Photos of Point Reyes Lighthouse

California-06535 - Goodbye to Point Reyes Lighthouse by archer10 (Dennis)

PLEASE, NO invitations or self promotions, THEY WILL BE DELETED. My photos are FREE to use, just give me credit and it would be nice if you let me know, thanks. Point Reyes is, by official records, the windiest and foggiest on the Pacific Coast. The Point Reyes Lighthouse is in the Gulf of the Farallones on Point Reyes in Point Reyes National Seashore, located in Marin County. There are 308 steps down to the lighthouse itself, remember once there you have to walk back up. A lighthouse was assigned to Point Reyes in 1855, but construction was delayed for fifteen years because of a dispute over a fair price for the land. The lighthouse is a sixteen sided, 11 m (37 ft) tower, and a twin of Cape Mendocino Lighthouse. The first-order Fresnel lens was first lit on December 1, 1870. Electricity came to the lighthouse in 1938, and concrete steps were built into the cliff in 1939. The station was automated in 1975. The lighthouse was used as a location for the 1980 John Carpenter film The Fog. It is also the subject of a poem by Weldon Kees, "The Exposed Reef." Kees, together with filmmaker and photographer William Heick, later made a documentary film about the lighthouse and its environs in 1954-55.
Point Reyes Lighthouse is a tourist attraction, one of the Faros in Seahaven, United States. It is located: 176 km from San Francisco, 370 km from San Jose, 446 km from Sacramento. Read further
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