The best place I know of to see Tillamook Lighthouse from land is at Ecola State park just north of Cannon Beach. Bring binoculars. I've been there many times and love it during the dead of winter during king tides. Incredible forces of nature at work. Disliking people as much as I do, being a lightkeeper on Terrible Tilly would be a dream assignment for me. Especially as a Navy sailor who loves the sea.
The record was jumping ! It reached the point where the music tended to demand my attention at the expense of the commentary , so I had to replay part of the video again . Perhaps a suitable song for background music would be "I Wanna Marry a Lighthouse Keeper" from the movie " A Clockwork Orange " ! 😂. An example of a video from It's History with very appropriate and subtle background music would be " California's Lost Highways Under Water " .
Just a note ... The lighthouse was not built because that section of coast was "too dark and dangerous" (5:16). Lighthouses are typically built to mark hazards to navigation (such as that big rock Tillamunk sitting several miles offshore) and to serve as navigation beacons to give mariners a reference point to plot course by. The light does not illuminate any part of the coast; rather it serves as a visible marker to identify a specific point on the ground or the sea.
I was in the Navy, stationed in Washington state. I can tell you the seas off the coast of Oregon are no joke. On our destroyer, there were many injuries, broken plates, glasses and damaged equipment like computers that weren't tied down.
Did you ever go to Depot Bay ? That's where the coast guard purposely capsize their vessels. I use watch them for hours. That's where the coast guard trains. Very cool. I lived on the coast 6 years. We have people especially crab fishermen lose thier lives every year. The water as you know is always 50. Numbing and you can live maybe 5 minutes. I know exactly how nasty the OR coastal waters are. Don't surprise me that a destroyer got knocked around like a tin can.
@@barryrammer7906 I'm actually not sure if we ever went there or not. I was in engineering, so I didn't usually know where we were, exactly. I definitely knew when we made it to Oregon's coast, lol. Well, they didn't call us Destroyer crew "Tin Can Sailors" for nothing, haha.
Tillamook Light House marks the beginning of "Graveyard of the Pacific" I was lucky enough to grow up ocean front Cannon Beach OR and got to gaze out at this landmark on every clear day. Spectacular, thank you.
As an Oregonian and a light house geek I always look forward to my trips to the coast and Tilly is on the list even though it is only a visual experience. Forbidding during storm season and welcoming in the summer, A destination all year long. Thanks for doing this. Peace!
@@Glenn-em3hvI believe it’s privately owned. Second, the waves out there are dangerous. Even if you’ve had seas legs your entire life, it’s not worth dying for. Best chance is to use a drone.
I visited this beautiful part of the world in 2007, I absolutely love the Oregon coast and Pacific Northwest. Greetings from Mike in Perth, Western Australia!
Greetings from Mike on Whidbey Island, Washington. Been hear 40 years and I love the Pacific Northwest. Just spent Summer in Depot Bay, Oregon. Love the area.
Why don't people who are going to post a video of a place do a full spectrum research of the subject? Yes I was born in Oregon, yes I know about "Terrible Tilly". But why can't you pronounce the name of our state correctly? OREGON is pronounce in the phonetic style of OR E GUN not OR E GONE. Yes we be here in this state and we have guns and we are not gone because of them. 🙂
If you have ever been to the Oregon coast it is immediately apparent why lighthouses were needed. It is a treacherous place, most of the few landable sand beaches are warded by extremely hazardous stone spires made even more hazardous by unpredictable currents. I'm 40 years old and my grandfather started teaching me seamanship when I was four. My first trip up the "Lost Coast" from San Francisco to Portland frightened me more than any other coastline I've witnessed.
The Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, OR covers this well. Apparently the seas at the mouth of the Columbia River are the most treacherous in the world.
Interesting, but I hate the pointless background music. Maybe I'm sensitive because I'm a musician and I find it inappropriate? Muzak is a moden curse.
That is why The Motor City Madman Ted Nugent offered to buy Muzak (the company) for millions of dollars so the that he could end the mindless dribble called MUZAK! I do not believe Frank Zappa was a fan either!
Great video. Anyone from Oregon can appreciate this thorough investigation, given the spooky nature of this local enigma! From the coast, one can see just enough to spark more curiosity... and not much more, even with binoculars.
@@johnransom1146Because those photos don’t exist. Look it up online. The closest you’re gonna get is some drone footage at the doorway and a polaroid of a fisherman who took a photo inside on the top. Even if they did, they’re most likely long gone. Additionally, Terrible Tilly became a columbarium: a storage house for urns full of cremated human remains. Later lost that license, and there’s still human urns still there. Out of respect of the dead. Many photos since then haven’t been taken.
I've spent a lot of time on that part of the Oregon coast. If you ever happen to go there, check out the Tillamook Cheese Factory and the Blimp museum. The way the jet stream moves, can bring in some very high winds which will drive the seas. To swim in the ocean, a full body wet (or preferable dry) suit is required, and rip tides are not uncommon. That lighthouse would have been a miserable place to be stationed, simply because of the three seasons of really awful weather.
Tender ship, with a anchor station off the rock, then they used breaches buey to land men, to land supplies they had a Derek boom, look it up there's pictures
7 am and I'm watching this and wishing I was there instead of here in Texas where we just suffered through a week of 105 degree weather! I'm 62 years old and Oregon is still on my bucket list as my mother was born there.
I enjoyed the video as it was well done. However the narrator MUST be the one who inspired the physical appearance of "Butthead" complete with mispronunciation of the name Oregon. lol
Tillamook lighthouse was also featured on legendary lighthouses part one from the pbs channel they were going to renovate it as a non profit organization To keep the legends alive I love all lighthouses across America and the world 🌎 Shalom dove 🕊️ of peace ☮️
As a Long Islander there are many lighthouses here steeped in history. Montauk, Fire Island, Huntington and more. And the history dates back to George Washington or before. I would love to see your videos on one of those.
@@mariekatherine5238 Yes it is still there. It was gutted by fire in the mid 70s so apparently nothing inside. There are plans to restore it and make it a BnB. It did get a new temporary roof in 2017 so that's a start.
Eatons Neck lighthouse was my next door neighbor for 3 years courtesy of the Coast Guard. I was also stationed in Coos Bay, OR. I’ve visited every lighthouse on the Oregon Coast except for Tillamook. It’s a very picturesque coast.
Mr Socash is obviously all over the place; in Chicago, on the beaches in Normandie and now on the US Westcoast ... And as always telling a very good story the perfect Socash way! Thumbs up!
There's not really any light houses in my neck of the woods. But if you take a small trip out of this area you eventually make it to where there are some. But since I don't travel all that much the only one I know of personally is the one near Crown Point, NY. There's probably more about, but I don't know them.
I'd like to see a video about shoals where there are no lighthouses. Before GPS, imagine how many ships wrecked on shoals - i.e. submerged ridges, banks, or bars that rise near enough to the surface of a body of water as to constitute a danger to navigation.
You keep mispronouncing Oregon. It's not Ora-Gone but rather OR-eg-in. Sorry I had to say something....Just remember that it's OR-eg-in, not "OR-e-gawn." Place the stress on the first syllable, and keep the "g" hard, as in "gun". You can say "OR-ih-g-in" or "OR-eh-g-in".
I think it’s time I let you guys in on a secret. The YT algorithm strongly embraces videos with high engagement, and there are some subtle ways to increase that😉
Kind of weird like the state of Kansas, and then you have the state of Arkansas. For some reason the folks that live in said state of Arkansas insist it is prononced "Arkinsaw"
I would recommend reading James A. Gibbs’ book “Tilamook Light” about his time as a lighthouse keeper in the late 1940s. He tells about whitewashing the exterior of the building dune flies and the incessant heat during the summer months. Because of the powerful storms and enormous waves, stones were often cast through the glass panels of the lighthouse at the top of the structure.
I made the trip a few years ago from my home in SoCal up to Mt St Helens, then back down along the coast. Stopping at Ecola and seeing Tilly was definitely on my list of stops.
... 11:00 - screaming skull image on the face of the seaward cliff. I'd have no problem being a keeper on this rock back in her heyday. Take that, Poseidon!
I like the content of this video, although I feel you could have made a better choice with the music. Something with a more appropriate atmosphere next time, I think.
As a combat expert and a military background and former architect and royal engineer I would love to practice on this light house.i hope this helps you .Good day.
It looks safe because of its height but it's very deceptive. Ocean waves can easily grow to 50ft and as they approach the rock the waves will jack up even higher because of friction with the bottom.. all that water wants to move forward but it can't..so it goes up. Plus ocean water surface rises and falls. I wouldn't want to be there when a severe storm breaks out.
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