This week's lighthouse is the Yaquina Head Lighthouse in Oregon. There's are interesting stories about it at Lighthouse Friends:
Yaquina Head Lighthouse
It wasn't easy to get to the site, and it wasn't easy to build, and parts of the lantern room were lost at sea. So it took a year between finishing the keeper's house and lighting the light in the lantern room (it was a first-order Fresnel lens). The light was lit in September 1873.
It's tall: 93 feet.
It's on a bluff, so it's 162 feet above the ocean.
It faces rough seas and high winds, so it has been damaged more than once. Its location throws off magnetic compasses (it really does).
It's reputedly haunted by more than one ghost (which somewhat fits the theme of this lighthouse, the last lighthouse, and hopefully a couple more coming up). Not reputedly, but really, the area is designated an Outstanding Natural Area by the Bureau of Land Management, with numerous tide pools nearby (I have one picture showing them).
Restoration of the tower was completed in 2006.
Where is Yaquina Head? (click that to find out, a map showing it in relation to Portland)
And now the pictures:
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| by Luis Henrique Boucault |
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