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Split Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse located in Aireys Inlet, a small town on the Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia.
Originally called Eagles Nest Point, the lighthouse was constructed in 1891. For 27 years, three lighthouse keepers worked at this remote location, ensuring the light was operating well and communicating with ships via a number of code systems. The lighthouse still has its original construction with a wonderful staircase and timber fittings. The lantern still operates having had more than three different light sources over its history. The tower was converted to automatic operation in 1919, using acetylene gas to provide the illumination. It was upgraded to electric operation in 1972. The keepers' cottages and stables form an intrinsic part of the lighthouse precinct.
The original British-made Chance Brothers first order Fresnel lens is still in use. However, the factory near Birmingham, England, where the lens was built, was bombed during war-time and the essential formula for making the unique lens crystal was lost, should a replacement ever be needed. The fixed-light lantern still lights the way for thousands of vessels using a combination of lighting colors. Under standard Australian lighthouse convention, red filters would usually be placed to the extreme left and right of the beam (indicating "danger zones" for a passing ship, in-line with the jagged coastline). For reasons unknown, the Split Point Lighthouse operated for a number of years under the opposite system; although this has now been corrected. The Split Point lighthouse is 34 metres tall and stands 66 metres above sea level.
Many scenes from the children's television series Round the Twist were filmed at or around the area of the Split Point Lighthouse.
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the distinctive octaganol tower of Split Rock Lighthouse situated on the cliffs of the north shore of Lake Superior
SUNSET - Florida Everglades U.S.A.
Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge
Clear Winter Sky - January 1st, 2022
South Florida - Palm Beach County, FL
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*[Split-the-Difference - New Years Day]
When I used to go out every day to photograph hummingbirds, I'd head off to the gardens at Heather Farm Preserve, and it's there that in between shots, I spotted my second Flower Crab Spider.
Members of this family of spiders do not spin webs, and are ambush predators. The two front legs are usually longer and more robust than the rest of the legs. The back two legs are smaller, and are usually covered in a series of strong spines. And I saw several that would lie in wait in the middle of some flowers, waiting for hours to pounce on an unsuspecting honey bee. I just happened to be watching this spider as the bee landed, and then I saw him grab hold of the bee in a split second. From what I understand, that bee will last him a week.
The Thomisidae are a family of spiders, including about 170 genera and over 2,100 species. The common name crab spider is often linked to species in this family, but is also applied loosely to many other families of spiders. Many members of this family are also known as flower spiders or flower crab spiders. Just because there are so many species doesn't guarantee success. Remember these spiders a just a quarter of an inch...
Split Rock Lighthouse, Lake Superior North Shore, Minnesota
After a storm on Nov. 28, 1905 had damaged 29 ships, Congress authorized $70,000 to build a lighthouse and fog signal at Split Rock. The light station was completed in 1910.
The light was taken out of service in 1969 when modern navigation methods made it obsolete, but the beacon is lit once a year on November 10th to commemorate the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
I have made the beacon lighting ceremony the last two years, and I plan on going every year for as long as I can still make it. Yes, it's cold on the North Shore in November, but if you have a love of history, beauty, and a need for an unexplainable sense of something unexplainable, the trip is well worth it!
Learn More about the history of the Split Rock light.
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Poppy Parker Split Decision rerooted by me
Fashion credits:
lingerie and shoes: Barbie Jazz Baby
A little side trail off the Split Rock Side Trail takes you through this fissure, which parallels the escarpment face.
1966 green and white split screen VW camper van. For sale on Soutborough Common today, a snip at £10,000!
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The Cathedral of St. Domnius is a complex of a church, formed from an Imperial Roman mausoleum, with a bell tower; Together they form the Cathedral of Saint Domnius, consecrated at the turn of the 7th century AD, is regarded as the oldest Catholic cathedral in the world that remains in use in its original structure, without near-complete renovation at a later date (though the bell tower dates from the 12th century). The structure itself, built in AD 3 is within Diocletian's Palace.
Now that the fall colors are gone for the season, it's not quite at pretty as it could be but still nice to visit all the sites on the north shore of MN.
Sunburst metal panel on the side of a restaurant.
NOT photoshopped or app created or post-processed, except for adding my watermark.
I walked passed the side of the building and went back to it. Instant abstract with some crazy lady with an iPhone in her hand.....me!!!
OK Mr. Geologist guy, let's hear an explanation for this little rock. The rock is attached to the underlying layer of sandstone - why it is two colors with a little racing stripe down the center is beyond me.
Croatian National Theatre / Hrvatsko Narodno Kazalište u Splitu - Old Town of Split - Dalmatia - Hrvatska / Croatia
Split gill (Schizophylum commune) fungus growing on a tree trunk.
Rozszczepka pospolita (Schizophylum commune) rosnąca na pniu drzewa.
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Split Rock Lighthouse
Split Rock SP, MN
Tech:
Nikon D800
Nikon 24-70mm
ISO 50
70mm
F-22
1/3 - 2.5 sec
7 shot enfuse
Sep 29 2012
7:34:01 PM