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A yellow Columbia River bar pilot boat heading out under the Astoria-Megler Bridge, a crewman in red on deck
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Crossing the Columbia River bar at Astoria

At Astoria, the Columbia River and the Pacific meet across a shifting bar of sand that every ship bound for Portland must cross.
A headland ridge running out to sea with a lighthouse at its end, in black and white
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The Fog That Defines Point Reyes

For much of the year, the fog at Point Reyes is not weather; it is the place itself.
A single tall apartment block below steep mountains and low cloud, across an empty lot
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Whittier, the town that lives under one roof

Most of Whittier, Alaska, lives in one fourteen-story building at the water's edge, with the rain and the wild Sound right outside.
A Pacific headland of wet black rock and windbent conifers going into afternoon fog above the surf
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Fog Season on the North Coast

For three months a year the Pacific erases the shoreline every afternoon at two. The people who prefer it that way.