Cape Disappointment

the name of the nation is Chin-nook and is noumerous live principally on fish roots a fiew Elk and fowls.

Capt Lewis returned haveing travesed Haleys Bay to Cape Disapointment
William Clark

Historic sketch of a small bay to the left of the large rock

Sketch by Henry Warre 'Cape Disappointment from the Anchorage' in 1845. (altered)

Seashore Lupin (Lupinus littoralis)

a Canoe came up with roots mats &c. to Sell. those Chinnooks made us a present of a rute boiled much resembling the common liquorice in taste and Size...
-William Clark-

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Long pink and purple petals

Photo by Gordon Leppig & Andrea J. Pickart, a work of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Baker Bay from Cape Disappointment

Capt. Lewis and party returned to Camp also, and informed us that they had been about 30 miles down which took them on the Sea Shore and a verry bad road the most of the way. they Saw the harbour where the vessells had lain but they were all gone.—
John Ordway

Our officers named this Cape Cape disappointment on account of not finding Vessells there.—
Joseph Whitehouse (written Nov. 18, 1805)

Cape Disappointment was actually named by Captain John Meares in 1788. Learn more...

Shallow bay viewed from a coastal forest on a gray day

Photo date: November 10, 2008.