1 June - Artesian Well
Jun. 5th, 2014 08:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fenchurchOn Sunday, we headed south to stay the night in Vancouver, WA so we'd be down near Portland the next morning. After a stop for dinner in Olympia, I did a quick search for nearby Geocaches and was surprised to discover there was an Earthcache just a block or so away. This is actually one of the things I love about Geocaching... it takes us to really cool spots we otherwise never would have known about.
Yep, it's an artesian well, in the middle of a parking lot (okay, the well is under the parking lot, but is piped off to the side to a small "park" that's been built for it). I've seen photos of how it used to look and, once upon a time, it really was just a pipe coming out of the ground that constantly gushed water. I love the art they've built around it! The water is flowing at a rate of about 10 gallons per minute and lots of people come there to fill containers, absolutely free. We filled a few small water bottles and I've gotta say, that was some mighty tasty water!
I must confess that the entire time I was there, I couldn't help think of a bunch of Olympia Beer commercials from the early 1980s...
I've found a few of them on Youtube, but there was a whole series of them at the time.
This one doesn't start until about 22 seconds in:
Crossposted from my Livejournal.
Yep, it's an artesian well, in the middle of a parking lot (okay, the well is under the parking lot, but is piped off to the side to a small "park" that's been built for it). I've seen photos of how it used to look and, once upon a time, it really was just a pipe coming out of the ground that constantly gushed water. I love the art they've built around it! The water is flowing at a rate of about 10 gallons per minute and lots of people come there to fill containers, absolutely free. We filled a few small water bottles and I've gotta say, that was some mighty tasty water!
I must confess that the entire time I was there, I couldn't help think of a bunch of Olympia Beer commercials from the early 1980s...
I've found a few of them on Youtube, but there was a whole series of them at the time.
This one doesn't start until about 22 seconds in:
Crossposted from my Livejournal.
