Newport, Oregon Sep 23, 2013 Getting a tour of the tower. Pics will be from the top. Woohoo...I just woohoo'ed a lighthouse. That's right. From inside the lens. So cool
Newport, Oregon Sep 23, 2013 Yaquina (Ya-kwin-a) Head light built in 1870. Another First order Fresnel Lens. This was built only three years after Yaquina Bay which was used exclusively as a port beacon after Yaquina Head was built.
Newport, Oregon Sep 23, 2013 Yaquina Bay light was a house built around a light. Pretty easy gig for a keeper and his family. No crawling through 187 mph winds.
Newport, Oregon Sep 23, 2013 What your seeing is what happens when people don't have tv. Thank God for tv. Apparently it was so boring in lighthouses that when you had nothing better to do, you'd go pull a wad of hair out of your brush and weave it into "Art." Game of Thrones don't fail me now.