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Point Fermin Lighthouse. Point Fermin Lighthouse was the lighthouse for the Port of Los Angeles from 1874 to 1942. As an aid to navigation, it guided ships around the Point Fermin cliff sand and into San Pedro harbor. It was built in 1874 when Phineas Banning was dredging a navigable channel to Wilmington and developing San Pedro harbor as an ocean port.
Point Fermin Lighthouse is designed in the Stick Style popular at the time and used for several other contemporary lighthouses. (Long before Mission Revival came into being.) With all the Victorian gingerbread it is a very cute structure indeed. The lighthouse was in operation until 1942. It was tended by lighthouse keepers who lived with their families in the lower section of the lighthouse. During World War II, radar gear replaced the light and the building became one of the first radar stations. After the war, the lighthouse was used by the parks department for maintenance of Point Fermin Park. Point Fermin Lighthouse was restored to its original appearance in 2001 and opened to tours in 2003. 805 Paseo del Mar.
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Point Vicente Coast Guard Station in Palos Verdes, California
ARLHS USA-640; USCG 6-0170; Admiralty G3886.00
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Print Competition at Seven Sisters.....I'm the print co-ordinator and had spent most of the day making sure all was in order for the evening.
Needhams Point lighthouse is situated in the grounds of the Hilton Barbados hotel on the south-west coast of the island. It is the second oldest lighthouse in Barbados dating back to 1855. Located at the south end of Carlisle Bay, this octagonal lighthouse played an important role in guiding ships into this safe harbour. Unlike the other lighthouse in Barbados the Needhams Point lighthouse featured a stationary rather than rotating light. The lighthouse became neglected and for years was used as storage for the Hilton, and ran a serious risk of being destroyed. Not until the remodeling of the Hilton did the lighthouse escape this fate. It has been repaired and sits very close to the hotel, actually dwarfed by the hotel. But at least, it still stands.
Photograph taken at Needhams Point on Carlisle Bay in Bridgetown, Barbados: February 16, 2011
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A view along the coastal edge of the rocky slabs near Langaton Point, Stroma. The rocks are made of Old Red Sandstone.
"Following overland tests at Salisbury Plain during March 1897, on May 13, the Italian born and recently British based inventor, best known for his development of a radiotelegraph system, Guglielmo Marconi, assisted by George Kemp (who was a Cardiff based Post Office engineer) transmitted and received the first wireless signals over open sea from Lavernock Point to Flat Holm island. The very first message transmitted in morse code was "ARE YOU READY". This was immediately followed by "CAN YOU HEAR ME" to which the reply was "YES LOUD AND CLEAR".
The initial tests were so successful over the three and a third mile (6 kilometres) stretch of water that it was quickly decided to relocate the telegraph equipment from Flat Holm to Brean Down Fort, near Weston Super Mare increasing the distance to nearly ten miles (16 kilometres) from the Lavernock Point transmitter.
Following these successful trials, Marconi subsequently vested his new patent rights in his 'Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company'.
On the point in the late 1860s Lavernock Fort gun battery was built by the Royal Commission and completed in 1870, with three 7" muzzle loading cannons to protect the channel approaches to Cardiff and Bristol shipyards during the short lived war between Britain and France that followed the French Revolution. Sometime before 1895 the gun battery was reinforced with a fourth cannon only for all four guns to be replaced eight years later by two rapid fire six inch former naval guns in 1903. A two unit searchlight battery was added during the Second World War. Today the remaining main section of the gun battery has been listed as an Ancient Monument, which includes the gun emplacements, director-rangefinder observation position, crew and officers quarters."
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Finally found some time to explore the new Greenway access right in the heart of the city. Though no wildlife was evident this windy afternoon, it was a great walk meandering along the Gordon River. Greenway, Naples, FL
One foggy July night at Point Cabrillo. Thanks to the fog I was able to get many great shots of the beams at night. It is quite the experience to see them in person!
Ryan taken with a happy snappy camera in the teeth, while I belay him up the nice Man Overboard **
Point Perpendicular, NSW.
Australia.
May 26, 2011
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Boracay Day 4:
Departure from Boracay. Will surely miss the beach and all the fun we had!
Some pictures of the Point Retreat Lighthouse (Located on the northern tip of Admiralty Island, twenty-one miles northwest of Juneau). We did not get that close to the lighthouse, but passed it on our way back. However, it was right after there was a heavy downpour and my zoom lens filter (unknown to me) was not threaded correctly, so moisture got in. Much to my agony, I was not able to get the filter off. I took some pictures anyway. I also processed them with Lightroom Classic and IrfanView. I think they do a pretty good job of capturing the lighthouse! Very happy that I got some nice lighthouse pictures on this excursion. We also passed Point Retreat the following day, but I was not fast enough and in a place to get more pictures. Next time! Pictures from our excursion in Juneau - "Whale Watching and Wildlife Quest." We have never had as good a whale watching expedition as we had in Juneau. We left from Auke Bay and spent much of the time in the Favorite Channel. The whale watching was spectacular on this cloudy and rainy day in Alaska. Taken on September 4th, 2022 on our port call to Juneau, Alaska. From our balcony room on the port side of the ship, we were able to see seaplanes taking off and landing. Great fun seeing these planes in Juneau. Beautiful visit to the Alaskan State Capital. On board the Royal Caribbean Ovation of the Seas for the seven night Alaska Experience Cruise (September 2nd through 9th, 2022). The cruise embarks from Seattle, Washington and the itinerary includes stops in Juneau (AK), Skagway (AK), Sitka (AK) and Victoria (British Columbia, Canada) before heading back to Seattle.
Point Iroquois Light is a lighthouse on a Chippewa County bluff in the U.S. state of Michigan. Point Iroquois and its light mark the division line between Whitefish Bay and the western end of the St. Marys River, the connection between Lake Superior and other Great Lakes.
La pointe de Trévignon, sur laquelle se dresse une villa-château (propriété privée), s'avance dans l'océan en direction du sud-ouest, et constitue le point le plus au sud de la commune de Trégunc2. Le port de Trévignon est protégé par une jetée équipée d’un phare. En son centre une construction sur pilotis abrite le canot de la SNSM. La pointe de Trévignon est entourée de petites plages et constitue le point de départ pour la visite de la zone naturelle protégée des étangs de Trévignon
Trégunc [tʁegœ̃] est une commune du département du Finistère, dans la région Bretagne, en France. C'est l'une des communes les plus étendues du Finistère, qui regroupe de nombreux villages ou hameaux. On peut mentionner plusieurs plages de sable fin, une zone naturelle protégée pour la faune et la flore autour des marais de Trévignon.
La commune de Trégunc est située sur le littoral Atlantique, dans le Finistère, au sud de Concarneau et à l'ouest de Pont-Aven. Le bourg, situé à l'intérieur des terres, occupe une position excentrée au nord de la commune.
Le finage communal est délimité à l'ouest par le fleuve côtier Minaouët et l'Anse du Moulin à Mer ; au nord il longe la D 122 qui traverse le hameau de Croaz Hent Bouillet, partagé avec les communes de Melgven et Concarneau ; au nord-est le ruisseau de Kerfrances et le ruisseau du Moulin de Kergunus, tous deux affluents de rive gauche du Minaouët, servent de tracé à la limite communale avec Pont-Aven (avec en fait l'ancienne commune de Nizon) ; à l'est la limite communale avec Névez suit pour partie le tracé du ruisseau de Dourveil.
La présence de plusieurs petits fleuves côtiers déjà cités pour ceux qui servent de limite communale, mais d'autres ont leur cours totalement dans la commune de Trégunc comme ceux qui aboutissent aux plages de Trez Cao et de La Baleine, et de leurs affluents entraîne un relief assez vallonné car ils échancrent le plateau par ailleurs en pente générale vers le sud, les zones les plus élevées se trouvant au nord de la commune, atteignant 84 mètres d'altitude à l'est de Kerstrat et même 88 mètres à l'est de Cros Hent Bouillet. Le bourg, ainsi que toute la partie médiane du territoire communal, se trouve vers une quarantaine de mètres d'altitude ; la partie méridionale, proche de l'Océan Atlantique se trouve vers une vingtaine de mètres d'altitude, par exemple autour des hameaux de Trévignon, Saint-Philibert et Kersidan.
Le littoral de Trégunc est très découpé : à l'ouest, limitrophe de l'ancienne commune de Lanriec, désormais de Concarneau, l'Anse de Pouldohan est une ria aux multiples indentations, se subdivisant principalement en deux parties principales : la branche nord-est forme l'Anse du Moulin à Mer, qui se prolonge en amont par la ria du Minaouët, et qui possède elle-même une ramification, l'Anse de Kerambreton ; la branche sud-est, séparée de la précédente par la Ponte de Grignallou, l'Anse de Pouldohan stricto sensu se subdivise elle aussi, sa partie orientale formant l'Anse de Ster Greich. Peu profonde, l'Anse de Pouldohan découvre largement à marée basse.
Hopi Point is a good spot to shoot a sunrise along the south rim of the Grand Canyon. The hard part is facing the @ 25 degree morning!
Canon 5D Mark III
Canon 16-35mm f/2.8L @ 21mm, ISO160, f/16, 1/125 Sec.
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