Mary D. Hume - Gold Beach, Oregon

Built in 1881, the Mary D. Hume sailed the seas of the west coast for nearly a hundred years before she was finally retired in the 1970's. Efforts to turn...
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Built in 1881, the Mary D. Hume sailed the seas of the west coast for nearly a hundred years before she was finally retired in the 1970's. Efforts to turn her into a museum ship ran aground, quite literally, when an accident sunk her into the soft mud of Gold Beach Oregon's harbor. Since then she has slowly succumbed to the harsh elements of the coast.

At high tide, this is all that's visible of her now, however at low tide much of her hull still can be seen above the waterline. I stopped to get this long exposure (90 sec total exposure time, 3 shots of 30 seconds each) on a particularly foggy day, obscuring the jetty in the distance.
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