We're off to historic Pt. Townsend, WA this weekend to play a show on the waterfront for the city's Pride day. There's a substantial old army base there with barracks and officers quarters all well preserved they were part of a series of fortifications placed along the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Large gun batteries were sited and made to interlace their fire, they date to the early 1900's but were manned and on alert during WWII as in the early days Japanese submarines were sinking commercial vessels off the NW coast. They shelled Vancouver island at one point and there was fear that a submarine would intrude the shipyard at Bremerton as well. Anywho, here's a couple shots of the batteries, it may look familiar as some scenes from "Officer and a Gentleman" were shot here and in Pt. Townsend.
This is a gun pit, it had a large hydraulic mechanism that would raise the cannon up to fire at enemy ships.
There are other smaller pits as well, pretty now on a nice day, but not much fun during the winter as it's dark, cold and rainy about 100 percent of the time.
