When I went back and searched my blog for lighthouses, I found it hard to believe I hadn't featured the Pigeon Point lighthouse in California, south of the Bay area. I've been near there, but never drove that section of California 1.
It has it's own Web site: Pigeon Point Light Station State Historic Park
And from this Web site, we learn:
- It's 115 feet high;
- it came into service in 1872;
- it used to have a 16-foot tall, 2,000 pound Fresnel lens; and
- it's still in service, but with a new light.
And it's really, really picturesque, and thus there are hundreds of pictures of it available. It's hard to pick just a few. But I tried. The lens is on display in the Fog Signal building by the lighthouse.
I'm sure there are videos of it too, but I was lazy this week.
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| The lens |
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