This sign is located along Hwy 101 at the Cape Cove Trail.
Marker Name: Historic Sighting
Marker Text: On March 11, 1778, after spending five days trying to sail against a stormy sea, a British explorer named Captain James Cook made this entry in his journal.
“The Northern [point] was the same which we had first seen on the seventh; and on that account, I called it ‘Cape Perpetua’.” Why Cape Perpetua? Perhaps because March 7, the day he first sighted this rocky headland, is the holy day of Saint Perpetua. Or was it because the cape was in “perpetual” sight? No one knows for sure.
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