Going Coastal 2019

Columbia River Maritime Museum Crossing the Bar Section

“The bar” is the area where the Columbia river and the Pacific Ocean meet. On a good day if I actually had some experience sailing I think I would cross the bar. With my experience at the moment I don’t think I could make it, although I would be willing to try. If the task is very important it would probably make me want to do it even more. I could also tell my grandkids and other people that I crossed the bar.

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.

The Yaquina Head is an incredible area with a beautiful cobble beach. This place is protected and not freely open to the public so this means you cant take any items from the beach. This also includes taking any animals in the tide pools or rippling them of rocks.

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

This video is about crossing the border between Oregon and Washington. This bridge crossed the Columbia river and is was 7 km long. I liked this video because it is a time lapse of crossing the bridge and it was cool because the time lapse was pretty long, this shows how long the bridge is. This video was also cool because in the time lapse you can see the change of elevation in the bridge because the big ships need to go under the bridge.

Replace this box with a map shows Vancouver to Newport, then add a drawing tracing the route of our trip.

Hatfield Marine Science Center: R.O.V. Challenge

Before to today I was so excited to make R.O.V machine, I have always liked to build things and so this experience was very cool. I love the engineering in this course but also the knowledge of deep sea exploring. I made a blueprint for the R.O.V, it had a boxy look for the easiest possible way to make a working R.O.V because we wanted to make it quick for the most driving time. There was a problem with my blueprint and that was that one of the motors were sticking out. Luckily I had a group to give me feedback and so we settled on a nice box that had motor protection. We were ready to start building, before we were told to “embrace the rhombus”, this meant that not all of the parts were going to be the same and our R.O.V could be a bit crooked. When we were starting to build this thing the “rhombus” was evident but that didn’t change the idea. We were almost done but we came to see that there wasn’t any connecting parts that we needed so we had to improvise. Our R.O.V had a few strange parts but it was fine, we were the first ones done and we moved on to putting on the floats. While putting on floats we had been experimenting with the different densities for the floats and we got a completely neural float in the water. The problem was that there was a spoon connected to the magnet and that weighed down the submersible. We eventually fixed it and got it to be almost neutral but not as much as the one with the spoon on it. Our R.O.V was super fun to drive around and it also was pretty quick. I was really proud of the outcome and if you asked my group members they would probably say the same.

Hatfield Marine Science Center: Animal Adaptations

Animals adapt to changing environments all the time. Some of these animals are like razor clams that have a sharper shell. They have this shaper shell to cut through the incoming water or digging their selfs in the mud below. Many other animals also have these adaptations like mussels too. Mussels have these stretchy string that come out of their bodies. They use this to connect to other mussels and therefore becoming stronger as a group. These strings also have some give to them as well, this is so they still stay connected while being hit by a wave.

Hatfield Marine Science Center: Speedy Science

Our criteria was putting big crabs against small crabs. Our hypothesis was that the smaller crab would be faster than the bigger crabs because the bigger crabs have to move around more body weight where as smaller crabs have have less weight to move.

Columbia River Maritime Museum First Nations Section

The Columbia river is an amazing area with very incredible sights and wildlife. Before this day there was a tribe called then Chinook tribe, this tribe inhabited the lower Columbia region for thousands of years. They were part of an extensive inter-tribal trading network along the river and coast. A vital component of their living was the western red cedar, this tree helped them fulfil their daily needs. Some of these were their canoes made from their logs and mats, fishing nets, baskets and clothing were made out of fibres from these trees. The arrival of the first colonists really changed the living of the first peoples, fishing had gotten more challenging because they had to compete with other people in their area. The colonists had taken the first peoples land and claimed it for their self’s. The first people had never expected this to happen, they thought they would always just have their own land.

Hatfield Marine Science Center: Assemble a Whale

For our third class of the day our class task was to assemble a whale out of real bones. We started off with the spine of the whale, we learned that the spine goes from small at the bottom to large at the top. Knowing this information we started building, building the spine I thought was pretty good, we had a few little mess ups but otherwise I thought it was very good. After we touched up a few things on the spine we were ready to assemble the ribs. This part was not as good in terms of teamwork and actually doing the task right. We had pieces that were different sizes scattered around the whale and it did not look good. We needed to be reminded about the positions of the ribs for different sizes. We managed to pull ourselves back together and get the pieces into the right spots. Overall I think we worked pretty well and really showed some perseverance as a group to complete the end task.

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This place is truly unforgettable, not just for the things that I saw but the way that they treated their animals was incredible. This place was much better than a zoo in my opinion. They had their animals live freely instead of in cages. They also created the habitats for animals to their liking. I think this is important because it lets some animals have a second chance at life. I saw an eagle that was missing a wing and this eagle may not have been able to live on its own. These factors make this place great for living. The forested area has many different spots for the animals to settle in. This place is really great for wildlife and I hope they keep going with this as long as possible.

Tillamook Cheese Factory and Izzy’s Buffet

This is a good area for cheese because of the moist area, this helps grow the grass. This grass growing is good because they handle a lot of cows here and the need to have good nutrition. I feel that Vancouver would also bee a good place for making cheese because there is lots of vegetation. I also think that it would be kind of bad because there is also lots of pollution in the city area and it would be pretty loud too.

Quests are fun and exciting, but I don’t think I can say the same thing for “The Letter 7”. On this quest we were asked where the highway and ocean were and we got that correct. We were told the direction to go from the start of the quest and that was towards the highway. We read the poems on the sheet and it told us to find a wide paved path with a sign. The problem was that it was the wrong sign and wide paved path, we went down that path and came to a 4 way split. We decided to go strait, this was the 2nd wrong turn because we ended up on the beach. We turned around and took the left path this time and it was actually the right path. We ended up in a parking lot and couldn’t find any clues, the poem told us to look low on a rock and I found a letter. We started to feel that we were doing well and got pretty excited, we took a path off of the main one and then got lost in the bushes. We turned around and found another path off of the main one, this also was completely wrong. Finally we found what we thought was the correct direction and I still think that it actually was the right way or at least could have been the right way. Either way we would not have finished this quest because we ran out of time and came back late. The moral of this story is to read carefully because we didn’t read carefully and that leaded to us taking the wrong turns and ending up nowhere close to where we were supposed to be. 

The Astoria Column is 125 feet tall and is covered on the outside by a frieze that depicts historical events.

I’m looking forward to seeing the Wreck of Peter Iredale because I am fascinated by the fact that that ship used to be floating. It also looks so cool wedged in the sand like that. I want to get a photo of this ship so I can get a new background.

I am looking forward to seeing a beaver because they are one of my favourite animals. I like them because they are great builders. I have seen a beaver before but not very clearly so I’m looking forward to seeing one in Oregon.

Cannon Beach

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

Fort Stevens is a place on the northwest coast of Oregon, this place was used as a fort in the Civil War, World War I and World War II. In the Civil War this fort was used for Defending against enemy ships that cross the Columbia River. They defended by using the canon to the left, this canon is called the disappearing canon. It has this name because is pops up in 3 seconds and shoots in 1 second. In this time that this canon would shoot the enemy ship and they would not know where they got shot. This particular canon is a replica of the old canons. This was built by a man that died 3 years ago but his son is going to be finishing this canon this year.

These activities are important to smaller towns because they bring attention. This attention attracts more people and therefore builds a community inside and out of town. This really gives people something to look forward to and that helps make a bond with people not from the town.

Hatfield Marine Science Center: Visitors Center

In the visitors centre the tsunami machine is probably the best thing there is the tsunami machine. Although this machine is very entertaining is also can simulate the waves hitting a building. If your building maybe didn’t have a good foundation it would be knocked over by the wave. These simulate real scenarios and show what devastation tsunamis can cause. 

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