Old Soldier by bmac62
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After 100 years the concrete is cracking, the blast doors to the ammunition rooms and the lifts and hoists for raising the shells to the guns are all slowly rusting. The huge gun pits are empty, their gigantic 12-inch guns sold for scrap years ago. Bushes and weeds grow blocking the commanding officer's once magnificent view of ships sailing through the Strait of Juan de Fuca toward Vancouver and Seattle.
The mission of this old Coastal Artillery fortification began in 1910 and ended 35 years later toward the end of World War II.
Today Battery Kinzie is only one of many tourist attractions drawing people from all over the USA and beyond to Fort Worden and the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.
The site is open to climb around to your heart's content. Our camp site was less than 1/4 mile away.
Note: Here's what one of the guns would have looked like on its' disappearing gun carriage. Click Here
Bill:)
"What I Was Shooting"
Comments (40)
Great historical collage.
Cool collage and info. Nothing is permanent.
Great images!!
Wonderful captures! it is a shame that these places are left to die
Sad state of decay but a wonderful set of images telling the story of a once glamorous fortification! Well done Bill! :)
Excellent collage; what a lot of rust and ruin now! Can't beat the location, though...
Wow...this place reminds me of a place they would visit on Ghost Hunters. lol
There is something intriging about rust and ruin...sort of like old "haunted houses" when you were a kid:)
Quite fascinating!
Good collage, Bill.
wonderful capture!!
And now it is beginning to look really interesting with all the rusty doors and wheels and stuff :-))) Excellent collage :)
Old indeed! Great collage, thanks for sharing!
Nice work Bill...
interessante photo!!
It all looks so still, almost ghostly. great collage!!!!
Interesting collage :)
Lovely collage of this fort Bill, is a shame that things like this that attract tourists are left to rust away.. guess they always will be as cost would be way to much to maintain.. :-( Excellent posting!!
Great collage.
I can only imagine how loud those cannons were and the fear of the intended target.excellent collage
Very interesting. Great collage, with all that old iron and rust.
I would love to explore there Bill. Great photo and info.
fascinating rusty soldier
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away (General Douglas MacArthur). Age and oxidation have really taken their toll on this ancient fortification, as depicted in this fine sequence of fotos, Bill.
wonderful capture warm hugs, Linda
amazing--thanks!
Wonderful shot and great information!
Really nice photos of this old fortification, Bill. In a way it's sad to see these places slowly decay, but in another view, it is slowly returning to nature. I would truly love to spend a day there. Excellent collage!
Excellent captures of this old gun placement. We have several of these around our coastline too but they have never been used.
cool shots of history