami caused by an earthquake off the coast of Japan.

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Cannon Beach is most well known for Haystack Rock. It is sometimes called the largest intertidal rock in the world.

Hatfield Marine Science Center Speedy Science

The criteria for our crab experiments was to spilt the crabs into two groups ie: colour or sex. Then we would time the crabs on how long it took for the crab to go from one end to the other on a race track we had set up for the crabs. Each group had six crabs. We had three green and three purple so we decided to separate our crabs by colour. Over all the purple crabs were faster.

Columbia River Maritime Museum Crossing the Bar Section

I would would be willing to cross the bar because the ships now are stronger and more robust also they are safer. A second reason is that i think it would be fun.

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We could not bring home the rocks because the beach is part of a protected state park. Also to take home a large beach of rocks is very difficult.

The Astoria Column is 125 feet tall and is covered on the outside by a sgraffito that depicts the story of America.

Tillamook Cheese Factory and Izzy’s Buffet

The Tillamook Cheese Factory was founded there because the Tillamook Valley was ideal for dairy cattle in the mid-19th century, but transporting the milk and butter over the mountains surrounding the valley was a problem. In 1854, several farmers from the county built a schooner named the Morning Star to transport butter to Portland, Oregon; the schooner is now featured as part of the co-op&apos;s logo, and a replica (constructed in 1992 by master shipwright Richard Miles of Aberdeen, WA) is on display at The Tillamook Cheese Factory. Peter McIntosh and T. S. Townsend established the county&apos;s first cheese factory in 1894. The association was founded by ten independent dairy farmers in 1909. TCCA hired an ad agency and began campaigning in 1917 in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillamook_ County_Creamery_Association

I learnt that 80 percent of the air we breathe is from the ocean!

Fred Meyers is the landmark I am looking forward to seeing!

I am excited to see a squirrel because I have never seen a squirrel from Oregon before!

The impact of the arrival of the first colonists to this area had on the First Peoples was devastating to the First Nations tribes; a large portion of their population was wiped out by a smallpox epidemic. From 1805 to 1807, the Lewis and Clark Expedition entered the Oregon Country along the Clearwater and Snake rivers, and encountered numerous small settlements of natives. Their records recount tales of hospitable traders who were not above stealing small items from the visitors. They noted brass teakettles, a British musket, and other artifacts that had been obtained in trade with coastal tribes. From the earliest contact with westerners, the natives of the mid- and lower Columbia were not tribal, but instead congregated in social units no larger than a village, and more often at a family level; these units would shift with the season as people moved about, following the salmon catch up and down the river&apos;s tributaries. Sparked by the 1848 Whitman Massacre, a number of violent battles were fought between American settlers and the region&apos;s natives.

Columbia River Maritime Museum First Nations Section

Travelling South with a stop at Cabela&apos;s!

This video is of the trip between Panera Bread and Cabela’s in time lapse. I like the video because it shows part of the trip we did today

At Fort Stevens I learned what a disappearing rifle was. It is a large gun that shoots a 6 inch wide shell. The gun is stationed on an disappearing carriage. The disappearing part of the gun is it has a large counterweight below it weighing about 3 to 4 tons. When the gun was ready to fire it was aimed where it is needed to shoot still inside the battery, then the counterweight was released and the gun would rise up above the battery and then was fired. The recoil was enough power to reset the counterweight, by lifting it to its original position.

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