"A visitor on the ocean beaches stretching for about twenty-five miles northward from the cape, might think the name Disappointment significant of the many wrecks that have occurred both upon the beach and at the mouth of the Columbia River… It does not mean the disappointment of disaster, but the disappointment of one Captain John Meares, an English navigator, who was unable to verify an earlier Spanish report that a river 'San Roc' existed at the 46-degree latitude."
