I've been processing the pics I took on my recent trip south. Since the new uploader is so convenient, I thought I'd share some pics of the batteries at Ft Casey, near Coupville on Whidby Island, WA, which was a coastal defense artillery site fielding disappearing guns, howitzers, cannons, recoiless rifles, and coastal mortars, even. Although the basework for the mortars still exist, there are no more coastal mortars known to exist.
This particular battery overlooks Admiralty Inlet and a huge portion of northern Puget Sound. It was part of a fort complex using disappearing guns that extended from central Puget Sound, through the Straits of Juan de Fuca, and down the Pacific coast, up the Columbia River, and on to California. Most of the coastal guns were sent to Europe and the Philippines to support various conflicts. By the end of the first world war this and most of the coastal forts had been scrapped. The examples at Fort Casey have been returned from places like France and Corregidor and show wear and battle damage. Black and white seemed to fit the subject.
