Deception Pass located at the north end of Puget Sound is a treacherous , narrow channel with turbulent waters, rapid tidal action and rocky out crops.It separates the high Bluffs of Whidbey Island from thoses of Fidalgo Island And is the way I go to my Mother's house on whidbey. A lot of people think the pass was named Deception because of rhe deceptive water conditions, but not so. In 1792 the English explorer George Vancouver named Deception Pass following a discovery by his navigator Joseph Whidbey that what they thought was a penisula was an island (Whidbey Island) and what they thought was a bay was the deep channel dividing the two islands. The pass, posing as a bay, had deceived them. and a new name was born.
It is a very high bridge and was built in 1935 and is now part of Deception Pass State Park. A wonderful and wild (some parts) area.
6 comments:
Gorgeous and frightening all at the same time!
Dear MB,
Is that the ferry under this bridge that takes you between islands?
Do you have a boat?
Der MB,
I ride, so never disappointed to know a fellow lover of the beasts... found homes for mine, ya understand how caregiving sorta turns a world upside down....
tho don't know are your sound h2o temps like hypothermia levels?
MB, those photos are awesome, you should enter the second on in a contest, it's amazing!!
Third photo I meant to say!
You did take some nice pictures. Maybe think about putting the 3rd one in a contest?
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