Travel Photography > Photos tagged as lighthouses
Taken from the San Fransisco side of the "Golden Gate"
Palau karaka, Banda Islands, Maluku
Exmouth Cape
This is one of three small lighthouses built to mark the Salem harbor. It was by the Winter Island city park where I stayed while visiting Boston.
Lighthouse Spelonk
This is just off Cape Flattery, WA, the farthest NW point in the continental US.
This was probably too far away to get a good shot, but I tried. It was way across the Straight of San Juan de Fuca on Vancouver Island. I was at Cape Flattery.
I took this shot from the viewing platform at Cape Flattery, some distance away from the Island where the lighthouse stands.
This was built between 1888-1891 and is 94 feet tall. The original first order Fresnel lens is now in the Westport Maritime Museum.
At 107 feet tall, this is the tallest lighthouse in Washington State and the third tallest on the west coast.
The lighthouse is in Washington, the photo was taken in Fort Stevens, on the Oregon side of the Columbia River.
This is the First Order Fresnel Lens at Cape Meares. It is unusual in that it's an eight sided lens with the alternate sides red, to make an alternating red & white pattern.
Finally up close to a west coast lighthouse. It is up on a bluff, so the tower is only tall enough to house the mechanism.
This was closed to the public when we drove by, but was clearly visible from Sea Lion Cave.
This is at Battery Point in Crescent City. It was built in 1856 and has a Fourth Order Fresnel Lens.
We didn't go visit this one, but could easily see it from the beach.
This houses a First Order Fresnel Lens with 1, 032 sections of hand cut crystal weighs 6,000 pounds.
This was in service from 1870 to 1975. This point is considered the most foggy and windy in the United States.
They only give tours of this one day a week, which wasn't the day we drove through.
The light is actually on the far side of this rock, not visible from here.
This was built in 1858 and originally located in Matagorda Bay.
While small, this survived the hurricane. It was built in 1848 of cast iron.
This was completed in 1895 to replace an earlier LH on Dog Island that was destroyed in a hurricane. It is no longer in service. The tower stands 103' tall, the original fourth order Fresnel lens is on display in New Orleans at the USCG HQ.