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Wednesday 1st September 2004

Peter Iredale Wreck at Fort StevensFrom Seaside to Fort Stevens State Park, Camping Area. About 18 miles on route. After an enormous amount of pancakes at the Pig'N Pancake, a visit to a second hand bookshop, and a bit of staring at the sea, we finally got on the road and we've made it all the enormous distance of 18 miles to Fort Stevens. This was entirely along route 101 apart from the very last few miles to the campsite, so a busy road, including one puncture (actually a 'squeeze' puncture, not a real one - the specialized armadillo tyre on the back of my (Steve's) bike, has never puncture and each one lasts about 3000 miles). We headed onto the beach at Fort Stevens, and discovered the huge and empty beach. The wreck of an old British steamer lies on the shore - it's made of iron so it's not decaying very quickly. Pictures show that it has lost a fair bit of its structure just in the last few years though. A wonderful elemental place.

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