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"The Point Reyes". The Point Reyes has seen more seaworthy days, but she is still a beauty. Taken at sunset yesterday evening with a beautiful low fog hovering over Tomales Bay in the warm pink light.
A section of the vernal pool system in Bishop's Bog Preserve, in Portage, Michigan. These short-lived seasonal bodies of water provide the jumping-off point for all sorts of creatures ... fairy shrimp, some frogs, and, yes, mosquitoes.
Castle Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse near the village of Castlepoint in the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is owned and operated by Maritime New Zealand
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Après une nuit quelque peu givrante, le levé de soleil réchauffe doucement l'atmosphère...
Plus à venir...
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Grand view of Half Dome at Glacier Point, Vernel Falls and Nevada Falls on the lower right, Yosemite National Park, California.
Pierce Point Ranch is one of the oldest ranches on the Point Reyes Peninsula and was one of the most successful dairy ranches of its time.
Now it is just a note in a brochure.
The 17 floor octagonal tower of the Wrest Point Casino Hotel makes a striking contrast with the 1939 Art Deco styled building from the original Riviera Hotel. Normally this entrance driveway would be full of cars unloading guests, but with borders closed tourists are very scarce indeed.
The buildings of the Riviera Hotel were in fact used to keep people in quarantine during the initial lock down phase of the Covid-19 crisis. But now, even most of those have gone. Grim times indeed for the hospitality industry.
The Wrest Point Tower was designed by Australia's leading architect of the times, Sir Roy Grounds. It is described as a Dodecagonal prism tower, 64 metres in height. To this day it is still the tallest building in Hobart. There is a revolving restaurant on the top floor. It was opened on February 10, 1973.
For the more scholarly minded, here is a paper entitled: "The Significance of Wrest Point in
Tasmania's Tourism and Hospitality Industry."
pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0210/f194707fe51bb05eecc0d2e856a...
Tomorrow I'll tell you a little more about how Australia's first casino got its license.
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]
This area is just downstream and on a side channel from the main falls of Great Falls National Park. These rocks are pointing in the direction of the main channel of the Potomac River just below the main falls. The water level is low and has exposed this outcropping of rocks in the river.
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Fort Point State Park
Stockton Springs
Waldo County, Maine
Continuing from Portland toward Bar Harbor, we made a slight detour to Fort Point Lighthouse, checking off another Maine lighthouse not previously visited. Located near the mouth of the Penobscot River on Penobscot Bay, Fort Point Light Station was established in 1836; the current keeper's house and light tower were built in 1857. The lantern room atop the square tower has a 4th-order Fresnel lens with a 250 watt halogen bulb and focal plane of 88 feet, providing a beacon visible 10 miles away; the light and fog signal are automated. Fort Point Light Station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987 (87002269). Fort Pownall, the fort at this location, was built in 1759 at the urging of Massachusetts Governor Thomas Pownall (Maine was then part of Massachusetts -- Maine became a state in 1820), to help keep the French and Indians out of the coastal area. In March 1775, the Loyalist in charge of Fort Pownall worked with British forces to remove guns from fort, but American forces burned the blockhouse and filled the moat, making the fort useless to the British. Fort Pownall Memorial was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969 (69000028). Both National Register sites are now part of the 120-acre Fort Point State Park; created in 1974, the park has more than one mile of Penobscot River frontage.
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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.
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.
Beautiful pointing Viszla with bokeh in the background. Belle loves to lift her front paw when she stands still, makes her look more like a pointer than a Viszla!
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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