Wacky Weather at Point Arena Lighthouse - California

The weather on the Northern Coast of California is pretty eccentric. It could be a wild storm, balmy sunny day or a combination of both with some of that famous fog thrown in the mix as well. If you have never experienced a storm on the Pacific Coast, you are missing one of life�s great experiences. Imagine towering Redwoods and Fir trees bending in the wind, the look and sound of huge waves pounding the coasts and then ...
a rainbow.
Not just the weather is a real challenge for Point Arena Lighthouse but also its location. In April of 1906, the devastating Great Quake struck Point Arena's Lighthouse tower. The earthquake occurred along the San Andreas Fault, which parallels the coastline 3.5 miles from Point Arena. Shock waves raced across the landscape to the Light Station, damaging the lighthouse and keepers quarters beyond repair. The new current tower was a new concept in lighthouse construction. It was the first to use iron reinforcement rods in concrete. It began operation in September of 1908.
At 115 feet, Point Arena Light is the tallest in California. The smokestack-like silhouette (single diameter bottom to top) makes it unique. Climb the 145-step ascent of the spiral staircase to the tower top. You will be rewarded with unbroken panoramic views of California's Pacific coastline and its bucolic countryside.

Wacky Weather at Point Arena Lighthouse - California


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Point Cabrillo Light Station - Mendocino, CA

The Point Cabrillo Lighthouse in northern California cast its light over the craggy cliffs of the Mendocino coast for the first time in June 1909, and the still-working lighthouse has been carefully restored as part of the Point Cabrillo Light Station.
Now a state historic site, the light station welcomes day visitors. Tour the restored lighthouse, the Lightkeeper's Home and Museum, and visit the native Pomo Indians exhibit at the Farmhouse Visitor Center.
And after the day trippers leave, you have 300 acres of nature preserve all to yourself. Watch the boats and passing whales and dolphins, dazzling sunsets and then a starry sky with no city lights to interfere.

Point Cabrillo Light Station - Mendocino, CA


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Tides of Battery Point Lighthouse - Northern CA

In May of 1855, Congress appropriated $15,000 for the construction of a lighthouse on an islet, which is connected to Battery Point (near Crescent City, northern California, United States) by an isthmus at low tide. It was one of the first lighthouses on the California coast.
With its exposed location atop a rocky mound, the lighthouse was often battered by storms. In 1964, it survived a tsunami caused by the strongest earthquake ever recorded in the northern hemisphere with a moment magnitude of 9.2. A series of waves generated by the earthquake raced south at a speed of nearly 600 m.p.h. and reached Crescent City around midnight with crests of up to twenty feet. Although Battery Point lighthouse survived the ordeal intact, the following year the modern beacon that replaced the Fresnel lens in the tower was switched off.
Today Battery Point Lighthouse operates as a private aid to navigation, and as a Museum. It is a very interesting and lovely area to visit; but be sure to walk across the isthmus at low tide, which is when it is very foggy, or you won't be able to get to or from the Island.

Tides of Battery Point Lighthouse - Northern CA


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Yaquina Head Lighthouse - Newport, OR

Newport, Oregon which sits at the mouth of the Yaquina River, has two lighthouses. Yaquina Head Lighthouse is on the north side of the opening for Newport Bay and Yaquina Bay Lighthouse is on the south side.
Yaquina Head is a prominant headland projecting a little more than a kilometer into the Pacific. The full name of this beautiful place is 'Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area', the hightlight, of course, being the Yaquina Head Lighthouse, also known as Cape Foulweather Lighthouse. It took approximately one year, and over 370,000 bricks from San Francisco, to construct Yaquina Head Light, Oregons tallest lighthouse, which stands at an impressive 93 feet, with 110 steps for the determined visitor to conquer.
The lighthouse emits its own unique lighting pattern, 2 seconds on, 2 seconds off, 2 seconds on, 14 seconds off, 24 hours a day.
In 2002 Yaquina Head Light was used as the setting for the "Moesko Island Lighthouse" in the scary film 'The Ring'. It also appeared in 'Dead Man's Curve' (1998), 'Hysterical' (1983) and Nancy Drew: 'Pirates Cove' (1977).

Yaquina Head Lighthouse - Newport, OR


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Yaquina Lighthouses - Yaquina Head Lighthouse Western Oregon

The Yaquina Head Lighthouse, also known as the Cape Foulweather Lighthouse, is a lighthouse near Newport on the Oregon Coast of the United States near the mouth of the Yaquina River at Yaquina Head.
Yaquina Head Light stands 162 feet above sea level; its 93-foot-high tower is the tallest on the Oregon coast. It is the only lighthouse in the state in which the living quarters are housed in the same building as the light. Only a few of this type were built on the entire Pacific Coast. And it is the only Oregon Lighthouse with a marble floor. It still uses its original 1868 French-made Fixed Fresnel lens; visible 19 miles (31 km) out to sea.
The Yaquina Head Lighthouse is beautiful, and the views from the top are spectacular. But don't stop with the lighthouse. On the way to or from the light, take one of the trails down to the water, where you will find a unique cobble beach, and fascinating tidepools with colorful starfish and anemones, crabs and mussels, seals sunning themselves on rocks just a stone's throw from where you are. And if you are lucky, you might even spot a whale or massive golden eagles with binoculars.

Yaquina Lighthouses - Yaquina Head Lighthouse Western Oregon


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