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For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: canal.

Nope, not a canal. A pass: Deception Passage. Taken in December 2018. This is looking at the San Juan Islands from the top of the hills around the pass.

3 thoughts on “deception”

  1. shoreacres says:
    February 15, 2019 at 5:03 am

    Why do I sense there might be some history behind that name? Deception Pass is the sort of name that could make me nervous, looking at a nautical chart.

    • drkottaway says:
      February 15, 2019 at 7:09 am

      The current there can go very fast when the tide is running. Also it is not the northwest passage, though it is a passage.

    • drkottaway says:
      February 15, 2019 at 7:38 am

      Per Wikipedia: “Image result for naming deception pass
      George Vancouver gave it the name “Deception” because it had misled him into thinking Whidbey Island was a peninsula. “

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