Pigeon Point Light Station

Posted by Don Smith (California, United States) on 25 November 2008 in Landscape & Rural.

Pigeon Point Light Station, one of the tallest lighthouses in the United States, recently celebrated its annual November lighting by turning off its present-day 24-inch aerobeacon mounted on the front of the tower and illuminating the original Fresnel lens to comemorate its 135th anniversary. The lighthouse, located 25 miles north of Santa Cruz, California, first began guiding ships out in the Pacific in 1872 near this date. The lens (which was retired by the Coast Guard in 1972) was lit by five kerosene lamps and projected 28 beams of light. My hopes were for some fog to help defract the lightbeams which stayed stationary for the first 5-minutes of the lighting; instead, my friend Mike Hall and I were greeted with a warm 80-degree day and a clear night. To my pleasant surprise, my Canon 1DsMKIII camera was able to capture not only the beams, but also the stars in the night sky and the soft mist rising off the ocean which was at low tide. To see more of my images, please visit my website at http:www.donsmithphotography.com.

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