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The Point Betsie Lighthouse was built in 1858 and is listed on the National Register of Historical Places. It marks the southern entrance to the Manitou Passage, and is located just south of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and a bit north of Frankfort, Mi on the west coast of the state. The Lighthouse is owned by Benzie County and has strong volunteer support in its operation, maintenance and renovation.
Members of the Cadet Brigade Staff at parade rest prior to the Superintendent's Award Review and Parade on the Plain at the United States Military Academy at West Point on Thursday, May 29, 2008. Times Herald-Record/CHET GORDON
The Stony Point lighthouse was built in 1826, and is the oldest lighthouse on the Hudson River. In October, 1995, the lighthouse was restored, relighted, and re-opened to the public for the first time since 1925, when it was decommissioned after having served for nearly one hundred years.
The lighthouse marked the danger to ships of a rocky promontory - Stony Point peninsula. Thomas Phillips of New York built the lighthouse (an octagonal pyramid made of blue split stone) - and a nearby keepers' house for $3350.
source: Stony Point Lighthouse
On a clear day you can see forever but,
That wouldn't be as much fun!
Looking north from Obstruction Point Road to Port Angeles near Hurricane Ridge.
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Located about halfway between Santa Cruz and Half Moon Bay on California's central coast, the Pigeon Point Lighthouse is a stately 115-foot tower with a first order Fresnel lens in the lantern room. The lens is lit between 6 PM and 8 PM every November 15 for it's annual lighting celebration. The light station auxiliary buildings have been converted to hostels, housing up to 50 persons. Lighthouses are all about light so light has been added using Photoshop.
I'm experimenting with transferring some of my old film pictures to digital. This picture is from around 1994 or so. It is the resort that used to stand in High Point State Park in Sussex, NJ. I took this from the observation deck of the tower that is there. I remember it was a very humid day and I nearly had heat stroke climbing the stairs. This building was torn down sometime in the late 90's
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On the extreme right of the picture you can just see a bit of the Broadway Market.
"Fells Point's history started long before Baltimore became a city. The town was founded in 1730 by William Fell and became a major port and shipbuilding center. In 1797, the town combined with Baltimore Town and Jones Town to form the city of Baltimore. Fells Point's prosperity continued as immigrants flowed to the area to fill the jobs quickly being created. However, the professional class moved north to higher ground and lower densities, leaving behind the area's more diverse working class.
Numerous antique stores can be found along Fleet Street.
It's this diversity and working class spirit that has imbued most of Fells Point's character throughout the years. The area has some of the largest concentration of bars in the city. But in recent years more boutiques and restaurants have opened to serve the growing professional class that has come back to the area and participated in its gentrification.
Many folks from out of town had been afraid to travel east of Baltimore's Inner Harbor to visit the area. But development of the city's posh Harbor East community has replaced aging brownfields and served as a bridge, connecting the Inner Harbor with Fells Point. The area's two Main Streets include Thames and Broadway with the intersection of the two streets forming the heart of the community. Other shops and restaurants can be found along Aliceanna and Fleet Streets.
Broadway is the heart of Fells Point.
A stop at Fells Point is recommended for anyone visiting Baltimore. Almost no chains have moved into the area yet, so most stores are unique. And although this part of town has become increasingly upscale, you can still find good prices.
Retail Hours
Stores are open seven days a week. Some even have late night hours, staying open to as late as eleven p.m. or midnight.
Parking
Parking isn't too hard to find if you follow the signs. Many garages have been built in the area in recent years. On street parking may be difficult to find at peak times, however, and many sidestreets are off limits except to residents with special permits. Keep your eyes open. A new metering system has been adopted in the city for on-street parking. You place your money or credit card in a machine and in return you are issued a ticket that you post inside your car.
Restrooms
Clean public bathrooms are difficult to find. If it's an emergency, there's a "Public Comfort Station" on Aliceanna Street but this location is not recommended.
Visitor's Center
The Baltimore Waterfront Promenade connects Fells Point to the Inner Harbor.
For more information you can try the
Fells Point Visitor's Center (1724-26 Thames Street, 410-675-6751). There's also a Visitor's Information kiosk at the foot of Broadway at Thames Street.
Attractions
There are plenty of attractions in Fells Point to help give you a good idea of what makes the community special. For something you don't see everyday, step inside the
Baltimore Tattoo Museum (1534 Eastern Avenue, 410-522-5800). You may even step outside with one of your own.
There's also the Water Taxi (800-658-8947). Once popular mainly with tourists, it's starting to take off with commuters who want to bypass the clogged city streets. You can take a direct and scenic route from Fells Point to Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Another way to travel between the two communities is to walk along the Baltimore Waterfront Promenade, which rings almost entirely around the harbor.
Fells Point may be known for its nightlife, but if you want to meet a different kind of "nightlife," check out Baltimore Ghost Tours (410-522-7400) featuring The Original Fells Point Ghost Walk and The Fells Point Haunted Pub Walk.
Tips
Broadway Market (South Broadway between Fleet & Lancaster Streets, 410-396-3100) is one of several markets that are unique to Baltimore. It features a collection of stalls selling a wide variety of foods. You can eat at a counter or get takeout and enjoy your lunch at one of the local parks.
Also, for that local Fells Point flavor, you'll want to try some crabs and one of the best places for that is Obrycki's (1727 East Pratt Street, 410-732-6399). They were listed in the book, 1,000 Places to See Before You Die. So you know you gotta visit.
There's also Bertha's Restaurant and Bar (734 South Broadway, 410-327-5795), one of Baltimore's favorites. Their specialty is mussels, which they sell with a wide variety of dipping sauces."
A 6*6 point elk is called Royal. A 7*7 point elk is called Imperial. A 8*8 point elk is called Monarch.
Tonight, 1 June 2018, I have just added six extra photos, to get them into my albums. I will be so glad when I eventually come to a few photos that I feel better about uploading. I am trying to post more or less in the order that the photos were taken, and unfortunately, there are so many odds and ends that I want to keep just for the record. I promise that, later on, I will have photos of some very different things - thank goodness.
Not having much success with seeing and photographing all the tiny, very fast-moving Warblers at Pt Pelee, I was delighted to come across a few fungi. Not much variety, as it was still only spring. Not sure, but I think this is Dryad's Saddle fungus / Polyporus squamosus aka Cerioporus squamosus.
Four friends (four of the six friends with whom I went to Trinidad & Tobago in March 2017) and I left Calgary airport on 6 May 2018 and flew to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. There, we rented a van and did the long drive to Point Pelee for four whole days of birding. We stayed at the Best Western Hotel in Leamington, which is close to Point Pelee National Park. It fills up very quickly (with birders) and our rooms were booked months ago.
Our four days walking at Point Pelee were interesting and I, for sure, saw various things I had never seen before, including my very first Raccoon : ) Various friends had told me that the Warblers at Pelee were fantastic - so many and numerous species, and so close. Have to disagree with the "closeness" when we were there! I don't have binoculars as cameras are enough for me to carry around, so I know I missed all sorts of birds. Though my Warbler count was lower than my friends' counts, I was happy to at least get a few distant photos of some species. So many of my shots are awful, but I will still post some of them, just for the record of seeing them. Some photos are so bad that I doubt anyone can ID them.
We covered several different trails at Pelee, and also drove to a few places somewhat further afield, such as Hillman Marsh. If you are unfamiliar with this Conservation Area, just wait till you see a photo of the old barn that was there. I couldn't believe my eyes! I was in so much pain that I wasn't sure if I would be able to walk across a grassy area to take a few photos. However, it was so unusual and beautiful, that I reckoned I could try and move forward inch by inch - and crawl (ha, ha) if necessary. Another place we enjoyed was Rondeau National Park. One amazing and totally unexpected sighting just outside Pelee was a very distant male Snowy Owl sitting in a fieldl!!
We walked every single day that we were at Pelee and the areas mentioned above, seeing not just birds, but a frog/toad, snakes that we suspect were mating, several Painted turtles, a few plants (including both white and red Triliums, that I had never seen growing wild before, and a couple of Jack in the Pulpit plants).
The Friends of Point Pelee have food available at lunch time that one can buy. They also have a shuttle bus that one can take from the Visitor Centre all the way to the southern tip of Pelee, which is the most southern part of Canada. They also have birding walks with a guide each day (there is a charge). On 9 May, we spent the morning from 6:00 am to 11:00 am on a birding walk at Pelee with guide, Tom Hince, whom we had contacted while we were still in Calgary.
At the end of our stay at Point Pelee, we had to drive all the way back to Toronto, from where we flew to Quebec airport. From there, we had a four-hour drive to Tadoussac on the coast of the St. Lawrence Seaway. This is such a delightful, small place and in a beautiful setting. One of our friends, Anne B, and her husband have a summer cabin further along the cliff from the few stores and port. She had invited the four of us to go with her from Pelee to spend a week at her beautiful home. What an absolute treat this was! We were able to meet some of her relatives, too, who also have built cabins out there. We were looked after so well, and we were able to see and photograph all sorts of birds and other things. We made several trips to see different places, including the Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area, where we were able to see endless thousands of Snow Geese. Breathtaking!
We also had two boat trips from Tadoussac - one was a whaling trip in a Zodiac, where we saw very, very distant Beluga and Minke Whales. The Belugas looked almost like the white wave crests - but they were Belugas. The other boat trip was to Brandy Pot Island, inhabited by thousands of Razorbills and Common Murres, which were new birds for me, and Double-crested Cormorants that were nesting in tree tops. That long boat trip (in a tiny boat named Juno, piloted by Greg) started off in the rain and dark clouds and it was soooo cold! Thermal underwear, layers of fleece and toque and gloves were needed. This day was arranged through a contact of Anne's and it was so much enjoyed! Of course, we anchored a distance away from the island and sat there and ate our sandwiches and took endless photos. It is forbidden to land on the island at nesting time.
Anne B, I can't thank you enough for organizing this holiday for us all and for inviting us to spend a week at your cabin. You worked so hard and it was so much appreciated by each and every one of us. Thank you for doing all the many hours of driving, too! Janet and Anne, thank you so much for compiling the lists of birds seen each day at various locations, and posted to ebird. These entries will be a huge help while I try and sort out where we were and when, and what species we saw. Miss your cookies and muffins, Janet, that you kindly made for us in Tadoussac, to go along with the wonderful meals that Anne planned and made for us : )
Old old photo that I re-worked. This is a sunrise at inspiration point at Letchworth State Park, Geneseo, NY.
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Donated rings are displayed prior to the West Point Association of Graduates' ring melt ceremony Jan. 25, 2019. Fifty-five rings were donated and melted. The gold will be used as part of the Class of 2020’s rings, which they will receive in August. The tradition started in 2001 and to date, 575 rings have been donated. Each year, a portion of the previous year’s melt is included to tie each of the classes together. (U.S. Army Photo by Brandon O'Connor)
Continuing work on a really small model railway built into the top of a toolbox.
I started on the idea of making a small n gauge shunting layout in the top of a toolbox two years ago and now I'm finally building it.
Read more detail on AC's Miscellaneous Model Mixture Blog by clicking here; misc-model-mix.weebly.com/blog/a-model-railway-in-a-toolbox
The Point Perpendicular Lighthouse was established in 1899 to replace the inaccurately placed Cape St George Lighthouse.
The original 1860 lighthouse had been built in the wrong position due to inadequate supervision by the authorities of the day. It was not visible to the northern approach at Jervis Bay and failed to warn of offshore reefs.
Even though when the error was realised it was intended to show a light at Cape St George only as a temporary measure it was not until 1898, over 30 years later, that work began on its replacement on the northern side of the entrance to the bay.
This tower is believed to be a "first" in New South Wales. It is erected on a flat concrete base and is the first tower to be constructed of concrete blocks - made on the ground - lifted into position, then cement-rendered on both the inside and the outside.
This building technique eliminated the use of heavy scaffolding and shuttering which is necessary for the "concrete poured" construction of towers.
Most of the stores and materials for the new lighthouse were landed at Bindijine Wharf, constructed in 1898, on Honeymoon Bay inside the sheltered side of Jervis itself. They were then carted by house and cart to Point Perpendicular.
The original apparatus was vapourised kerosene, 100,000 cd with a range of 33 kilometres. The power was increased to 222,000 cd in 1909 and again to 316,000 in 1923. The light was converted to electric operation in 1964 with the installation of 2 diesel generators. When to light was finally replaced in 1993 the power was 1,200,000 cd.
The new "lattice" style tower is solar powered and the lightstation has been demanned.
There was much protest when the Department of Defence fenced off the area preventing public access to the lighthouse even though it had been agreed that access should continue. There have been mixed reports about what the current situation is though the restriction does seem to have been relaxed.
Also the keepers complex was put on the market at this time and it is also not known what the outcome has been.
The window above the main door is interesting as it displays the Waratah, the state flower of New South Wales, and the construction date of the tower.
The light was last lit by Ian Clifford on Saturday 17 November 1999 for the Seafarer's Festival Ball and to celebrate the centenary of Point Perpendicular.
ELEVATION: 93 metres
RANGE: 26 nautical miles (42 kilometres)
HEIGHT: 21.4 metres