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At six o'clock the fleet was off Port Angeles in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Here the pilot came aboard the Connecticut, who was to guide the First Squadron to Bellingham Bay. The Second Squadron divided with Rear Admiral Emory taking the Third Division, (Louisiana, Virginia, Ohio, and Missouri) to Port Angeles, and Fourth Division going to Port Townsend. The visit to Port Angeles would last 2-days.
The Northwest
At left is a nice photograph provided by Brown & Shaffer from my collection on this site. From my experience on Puget Sound this picture looks like they are heading east towards the mountains putting them up along the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
In 1908 this part of the Olympic peninsula was logging country and much of it had been clear cut. The few trees that are shown here would be the stragglers left behind.
welcome to the olympics
The snow-capped Olympic peaks would certainly have been quite a site after just coming up the California coast. Traveling to the Northwest for the first time, sailors and marines had gathered information from the shipboard library and newspapers and were looking forward to the beauty of the region and to see native Americans. Above the USS Wisconsin at Port Angeles and a nice panorama of the fleet in the harbor at Port Angeles.
uss virginia in port angeles
"Arrived in harbor of Port Angeles, Washington May 21st, 1908 from San Francisco, California" Private Rex Wilhite, USMC, USS Virginia, U.S. Atlantic Fleet.
This real photo postcards shows natives from the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe residing near Port Angeles. By 1908 native Americans found that they had become a tourist attraction in their own land and dressed up like "Indians on the plains" and posed in front of tepees" to get tips.
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