“Ocian in view! O! the joy.”
When Capt. William Clark wrote these words in his journal on November 7, 1805, he was not standing at the Pacific Ocean but the Columbia River estuary.  It would be another couple of weeks before he and Capt. Meriwether Lewis would stand at what they had “been so long anxious [...]

The Lewis And Clark National And State Historical Parks
This is a joint venture, in the process of creation, between the National Park Service and the States of Oregon and Washington.
 “Great joy in camp we are in view of the Ocian, this great Pacific Ocian which we been so long anxious to See.”  William Clark, November [...]