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Muley Point is a remote cliff and scenic overlook in southern Utah near Mexican Hat in San Juan County, Utah. The view provides panoramic vistas of the desert landscape of southern Utah (Valley of the Gods) and northern Arizona. Monument Valley is visible in the distance while the San Juan River cuts into the canyon below.
Located at the end of a five-mile gravel road off Rte. 261, Muley Point is 25 miles (40 km) south of Natural Bridges National Monument and 20 miles (32 km) north of the Arizona border. Its geographical coordinates are 37°13′59″N 109°59′36″W. It lies at an elevation of 6,230 feet (1,900 meters).
[Wikipedia contributors. (2023, January 23). Muley Point (San Juan County, Utah). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 18:56, January 8, 2024, from en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Muley_Point_(San_Juan_County,_Utah)&oldid=1135239668]
San Pedro, CA
The lighthouse was built in 1874 and designed by Paul J. Pelz, who also designed Point Fermin's sister stations, East Brother Island Light in Richmond, California, Mare Island Light, in Carquinez Strait, California (demolished in the 1930s), Point Hueneme Light in California (replaced in 1940), Hereford Inlet Light in North Wildwood, New Jersey, and Point Adams Light in Washington State (burned down by the Lighthouse Service in 1912), all in essentially the same style. The original fourth order Fresnel lens was removed in 1942 and a wood replica lantern was installed in 1974. The lighthouse was saved from demolition in 1972 and refurbished in 1974, and a new lantern room and gallery were built by local preservationists. In 1972, the light was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Historical Information from Coast Guard web site:
Point Fermin Light was built in 1874 with lumber from California redwoods. In 1941 the light was extinguished due to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. There was fear that the light would serve as a beacon for enemy planes and ships. Later, the lantern room and gallery were removed. They were replaced by a lookout shack that remained for the next 30 years and was referred to as "the chicken coop" by locals. In 1972 the light was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The light fell into disuse and disrepair. A new lantern room and gallery were built in 1974.
The building has now been restored to its original state and is open to the public as the Point Fermin Lighthouse Historic Site and Museum.
U.S. Coast Guard Archive:
The original Fresnel lens from the lighthouse, removed in the 1940s, had been missing for decades. After being found and positively identified, on November 13, 2006, the lens was relocated to a display in the restored lighthouse museum from the real estate office of Louis Busch in Malibu, California where it had been on display.
The lighthouse is open daily except for Monday and holidays.
In 1986, the lighthouse appeared in a second-season episode of Amazing Stories, "Magic Saturday".
In June 2011, the General Services Administration made the Point Fermin Light (along with 11 others) available at no cost to public organizations willing to preserve them.
The tip of the park made for a rough lake on a very cool and breezy day and kept the bird migration at bay
Picnic Point was not very well known when I was a boy. It was located in the coastal Banksia heaths south of Bermagui on the southern coast of New South Wales, and we camped there whenever we could. It was not a campsite, and there were no toilets: one went equipped with a spade. There were, however, clearings amongst the Banksias where it was possible for us to pitch a tent, or in the even older days, to park our van, which was just big enough to accommodate my parents, lying longitudinally, and myself at right angles to them, if we slept like sardines. Picnic Point was worth all such minor discomforts.
Anyone who has not been to Australia will require some explanation of Banksias. They are named after Sir Joseph Banks, the redoubtable botanist on board Captain Cook’s Endeavour, and it is difficult to think of a more fitting or beautiful tribute. They grow to the height of small trees, their foliage a deep green on the upper surface, and a smoky white on the undersides, but it is the flowers which are most spectacular: great spikes of inflorescence, fat as hedgehogs and full of nectar, attracting honeyeaters by day and possums by night. And when the flowers go over, the Banksias produce cones, punctuated all over with pouting, woody lips, or swollen, half-closed boxers’ eyelids weeping seeds. Each morning, I would listen to the honeyeaters jabbering raucously as they clawed the Banksia flowers, and then it would be time to rekindle last night’s campfire with Banksia wood and spent cones.
After breakfast, we would take the blue and white metal enamel plates down to the beach, scour them in the sand, and wash them in the rockpools as gobies darted between our fingers. On one of the rocky parts, there was an ancient fossilised tree from the Carboniferous, as weird as the Banksias, etched in stone. And up on the point itself, there were shellfish middens: charred remains left by the aboriginals who once inhabited this coast. They too must have lain awake at dawn, laughing at the honeyeaters’ jokes.
Best of all were the evenings, perched around the campfire on one-legged stools – my father’s workmanship – brewing coffee and scorching foil-wrapped potatoes in the embers, listening for scrabblings and squeakings in the night. One night, after we had gone to bed, a bandicoot chewed all the way around the rubber seal of our car-fridge, leaving a ragged fringe of incisor-marks. Every night afterwards, we kept our eyes open for the bandicoots: a gleam of a beady eye, a glimpse of a proverbial long-nose, a snuffle in the sandy soil as the marsupial searched for grubs. There was damper kneaded with grubby fingers, and cakes made out of sea-lettuce, and once, when there were other campers beside us, there were parrot fish roasted over the flames. And then there were the night-time forays, walking the silent heath in breathless awe, carrying the glow and hiss of my father’s pressure lantern, searching for moths and glowing eyes.
Some years later, I returned to Picnic Point. It was not an easy time, and my stomach was tied in griping knots. The road was wider, not the sand track I remembered, covered with the conical traps of ant-lions. The places where we used to camp were now official National Parks and Wildlife campsites, with concrete barbecues, and somewhere in the distance, I realised with horror, there must be a toilet, concrete and reeking of disinfectant. I walked out to the point and gazed out to sea. I wandered back and paused by a Banksia, and as I did so, a honeyeater burst out of it with cackling shouts. I closed my eyes, and for a moment, I was back then.
Photograph by Leslie Watson, c. 1976.
Architect: C.F. Møller
Built in: Phase 1: 2008-2011, phase 2: 2011-
Client: Annehem Fastigheter AB
Point Hyllie will be an important part of the new urban space around Hyllie station square. The development consists of four tower blocks rising up from a column-supported base.
The tallest building will be approximately 95 m high, the next-tallest 49 m, and the final two between 29 and 23 m high. The two tallest buildings, the twin towers, will according to the architect symbolize a gateway to Sweden.
The project will encompass 300 homes as well as offices and shops, and will form a distinctive landmark in the area.
Blue Angel F18 NO.6 plane crashed here in early June 2016. Between two slave cabins, from the past, on the Sam Davis State Historical Site near Smyrna, TN. After restoration of the site you can see a treeline in the background (1700 ft.) where it finally stopped.
"Point Judith Light is located on the west side of the entrance to Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island as well as the north side of the eastern entrance to Block Island Sound. The confluence of two waterways make this area busy with water traffic and the waters around Point Judith are very cold and dangerous. Historically, even with active lighthouses, there have been many shipwrecks off these coasts.
Three light structures have been built on this site. The original 35-foot (11 m) tower, built in 1810, was destroyed by a hurricane in 1815. It was replaced in 1816, by another 35-foot stone tower with a revolving light and ten lamps. The present octagonal granite tower was built in 1856. The upper half of the tower is painted brown and the lower half white to make the light structure a more effective daymark for maritime traffic. In 1871, ship captains asked that Point Judith's fog signal be changed from a horn to whistle. This change distinguished the Point Judith light from the Beavertail Lighthouse, which used a siren to announce fog. A whistle could also be heard more distinctly over the sounds of the surf in the area. Point Judith Light was automated in 1954, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988." (Wikipedia)
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Point d'Esny wetlands, Mauritius.
This place is supposed to be a Ramsar site but other than a lone whimbrel and a lone striated heron it was devoid of birds. It is covered in mangroves so it might be the birds are hidden.
Have you ever noticed that whimbrel are easier to approach in the tropics than in the UK?
Spurn Point (also known as Spurn Head) is a narrow sand spit on the tip of the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire. It reaches into the North Sea and forms the north bank of the mouth of the Humber estuary.
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South West Coast path from West Looe to Polperro, Cornwall, UK
Point Reyes, California
Point Reyes is a prominent cape on the Pacific coast of northern California. It is located in Marin County approximately 30 mi (48 km) WNW of San Francisco. The term is often applied to the Point Reyes Peninsula, the region bounded by Tomales Bay on the northeast and Bolinas Lagoon on the southeast.
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One from the summer as I have had no luck so far with the weather this past week.
My childhood lighthouse. My parents took us to Montauk each summer from 1982 to 1997, and we would visit the lighthouse each time. Along with the Cape Elizabeth light, it formed my idea of what a lighthouse should be. I didn't see it again until about 2022, driving out two days after Thanksgiving - only to find a "light the light" party, in which it had been covered in Christmas Lights (a very unaesthetic look for my beloved lighthouse) and definitely not the "Old Montauk" I was hoping to find a few traces of. Revisiting last March finally gave me shots I was happy with, of "my" lighthouse.
"The Montauk Point Light, or Montauk Point Lighthouse, is a lighthouse located adjacent to Montauk Point State Park at the easternmost point of Long Island in Montauk, New York. The lighthouse was the first to be built within the state of New York. It is the fourth oldest active lighthouse in the United States. Montauk Point Light is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2012, it was designated as a National Historic Landmark for its significance to New York and international shipping in the early Federal period.
The lighthouse, which is located on Turtle Hill at the easternmost tip of Long Island, at 2000 Montauk Highway, is a privately run museum, and is not part of Montauk Point State Park.
Montauk Light was the first lighthouse in New York State, and is the fourth-oldest active lighthouse in the United States. The tower is 110 feet 6 inches (33.68 metres) high. The current light is a 31⁄2 order bivalve (clamshell) Fresnel lens.
On April 12, 1792, construction on the lighthouse was authorized by the 2nd United States Congress under President George Washington. Ezra L'Hommedieu, a lawyer, member of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, and a man with scientific interests, consulted with Washington on its construction. He represented the New York City Chamber of Commerce on discussions related to the lighthouse. He made the case that New York City "was first among American ports in the volume of its foreign commerce. By 1797, the harbor was handling a third of the nation's trade with other countries." Due to prevailing winds in winter, shippers approaching from sea needed a lighthouse at the end of Long Island to guide them along the south side into New York harbor.
L'Hommedieu chose the site for the lighthouse and designed it. The project began on June 7, 1796, and was completed on November 5, 1796, the first public works project of the new United States of America. Sometime in early April 1797, keeper Jacob Hand lit the wicks in the lamps in the tower, and the lighthouse began operation. It continued under civilian keepers until World War II, when the US Army took it over.
In 1860, the lighthouse station underwent a massive renovation when two new levels and a larger lantern were added. This increased the height of the tower from its original 80 feet (1796) to its current height of 110 feet 6 inches (33.68 metres). A first-order Fresnel lens—12 feet high, 6 feet (3.7 x 1.8 m) in diameter, and weighing about 10,000 pounds—was installed in the new lantern; the current keeper's dwelling was constructed adjacent to the tower, and the original 1796 dwelling was demolished. A steam-powered fog signal was installed in 1873, with a fog signal building in 1897. The tower was originally all white; its single brown stripe was added in 1899. A fourth-order fixed red range-light was added to the watch deck of the tower in 1903 to warn of Shagwong Reef, a navigational hazard about 31⁄2 miles northwest of the lighthouse. This light was severely damaged in the hurricane of September 21, 1938, and removed on July 1, 1940, when the lighthouse was electrified. The huge first-order Fresnel lens was replaced in 1903 with a 31⁄2 order bivalve Fresnel lens, which served until February 3, 1987, when it was replaced with an airport beacon with a strength of 2.5 million candela. However, as of November 6, 2023, the 31⁄2 order bivalve Fresnel lens that was replaced in 1987 has been restored and is now back atop the lighthouse.
During World War II, the lighthouse was taken over by the U.S. Army as part of the Eastern Coastal Defense Shield. The last three civilian keepers, Thomas Buckridge, Jack Miller, and George Warrington, departed in the spring of 1943.
In 1946, the United States Coast Guard took over maintenance of the lighthouse and operated it until the station was automated on February 3, 1987. In May of that year, the lighthouse museum opened to the public, operated by the Montauk Historical Society. It leased the property from the US Coast Guard for that purpose. On September 30, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed legislation transferring the lighthouse property to the Montauk Historical Society.
The tower was built on Turtle Hill 300 feet (90 m) from the edge of the cliff; due to the cumulative effects of shoreline erosion, it is now 100 feet (30 m) away from the edge. After World War II, the United States Army Corps of Engineers built a seawall at its base, but the erosion continued. The Coast Guard considered tearing down the lighthouse in 1967 and replacing it with a steel tower farther from the edge of the bluff. In the wake of protests over the announced dismantling of the tower, Congressman Michael Forbes proposed a bill to the United States Congress to hand over the Lighthouse to the Montauk Historical Society from the public so it could be preserved; the bill was passed.
On March 2, 2012, United States Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar officially designated the lighthouse as a National Historic Landmark; it is the 14th site on Long Island and the 11th lighthouse in the country to be so recognized.
Pirate Captain Kidd was said to have buried treasure at the foot of the lighthouse site around 1699 at two ponds which today are called "Money Ponds." (Wikipedia)
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The silhouette of the Pigeon Point lighthouse against the backdrop of the golden sunset in the San Mateo coast from September 2010.
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Sunset at Point Vicente on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in the Los Angeles area. On this mostly clear day, Catalina island was very visible in the distance. The lighthouse was hard at work. A beautiful spot indeed.
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