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Field Mark 001

Cape Henlopen Field Mark

For the water bottle that keeps ending up at Cape Henlopen.

Field Mark 001 · Cape Henlopen · Lewes · Delaware

Circular badge: sunrise over the water where bay meets ocean, a white lighthouse with a red-roofed keeper's house on the dune, sea oats in the foreground.
Proof. Tagline reads “Where the Sunrise Meets the Shore.” THE LIGHTHOUSE IS WRONG — Cape Henlopen's light fell into the sea on 13 April 1926 and there is no lighthouse standing on the cape today. The Delaware Breakwater light is visible offshore; the WWII observation towers are the structure people actually associate with the park. · Going back for another pass.

Not made yet

The design above is a draft and is going back for another pass. Nothing has been printed and there is nothing to buy.

Before this one is drawn again

  • THE LIGHTHOUSE HAS TO GO. Cape Henlopen's fell into the sea on 13 April 1926 and no lighthouse stands on the cape. Drawing a building gone a century, on a sticker sold by a guide that checks facts, is the most expensive mistake available here.
  • Draw the WWII fire-control towers instead. Nothing else in Delaware has them, so the silhouette is unmistakable and nobody else's sticker can use it.
  • "Where the Sunrise Meets the Shore" could be any coast in America. Cape Henlopen's actual distinction is that the bay meets the ocean there.

About the place

Cape Henlopen sits where Delaware Bay meets the Atlantic outside Lewes. Beaches, dunes, bike trails, fishing and camping, and the busiest state park in Delaware.

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