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Built in 1912 this lighthouse is 141 feet above New York's Lower Bay. The buff-colored bricks that shape the 90 foot octagonal structure and the large brackets beneath the tower make the Staten Island Lighthouse an architectural beauty. The lighthouse ranges with the West Bank Lighthouse (Front Range), showing a fixed white light that can be seen for 18 miles (on range only). It was designated a New York City Landmark in 1968 and remains a valuable aid to navigation for all ships entering the Ambrose Channel.
There are two lighthouses near Newport with the word "Yakina" in the name. Once is the Yakina Head Lighthouse, which is the tallest in Oregon. It's found in the Yakina Head Outstanding Natural Area. The other, which I did not see, is called the Yakina Bay Lighthouse.
Yesterday I headed to New Brighton with a mate big wave hunting. unfortunately this was the last image I captured before my tripod fell smashing my Nikon 55-200 F4.5-5.6 Lens. Still had a great time out tho.
This beautiful lighthouse sits on the point at Fort Wordan in Port Townsend. Without realizing it...this is the lighthouse that I made into gingerbread this year...
You can see the photo in my photostream of the finished gingerbread project.....
On New Years day the sky was blue, it was crisp and cold but a perfect day for exploring. I have been here many times...but it wasn't until I stood right here, in this spot...that it occured to me....WOW...THIS IS THE LIGHTHOUSE I CREATED IN GINGERBREAD THIS YEAR !!!!
The old Cape Disappointment lighthouse on what was once part of Fort Canby, and is now the Cape Disappointment State Park in Washington.
Macquarie Lighthouse in Sydney, Australia.
This second version of the same lighthouse dates from 1883.
There's an odd detail to the posted rules at this park, which is managed by the BLM (Bureau of Land Management). Dogs are allowed everywhere except the area around the lighthouse as shown here. Dogs are allowed down on the beach as long as they're on-leash, and there are signs warning people and their dogs not to harrass the seal pups that nest there.
So apparently this lighthouse is in more danger of damage from dogs than seal pups are. Funny, it looks so sturdy.
Sunrise, Sylt, September 2016
Chamonix 045N-2, DaYi 6x17 back, Provia 100F, 75mm 5,6 Grandagon N, Tetenal E6 development, drumscanned
Marking the southernmost point on the Icelandic mainland, the Dyrhólaey Lighthouse (Icelandic: Dyrhólaeyjarviti) 13 metres (43 feet) high. In a country where fishing disasters are memorialised all over the place, what this light, the first sign of their native land flashing white every ten seconds into the grey North Atlantic, must have meant to crews returning home.
The first lighthouse on the site was a skeletal steel tower prefabricated in Sweden, erected in 1910. The present lighthouse was built in 1927.
In the distance, the Reynisdrangar sea stacks at the end of the famous black sand Reynisfjara beach are visible - although in this shot, the beach itself is not.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
Pendlebury Lighthouse, Saint Andrews-by-the-sea, New Brunswick. I have many photos of this during the day, but this is the first at dusk, and I like the lighting.
Constructed in 1833, St. Andrews Lighthouse is the oldest remaining mainland lighthouse in New Brunswick and is commonly referred to as Pendlebury Lighthouse, the name of the family that tended the light for almost 100 years (from the 1840s to the 1930s).
The Nash Point lighthouses were designed by James Walker (Engineer in Chief of Trinity House) and were completed in 1832.
The two lighthouses at Nash Point were built as a direct result of ship losses on the Nash Sands and more so to avoid tragedies similar to the one in 1831 when the paddle steamer Frolic was lost with all onboard.
Two massive stone circular lighthouses were constructed, 1000ft (300m) apart. The western lighthouse is the lower one of the two and has always been painted white.
The eastern lighthouse used to be painted black and white (today this is all white) and displays a light, group flashing (2) white and red every 10 seconds, which can be seen 21 miles away.
Both lighthouses originally had fixed white lights which, if kept in line, would lead the vessel safely to the south of the Nash Sands.
The Frolic Disaster - Nash Point
In March 1831 the Frolic with Captain Edward Jenkins in command was returning to Bristol from Haverfordwest. She was making her way round Nash Point when she struck hard into a sandbank. There were no survivors.
The exact number of people onboard were thought to be about 55.
The public outcry which followed the disaster prompted the planning and building of Nash Point lighthouses.
"Sunrise at Race Point Lighthouse"
Provincetown, MA
Race Point Light is a historic lighthouse on Cape Cod, in Provincetown, Massachusetts. It was first established in 1816, the third light on Cape Cod (after Highland Light (1797) and Chatham Light (1808)). The original light was a 25 feet (7.6 m) rubblestone tower that featured one of the earliest rotating beacons, which distinguished it from others on Cape Cod. In 1858 the light got a fourth order Fresnel lens and, in 1874, a second keeper's quarters. In 1875, after significant deterioration of the original tower, it was replaced with an iron tower lined with brick. The original keeper's house was rebuilt as part of the project. The station was electrified in 1957. The larger keeper's house was removed in 1960 and the other was updated.
The station has been restored by the Cape Cod Chapter of the American Lighthouse Foundation, and both the keeper's house and the whistle house are available for vacation rental.
Race Point Light was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Race Point Light Station on June 15, 1987, reference number 87001482.