On Location At Fort Stevens

Today was another full day of shooting movie scenes. This time it was at Fort Stevens state park near Astoria. Again God blessed us with glorious weather, but today was much cooler and windy.

We met the rest of the crew at the battery at 10am. They had spent a rather chilly night in a yurt at the campground and hadn't been warm since.

Zack and Andy headed to the shoot and Will, Chris and I went exploring...

West Battery built in 1897 (most of the filming was inside here)

Joel as a scary guard (only Chris doesn't look scared)

inside the "cell"

Zack in "costume" and armed

as you can see there are TONS of fun tunnels,

stairs, doorways, steps and ladders to explore

as well as big guns...

army jeeps

and more batteries

(this is Battery 245 and is the newest battery)

they also did some scenes in here

how could you not enjoy exploring a place with room names

like "shell room" and "air compressor room" or "latrine"?

we decided to try going to the top of the Astoria Column

to enjoy the spectacular view, but it was closed AGAIN!

(they are replacing the stairs)

We were kind of disappointed, so we went to Fred Meyer's

and bought a dozen maple bars!

lunch break

after lunch Will went to help out with the movie

and Chris and I decided to explore someplace warm...

the fort museum

we learned tons of cool stuff about the fort!

(it was the only military base attacked in the

continental US since 1812? it was shelled by a

Japanese sub in 1942)

each of the concrete pads and chimneys were

where the barracks were at the fort

this is the original earthworks fort that was built,

I believe, before the Civil War

it was surrounded by a moat

inside the original fort

exploring a Clatsop indian long house


packin' up and ready to go home

The boys had a really great day of shooting and gots lots of good work done today!