Turn On It, Tune Out, Drop In

N WIND 15 TO 20 KT...RISING TO 20 TO 25 KT IN THE AFTERNOON. GUSTS UP TO 30 KT. WIND WAVES 6 FT. NW SWELL 4 FT AT 7 SECONDS.

This photo was taken at the A.N. Gilbert family camp at Slab Creek on the Oregon Coast in 1880. Further research has discovered that Slab Creek was the original name for Neskowin in Tillamook County. In 1887 the area was known as Slab Creek because of a quantity of slabwood that had washed up from an earlier shipwreck. The name was changed on October 7. 1925 to what the Indians called it, Neskowin, meaning "plenty fish". The name was pronounced with an accent on the second syllable, rhyming with "how". The group is seen standing in front of what is known as "Proposal Rock" several feet off shore. The women bathers are in knee-length dresses and the men are in knee-length pants - the bathing attire of the time.

~image & text from the Oregon Historic Photograph Collections