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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2018
Lighthouse: Getting
to ‘Terrible Tilly’
was a challenge
Continued from Page A1
Rekate, a retired Can-
non Beach contractor, now
plans to offer his photos to
the Cannon Beach History
Center and Museum to help
piece together the light-
house’s history.
“When I read that arti-
cle, I thought, ‘Hey, maybe
they could use these, too,’”
he said.
Local lore
Lots of local lore exists
about fi shermen taking trips
into the lighthouse , but pho-
tos documenting the inte-
rior or taken from the per-
spective of being on the
lighthouse are uncommon,
according to the history
center.
While the abandoned
lighthouse was always in
the background, it wasn’t
especially common for
fi shermen to get onto the
sea stack, Rekate recalled.
There is no good way to
dock a boat, and the area is
known for its tumultuous
conditions.
But one day, when fi sh-
ing was unusually slow and
the water was strangely
placid, Rekate and a few
other fi shermen decided to
take a look inside.
Getting there, how-
ever, was still a challenge.
Rekate and his partners
took turns jumping onto
the island while the others
would putter around.
“Even though it was
calm, there was still a swell,
so you’d have to time it,”
he said. “You’d move in
Rare photos of the
Tillamook Rock
Lighthouse have
recently been released
by a fi sherman who
visited the site before
it was closed off .
Scott Retake
with the swell and the per-
son going would jump, then
you’d have to hit reverse
and back out.”
When he fi rst arrived
at the lighthouse, the front
door was fl ung open and the
insides were in disarray.
The building was incred-
ibly dark, Rekate remem-
bered,
illuminated only
by the light from the front
door and from the light-
house above. Some chairs
and a table remained —
even a 1950s newspaper
from Tampa, Florida. Inside
where the Fresnel lens used
to live, little holes from
small rocks carried by large
waves punctured the glass.
What impressed him
the most, however, was the
staircase.
“The catwalks were
very unique,” Rekate said.
“Light from the light-
house would hit down on
diamond-shaped
F resnel
pieces on the staircase and
illuminate the whole stair-
case without any lights.
I thought that was pretty
cool.”
Still curious
Rekate remains curious
about the state of the light-
house almost 40 years later,
and of the other fi shermen
who made the journey.
“If there was any kind
of major swell, you’d bash
into the rocks,” he said. “So
I can’t imagine it happened
a lot.”
Many who remember
Terrible Tilly have “likely
been blown apart across the
country by now,” he said.
Park: The heritage association will be responsible for maintenance
Continued from Page A1
Jonah Dart-McLean, the
interim park director, said
the city was waiting for the
project to go through the
approval process.
The park the heritage
association plans to develop
will include interpretive fea-
tures and information about
the Scandinavian immi-
grants who came to Asto-
ria seeking work and better
lives. The park will be low
maintenance, but also a pub-
lic monument, easily acces-
sible to visitors and locals
alike, organizers say.
While the site will con-
tinue to be a city park, the
heritage association will be
responsible for maintenance.
The park has been two
years in the making. The her-
itage association had hoped
to have a park in place in
time for the annual Astoria
Scandinavian Midsummer
Festival’s 50th anniversary
in 2017 .
“We’re very excited,” said
Judi Lampi, the park project
chair for the heritage associ-
ation. “I’m looking forward
to a lot of hard work.”
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