Whispering Giant

You see the Whispering Giant as you enter Astoria from Young's Bay Bridge on the west end of town. Until the other day, I thought he represented the famous local chief of Lewis and Clark's time, Chief Comcomly, but the other day I learned differently. I spent a delightful long weekend with Francisca as my guest. As we were both interested in attempting extraordinary photos of the ordinary as well as taking photos of the extraordinary, we had to stop and visit the Whispering Giant.

I'd intended to photograph this guy many times (I see him often), but the thing is, you have to turn right at the traffic circle instead of my usual left, and then purposely come back the other way and stop on the side road behind the traffic circle in order to reach him. So, while he's in plain sight, he's out of the way for stopping. I've always put it off for another day or for a day when the sky was better (whatever that might mean). In this case it was raining slightly, but it seems the old Indian was quite photogenic in the rain.

The plaque reads:

Whispering Giant

Ikala Nawan

Sculptor Peter Wolf Toth

This 57th Statue honors the Clatsop,

Chinook, and all the Northwest

Coastal Indians

Dedicated December 1987

Cedar log donated by ITT/Rayonier

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