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Deception Pass is a straight dividing Whidbey Island and Fidalgo Island in the northern part of Washington and can have some very swift currents. It was found and mapped on June 1, 1792 by a group of sailors who were part of the Vancouver Expedition, and were led by Joseph Whidbey. George Vancouver gave Deception Pass it's name because it looked like a narrow bay instead of a straight and was very deceiving. Between 1910 and 1914 a prison rock quarry was developed and housed more than 40 prisoners, on steep and hazardous cliffs, who cut up the big rocks into gravel and loaded it onto barges to be carried to Seattle's waterfront, and it is most recently famous for the horror movie The Ring in 2002 because they in fact filmed pieces of the __The Ring__ in Deception Pass. Deception Pass is a good place for Kayaking, boat tours, and fun filled days in the ocean. Deception Pass State Park is located closely and has become one of the most visited State Parks in Washington hosting 2 million visitors each year. Deception Pass is home to barnacles, a wide range of small fish, a wide range of big fish (including whales depending on the season), crabs, star-fish, jelly fish, a variety of birds; common and uncommon, and many other organisms not mentioned.

"This bridge is one of the most known scientific wonders of the Pacific Northwest. It has two spans in which one over the Canoe pass in towards the North and the other one is over the deception pass to the south. The construction for this beautiful bridge began in August of 1934 and it ended on July 31, 1935 at noon, the bridge provides 460 tons of steel for the 511ft Canoe Pass and for the Deception pass it is 1130 tons of steel and 976ft. The cost to build this bridge was 482,000 now a days to build a bridge it takes millions and billions of dollars to build a bridge and you would have to pass a bill through congress to do so as well. In September of the year 1982 the bridge was a National landmark for the historic part of it all. It cost more to paint the bridge in 1983 than it did to build it in 1935."

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