This is what I came up with to do weekly. Somethine that'll hopefully help me stick to updating my blog.
So every Wednesday, I'll share something from/about Whidbey Island. It might just be a photo, some info, anything.
Today is Fort Casey. Fort Casey is an old miltary fort, and now a state park. There are tunnels to walk through; with flashlights, a lighthouse, camping, beach ,etc. It's also an awesome place to fly kites.
Fort Casey State Park is a 467-acre marine camping park with a lighthouse and sweeping views of Admiralty Inlet and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. A coast artillery post features two historic guns on display. The park features 10,810 feet of saltwater shoreline on Puget Sound (Admiralty Inlet), and includes Keystone Spit, a two-mile-plus stretch of land separating Admiralty Inlet and Crocket Lake.
Some history:
Fort Casey State Park is located on Whidbey Island in Washington state. Admiralty Inlet was considered so strategic to the defense of Puget Sound in the 1890s that three forts, Fort Casey on Whidbey Island, Fort Flagler on Marrowstone Island, and Fort Worden, were built at the entrance with huge guns creating a "Triangle of Fire" that could theoretically thwart any invasion attempt by sea. Fort Casey is now a 467 acres (1.89 km²) marine camping park. The Admiralty Head Lighthouse is located in the state park.
Fort Casey was built in 1890. Her big guns on disappearing carriages, which could be raised out of their protective emplacements so that the guns were exposed only long enough to fire, became active in 1901. Unfortunately, the fort's batteries became obsolete almost as soon as they were finished. In 1903, the invention of the airplane, and their subsequent development made them vulnerable to air attack. That, and the continuing development of were battleships which were designed with increasingly bigger and more accurate guns, and the static strategies of the nineteenth century were replaced with more mobile attack systems in the twentieth century. Most of the guns and mortars were removed from the fort and sent to Europe and the pacific during World War I, where they were mounted on railcars to serve as mobile heavy artillery.
Fort Casey was built in 1890. Her big guns on disappearing carriages, which could be raised out of their protective emplacements so that the guns were exposed only long enough to fire, became active in 1901. Unfortunately, the fort's batteries became obsolete almost as soon as they were finished. In 1903, the invention of the airplane, and their subsequent development made them vulnerable to air attack. That, and the continuing development of were battleships which were designed with increasingly bigger and more accurate guns, and the static strategies of the nineteenth century were replaced with more mobile attack systems in the twentieth century. Most of the guns and mortars were removed from the fort and sent to Europe and the pacific during World War I, where they were mounted on railcars to serve as mobile heavy artillery.
I've been to Fort Worden recently too, it's pretty cool. They have more tunnels still open than Ft Casey, who have blocked alot off.
So there's Whidbey Wednesday!
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