March 11, 2015 - 4 years post Tsunami

Two years ago, I posted about the recovery efforts in out harbor on the second anniversary of the Tsunami that first attacked Japan and then destroyed our harbor and left one person dead here after being swept out to sea, and another dead just North of here in the Brookings, Oregon Harbor from a heart attack as the Tsunami swirled into the harbor there.

http://echo-echosvoice.blogspot.com/2013/03/two-years-after-tsunami-in-crescent-city.html

adding the signage to tell people the harbor has more than crab boats here

Watching the slow but steady improvement from crushed boats and crumbled docks to a functional, and prettier harbor than we had before has been fascinating to me, and I hope you enjoy these photographs as well.

now when the water rises, so will the docks

reflecting 

a picture from the information signs here now

and just after 

from 1930 when there was only a bay and a couple piers

from the viewing deck this year

just south of the harbor

and that lighthouse has withstood not only this Tsunami and the Monster of March 28, 1964 but the thirty or more small ones that come through unremarked 

last spring when the Tall Ships passed through

a couple years ago, after dredging the boat basin

the big equipment we've had in and out saved the harbor

Spring 2013

much more work needed done a couple years ago

and now it is beautiful to see how far they have come and not only have the people and boats returned but so have the Pelicans and loons, seals and Sea Lions

Playing with my camera a bit

Lately I have been participating in a challenge on the 365 project photo sharing site, to use a lot of black and white and play with exposure and try selective coloring.

http://365project.org/pandorasecho/365/2013-03-02

So here is a shot of me and the snuggliest dog I've even known

Here is that dog, looking mournfully out at the Barbara Marie, The Crab boat my son spends months at a time on.

Caesar is just too colorful to leave in black and white I think

Crab pots coming back home as the season winds down

ongoing construction in the harbor a couple years after the tsunami wiped out all the docks here and sank the crab fleet

HA!  I never get the moon to look like anything but a white light, the secret seems to be taking the picture when the sky is not such a dark contrast.

Driving through WonderStump Road, where a redwood logging train used to run to the logging camps

SeaLions in the harbor

Me, trying to overexpose a shot and still make it work.  Hmm, dows it erase lines and make me look younger?

Icarus, my double yellowhead got his name when he got too close to Sunshine, the cockatoo, and got a bunch of feathers plucked

My Husband and our 38 year old Green Wing Macaw, Caesar  Selective Coloring, I haven't mastered it nut it worked for this