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Browns Point, Tacoma, with Mt Rainier in the background. Seems like it is about 2 miles from the shoreline, not 50!
Spurn Head, or Spurn Point, is a three and a half mile peninsula, composed of sand and shingle, stretching out between the North Sea and the River Humber in a south-westerly direction. The first peninsula developed after the retreat of the last Ice Age, and how it came into existence and how it develops and changes cannot be certainly proven. Its course is not fixed, because it is attached to one of the fastest eroding coasts in the world — the Holderness coast. One theory, supported by historical records, postulates a cyclical history of about 250 years for each of the various peninsulas, which have grown gradually as a result of long-shore drift of material washed out of the clay cliffs to the north. The profile of each peninsula, which grows from a stump, is low, allowing a certain amount of washover of sand, which helps to build it up on the western side, whilst most of the material moves further south and forms a spoon-shaped point. With the rapid erosion of the coast to which it is attached, a breach is inevitable eventually, and once the sea gets through, the head becomes isolated and gradually washes away. A new peninsula then forms a little to the west and the cycle starts again. Another theory gives more emphasis to the washover of the neck, and suggests that as the sand and other material is transported from east to west, the neck gradually shifts westward, presumably moving the head with it. It is not possible to test these theories thoroughly because since mid-Victorian times Spurn has been kept in place by artificial coastal defences, begun after a massive breach which took place in 1849, when the peninsula was composed of a string of islets. The groynes and revetments to protect the peninsula were first erected by the Board of Trade, but when military forts were established on the Point (see below) the Army took over, with the Royal Engineers, and later civilians, working upon the maintenance of the sea defences, until the late 1950s, when the military left. Because of these man-made sea defences the peninsula is now the longest it has ever been, and since the 1850s has been kept in the same alignment, making it highly vulnerable to attacks from north-westerly tidal surges in the North Sea. In 1960 Spurn was bought by the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Trust (now the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust), which could not afford to maintain the defences, and they are now crumbling away. At the northern end of the peninsula only about three yards (three metres) of land now separate the high tide mark on the Humber from the high tide mark on the sea.
Point Souttar is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the western side of Yorke Peninsula on the portion forming the south coast of Hardwicke Bay in Spencer Gulf about 121 kilometres west of the Adelaide city centre.
One of the two trail heads for the lookout. From this point the trip is about a mile. We drove up the road a bit to the other trail head where the trip is about a half mile.
Gird Point Lookout. Bitterroot National Forest, Montana.
Beautiful sunrise today at Wellington Point, Queensland, Australia. Taken at dawn.
Filters: Little Stopper and .6 grad.
Here's a wish for a calm Monday for everyone! Taken at Meigs Point in Hammonasset Beach State Park near Madison, Connecticut.
Glacier Point sits at an elevation of 7,214 feet (about 3,200 feet above the valley below). From here you have views of Yosemite Valley, including Half Dome, Yosemite Falls and Clouds Rest. Watching the sunset from here was probably one of the best parts of the trip to Yosemite.
Point Bolivar Light is a historic lighthouse in Port Bolivar, Texas, that was built in 1872. It served for 61 years before being retired in 1933, when its function was replaced by a different light. The current lighthouse is at least the second structure at the site. The first lighthouse was built in the mid-1850s and was pulled down during the Civil War so that Union warships could not use it as a navigational aid.
Pacemaker Crown Graphic - Schneider-Kreuznack Symmar-S 1:5.6/210 - Kodak Plus-X Pan (PXP) @ ASA-125
Kodak HC-110 Dil. B 5:00 @ 20C
All the pages for the " Entry Point" booklet. We've ordered them as individual 4x6 postcards with round corners and brought them to a local printing company (Concord Printing - thanks Ben!) to drill a hole (where the metal ring will be inserted). After this process we got lots of help from church volunteers to assemble 500 of them.
Point Wilson Lighthouse - Port Townsend, Washington
This lighthouse was built in 1913.
I used a kite to fly the camera.
Crisp Point Light sits on a remote portion of Michigan's Upper Peninsula along the Lake Superior shore. The lighthouse sits west of Paradise and north of Newburry and was completed by 1904. It is quite an adventure to get there, but it is a beautiful site. Were there no black biting flies, it would have been a perfect day. I will write about this later. Still, I was able to get around while being eaten alive by the worst bugs on the planet.
The rickety little bridge to Point Bonita lighthouse can only be crossed by two people at a time. This is the way back from the lighthouse.
Point Pinos Lighthouse
Pacific Grove, CA
You might wondering why many people shooting the lighthouse from this angle. That's because the gate is locked after 4pm. The only good spot to shoot the lighthouse is to stand upon the garbage can just outside the gate.
For 175 years Nash Point lighthouse, designed by James Walker, the Engineer-in-Chief to Trinity House, has been keeping the mariner safe of Nash Sands, the sandbanks off the point at the entrance to the Bristol Channel.
Nash Point Lighthouse was the last manned lighthouse in Wales. Since 1998 it has been automatically operated and is monitored by Trinity House's Control Centre at Harwich.
Original Caption: City Point, Va
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 111-B-678
From:: Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, (Record Group 111)
Photographer: Brady, Mathew, 1823 (ca.) - 1896
Coverage Dates: ca. 1860 - ca. 1865
Subjects:
American Civil War, 1861-1865
Brady National Photographic Art Gallery (Washington, D.C.)
Persistent URL: catalog.archives.gov/id/525083
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"A much-photographed Tomales Bay icon, the derelict fishing boat the Point Reyes, was severely damaged by a mysterious fire early Monday morning, and comments from angry Inverness residents are burning up social media over the loss of this beloved local landmark."
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United States Military Academy holds the Branch Recognition Parade followed by the Boxing Rumble on diagonal walk/apron and in north area of West Point, New York on September 9, 2022. Each branch gets to show off their assets and is named in a parade of branch capabilities. (U.S. Army Photo by John Pellino/USMA)
Local Accession Number: 06_11_002555
Title: Point Poiphery. LesBoulvards
Statement of responsibility: photographed by B.F. Childs
Creator/Contributor: Childs, B. F. (Brainard F.), approximately 1841-1921 (photographer)
Genre: Stereographs; Photographic prints
Created/Published: Houghton, Mich. : C. B. Brubaker. publisher
Date issued: 1850-1920 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph ; 9 x 18 cm.
General notes: Part of series: Gems of Lake Superior scenery.; No. 291.; Title from item.
Date notes: Date supplied by cataloger.
Subjects: Rock formations
Collection: Stereographs
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Shelf locator: Michigan; Lake Superior
Rights: No known copyright restrictions.