Cape Disappointment State Park was the first of the Confluence sites to be constructed because Maya Lin was interested in reflecting back on the journey of Lewis and Clark and the mythology that has grown around it. Cape Disappointment is where the Columbia River empties into the Pacific Ocean and where Lewis and Clark’s journey west ended. Here, Lin worked with park staff and contractors to reclaim a small sheltered bay from what was once a series of boat docks and before that an elevated rail bridge connecting the Fort with the nearby town of Astoria. The team replanted the site with indigenous trees and plants and installed a basalt fish scaling table etched with a creation myth from the local Chinook tribe. The interior bay is connected to a separate site across a highway facing the Pacific Ocean. There, a series of walkways made from crushed oyster shells create a bifurcated path leading to a sheltered listening circle, an open-air amphitheater, and Waikiki beach. One pathway features quotes from a Chinook praise song. At the listening circle, a small grove of cedar driftwood columns affixed with steel plates surround the trunk of a dead elm that would have been alive when the Corps of Discovery crew arrived at the site. The planks of the other pathway are etched with an index from William Clark’s journals documenting the different species encountered at the site. The initial building stage of the project lasted from 2002 to the blessing and dedication completed in 2006. Restoration work was done on the fish cleaning table from 2008 to 2009. As of 2015, the fish cleaning table is no longer in use due to environmental concerns about solid fish waste disposal and the state park’s concern about the degrading of the table as an art object.