makes me wistful for the woods...

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Part of the area I grew up in way back when. I use to enjoy the drive out here when I got my car...

If you fallow the beach north past the tanker dock up to that tan point between the trees that's the area of where our house was.

way cool Fem...

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Yes it's trippy seeing places today of places I use to hang out. I remember it from a different perspective and time.

I can imagine...

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Select sector two, enhance, activate "where is Selah" algorithms... computing >w< im enjoying the history of this place chur reviving with ol femmpawz.

This pic shows the high tide line has moved inland a fair ways. That second tower of the conveyer was above the high tide line in the late 1970s... it is now well below the high tide line. As I remember the the road was at least 100 feet from the high tide line in the early 1960s when we moved out to that area. I remember it was a fair walk for a five year old from where the car was parked by the road out to the beach.

Anytime a Southerly storm rolls in this beach takes a pounding.

I can see where the Anderson's farm use to be up the beach about a quarter mile or so.

What a trip down memory lane... thank you.

The high tide line routinely threatens the roadway, to the effect that much of the entry/exit to the beach has been eaten away leaving only half the concrete roadbed left. Time and tide.

I have really enjoyed bringing back the memories through my pictures, and learning of what came before. If you have any other places you would like to revisit via pictures, please feel free to point me in a direction, and I will do my best to capture a memory for you.

I'm going to ask do you live in Ferndale or Blaine?

Grabdma B lived there on Drayton Harbor Rd. just south of Starving Sams. I remember when the Air Station was still an active installation... along with the Birch Bay Amusement Park there where Terral Creek dumps into the bay. Now it's condos. That was 45 years ago.

Many of the landmarks I use to use are gone. I have to look at the street signs off Portal Way to get the right street to my Mom's house. The Kent/Westmans motel is no longer there.

I have a Ferndale address though live well outside city limits a good deal southwest really more Lummi territory. Out this way there used to be a, I believe it was a Navy facility as there were massive radar arrays in the area. From any Google Maps overhead view it looks like a pair of Crop Circles, one big one small and a road on the perimeter of one.

I did some research on this subject and the design was nicknamed "Elephant Cage Radar" from what I understand it was something meant to detect subs out in the waterway.

Im not sure of an Air Station, I know Blaine had an airport at one point in time (the runway is pretty plain to see via Google Earth, or just driving around near the shopping center (strip mall of empty stores) Down in Birch Bay there was a barrex and Camp Horizion, not too sure of its purpose, but at the south end of that area is a massive concrete tower that used to house some sort of radar array or somesuch?

That big tower had a big rotating radar array it was over 250 plus feet across the face of the antenna. You could hear the drive motors half a mile away. The station out there was decommissioned in the 1970s

http://www.uneeda-audio.com/757th/

This site has some great info about the site, and some pictures of it and the area around the base!

Thank you... I have spent a few hours in the Rec Hall with friends bowling back in the day.

https://stationhypo.com/2017/03/26/.....go-this-month/

Here's a bit of history of the 'crop circles' of where I live near. It was a big radar installation near by me.

I use to see this site as I was flying in and out of Bellingham in 1971 when I was learning to fly, I always wondered what the site was. I kinda remember driving by it with Dad at one time before i was learning to fly.

Anyway thank you for posting this.

Good view here.