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| September 18, 2024 [Photos] | |
We ventured to the Oregon coast, just because, taking a look at Crater Lake along the way. The deep, fresh water in the lake is so blue. We stopped at several lighthouses going up the coast, and stayed in Oceanside for a couple days. However, our full day there was cloudy and rainy, as happens in the Pacific Northwest. We toured the Tillamook Cheese Factory then I ventured to the Tillamook Naval Air Station museum as someone else went shopping. The museum certainly is not as polished as the repositories of national treasures in Washington, but it had some interesting stuff. Maybe the most interesting was the building itself, Hanger B, a massive wooden structure built in a hurry during WW II to shelter Navy blimps that were used for hunting Japanese submarines off the coast.Outside the building is the one and only Mini-Guppy, a modified transport plane used for carrying big stuff. It reminded me of the Super Guppy on display at the Pima museum. Although they are different designs, both were built around a Boeing 377 air frame. Lighting was a challenge in all the interior museum images. For most of them I pumped up the ISO and depended on Photoshop for noise reduction. It would have been handy to have a tripod, but mine was in the car riding around on a shopping trip while I was touring the museum. For the Mini-Guppy interior, I found a handy shelf for my camera and took a 15-second exposure at ISO 200. 
One of the Three Arch Rocks at sunset, Oceanside 
Hanger B and the Mini-Guppy 
Inside the Mini-Guppy 
Super Guppy at the Pima museum, 2002 | |
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