Sky Scrapers
by Don Schwartz
Title
Sky Scrapers
Artist
Don Schwartz
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
Sitka spruce trees tower toward the heavens on Neahkahnie Mountain along the northern Oregon coast. According to legends of the Coastal Indians (probably the Nehalem Clan of the Tillamook Tribe), Neah-Kah-Nie (often spelled Neahkahnie) Mountain is seen as a sleeping warrior, waiting to be awakened. In the tribal language, "Ne" means "place of" and "Ekahni" means "supreme deity." Neah-Kah-Nie = "the place of the superme deity."
The mountain, which juts 1600 feet above the beach, plunges into the sea at the north end of Manzanita Beach, bifurcating the beach and causing fog and clouds coming in from the north to be redirected out to sea, to come aground again around Rockaway Beach. This is why Manzanita is often known as "the banana belt" of the North Oregon Coast.
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August 6th, 2013
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