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Fort Point, San Francisco. Typical "summer" day in San Francisco: High fog making dull, featureless gray sky and cold wind. Yep. Bring a sweater in summer in SF :)
Point Vincent Lighthouse at sunset. Copyrighted to Karl Le Photography
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Point Wild, Elephant Island 2015.
It was here that Frank Wild, the forgotten hero of Shackleton’s 1915 expedition, survived in charge of 21 men on a diet of seal, penguin and seaweed. After his heroic exploit Shackleton returned to rescue the men over 120 days later.
We attempted a landing but it was too windy.
The Yellow-breasted Chat is an Endangered species in Ontario with approximately 30-60 breeding pairs. For nesting chats prefer early successional habitat with a dense shrub layer. Hopefully it finds a mate and sticks around to nest at the Point.
Hollow Point Smile:
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Point Betsie Light, North of Frankfort, MI in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
Photographed on Fuji Velvia 100 using a Nikon F5 and a Nikkor 28-85mm lens with a polariser.
I went on a bucket list trip to California in 2024. While I was there, whale watching was also on my list. So we launched from Dana Point into the bay. While we didn't see any whales... we were graced with the presence of two huge pods of dolphins! A monumental moment in time.
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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
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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"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."
Point Park graduated 685 undergraduate students during its 53rd Annual Commencement ceremony held at CONSOL Energy Center in Downtown Pittsburgh on May 4, 2013.
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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
Went to Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio with a few friends. Had an amazing time, they take roller coasters seriously!!
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!
Point Cabrillo is named after the Spanish explorer Juan RodrÃguez Cabrillo, although Cabrillo's voyage of exploration along the California coast did not reach as far north as the point.
Point Cabrillo Lighthouse was established in 1909, displaying a 3rd Order Standard Lens and Air Sirens. It is located about 1.5 miles south of Fort Bragg, California. With the exception of a small barn, all original buildings stand unaltered. In 1935, an air diaphone supertyfone sound signal was installed. The United States Coast Guard manned the station until 1973, when the lens was covered and a modern rotating beacon was mounted on a metal stand on the roof west of the lantern room. In 1991 the light station was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It has been a California State Park since 2002.
The historic wigwags in Point Richmond, Richmond, California.
Learn more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigwag_(railroad)#In_modern_America_and_elsewhere
(My photo is in the article)
May 26, 2011
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Boracay Day 4:
Departure from Boracay. Will surely miss the beach and all the fun we had!
The first ship was launched from Point Hope Shipyard in Victoria's Inner Harbour in 1875. The yard has been in service ever since and the most recent owner has been one of the most successful in the history of the yard. He has ambitious plans for a long term future.
Its geographic location in the city is ideal for ship repair, maintenance and building small to mid size vessels or components for larger vessels. It's protected from the rougher waters of the outer harbour or the weather attendant at more distant and more open bays.
The owner confided recently, that without that location, the yard would not likely be viable. They have carved out a niche and intend to stay where they are.
Victoria will always be a city where marine industry is central to the city's economic vitality and, with a history nearly as old as the city itself, likely to be a fixture for decades into the future.
An issue raised again in casual conversation, and one I have heard too many times before, is that the city is overspending to provide a lift bridge for industries with no future or, sometimes from the same sources, do not contribute to the cost of the bridge.
Much of the spurious debate over the bridge, the design and the other issues of process and expense also cost me my job. Critics chipped away at support, even among those who should be easily convinced by the facts and rational arguments. The desire for a cheap and simplistic solution is a powerful attraction in the debate over spending tax dollars.
Ship repair is a profession as old as civilzation and there is no reason to suspect that it will disappear from our shores anytime soon, if it all. Why, in fact, would we want to export the jobs associated with the industry? We owe it to ourselves and our important economic sectors to provide them with the best supports we can offer.
Provided that those appropriate supports are in place (a proper lift structure that provides sufficient vertical and horizontal clearance for the ships coming in and out of the harbour to and from the yard, as well as though serving those few other industries, they will be in business for at least as long as the bridge is designed to serve.
Like so many other projects that our taxpayers don't want to spend on, the issue of thumbing our collective noses at senior government authorities is also just not possible. We're required to keep navigation open, (amongst other responsibilities we have to the province or federal governments). It is not credible to suggest that one small city can dismiss the requirements every other city in the country is obliged to follow, or at least in this case every other city with a waterfront,
The premise too that the shipyard and other marine industries that rely on a lift bridge should pay tolls or contribute directly to the capital costs is also unsupportable by the facts. Wtih about 150 jobs and more than 250 more on the way, plus the enormous spin offs of subcontracting to around 600 other local businesses, the shipyard pays plenty in supporting the robust economy we need to run our city, and that means renewing, or as needs be, replacing our infrastructure. As an industrial taxpayer, the shipyard also adds considerably to the city's revenue stream, so one way and another, they are paying at least their fare share of the costs of the bridge.
It is sometimes hard to confront people with the facts and the more detailed expalnations of how decisions are informed. This too, however, chipped away at some of my votes as various interests concocted more, often fictional critiques of an important project. The bridge will proceed and our ships will continue to come in.
A small sampling of the shps of Point Hope, and more to come, can be found in the set dedicated to illustrating the flotilla of vessels that have come and gone. It may allow you to judge for yourself how vital and vibrant this industry is. Is it something we want to chase away?
More at: www.flickr.com/photos/luton/sets/72157622890679725/