Episode 33 - Point Arena Lighthouse

100:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000Hi everyone, I'm Emily.200:00:02,000 --> 00:00:03,000And I'm Vince.300:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,000And this is the Lighthouse Lowdown.400:00:06,000 --> 00:00:14,000It's every time.500:00:14,000 --> 00:00:18,000Vince is in charge of our button mashing today.600:00:18,000 --> 00:00:22,000Oh, I already messed it up.700:00:22,000 --> 00:00:23,000Did you mark them?800:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,000No, I meant to do the boo boo boo.900:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,000Oh, we have that?1000:00:27,000 --> 00:00:31,000Alright, never mind.1100:00:31,000 --> 00:00:32,000We don't have the sound.1200:00:32,000 --> 00:00:38,000We need to add that one, because that's what I think of a lot whenever I'm trying to find certain sounds to play.1300:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,000Kind of a goofy sound.1400:00:40,000 --> 00:00:45,000Okay, so I promised an American lighthouse and we're not doing that.1500:00:45,000 --> 00:00:46,000Just kidding.1600:00:46,000 --> 00:00:50,000No.1700:00:50,000 --> 00:00:51,000No.1800:00:51,000 --> 00:00:52,000We talked about it so much.1900:00:52,000 --> 00:00:57,000No, we are doing an American lighthouse and this one comes from our listener, Ben.2000:00:57,000 --> 00:01:07,000So, Ben, thank you for sending us an email with this lighthouse and also for being the first person to be brave enough to send us a voicemail over our new website.2100:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,000Shout out to Ben.2200:01:09,000 --> 00:01:10,000Thank you for doing that.2300:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,000On the website, what is...2400:01:12,000 --> 00:01:16,000Okay, so I looked at our website because I hadn't looked at it since we changed it.2500:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,000It's really good.2600:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,000There's the review page, maybe smile.2700:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,000But what is the voicemail access?2800:01:22,000 --> 00:01:23,000Because I did not see that.2900:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,000Someone wants to leave a voicemail.3000:01:25,000 --> 00:01:26,000Let me look.3100:01:26,000 --> 00:01:27,000Like Ben did.3200:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,000You must have figured it out and I did not.3300:01:30,000 --> 00:01:34,000You know what's funny is that I haven't looked yet to figure it out, but Ben did.3400:01:34,000 --> 00:01:39,000Shout out again to Ben, teaching us how to use our own website.3500:01:39,000 --> 00:01:40,000I didn't realize that was...3600:01:40,000 --> 00:01:41,000Contact.3700:01:41,000 --> 00:01:42,000It's not on there.3800:01:42,000 --> 00:01:43,000Yeah, the videos.3900:01:43,000 --> 00:01:44,000Leave a voicemail.4000:01:44,000 --> 00:01:45,000I bet it's contact.4100:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,000Okay, so here's that.4200:01:47,000 --> 00:01:48,000Oh.4300:01:48,000 --> 00:01:49,000Oh, there you go.4400:01:49,000 --> 00:01:50,000Okay, leave a voicemail.4500:01:50,000 --> 00:01:51,000Okay, so you can just record.4600:01:51,000 --> 00:01:52,000That's awesome.4700:01:52,000 --> 00:01:53,000That's awesome.4800:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,000Yeah, it just sends me an email and I can listen to it.4900:01:55,000 --> 00:01:56,000We're going to get spam now.5000:01:56,000 --> 00:01:57,000It's going to be great.5100:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,000I've already gotten a couple of spam emails.5200:01:59,000 --> 00:02:00,000All right.5300:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,000So avoid doing that, friends.5400:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,000Lighthouse friends.5500:02:06,000 --> 00:02:11,000Ben told us a very sweet story about how our podcast has impacted his life.5600:02:11,000 --> 00:02:15,000And I won't go into details about it because I didn't get permission to share the story,5700:02:15,000 --> 00:02:16,000so I won't.5800:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,000But he did give us permission to share a story about the lighthouse that we're doing today.5900:02:20,000 --> 00:02:22,000So I'll tag that on at the end of this episode.6000:02:22,000 --> 00:02:23,000Very cool.6100:02:23,000 --> 00:02:24,000Yeah.6200:02:24,000 --> 00:02:25,000So our history of Bowie is...6300:02:25,000 --> 00:02:26,000Hang on.6400:02:26,000 --> 00:02:35,000Vince and I are sharing screen again for our YouTube and it's more complicated than you6500:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,000would want it to be.6600:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,000What am I doing?6700:02:39,000 --> 00:02:44,000We are doing the anatomy of a lighthouse for our history of Bowie today.6800:02:44,000 --> 00:02:53,000I briefly mentioned some things on like our first and second episode, but didn't really6900:02:53,000 --> 00:02:54,000go into detail about each one.7000:02:54,000 --> 00:03:00,000So I'm just going to go from top to bottom of a lighthouse and kind of describe the basic7100:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,000parts.7200:03:01,000 --> 00:03:07,000And of course, everything varies greatly between lighthouses because there's thousands of them.7300:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,000I love this diagram already.7400:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,000Yeah, I messed it up.7500:03:12,000 --> 00:03:18,000You can see there is like this white line that goes around the right side of it.7600:03:18,000 --> 00:03:24,000I was trying to be fancy and then I accidentally cut out the lighthouse from the page and then7700:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,000move it over a little bit and I didn't know how to undo it.7800:03:27,000 --> 00:03:28,000Oh, well.7900:03:28,000 --> 00:03:29,000Looks cool.8000:03:29,000 --> 00:03:30,000Yeah, I just leave it on there.8100:03:30,000 --> 00:03:36,000So we're going to use Destruction Island Lighthouse as the example where that...8200:03:36,000 --> 00:03:43,000If you go to our YouTube where I have a diagram of this lighthouse marked up so you can see8300:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,000what parts we're referring to.8400:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,000But that was just because they had a cool blueprint style cross section of the lighthouse.8500:03:49,000 --> 00:03:50,000Schematics.8600:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,000I love schematics.8700:03:51,000 --> 00:03:52,000Love them.8800:03:52,000 --> 00:04:02,000So starting from the top, every lighthouse tower has a lightning rod because they're8900:04:02,000 --> 00:04:07,000usually pretty tall and there's a lot of metal on a lighthouse that you wouldn't want to9000:04:07,000 --> 00:04:08,000get hit by lightning.9100:04:08,000 --> 00:04:13,000So they usually have a lightning rod to direct any lightning strikes directly to the ground9200:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,000instead of to the lighthouse.9300:04:15,000 --> 00:04:21,000And then below that we have a ventilator or a vent ball or a ball vent, which is just9400:04:21,000 --> 00:04:27,000a metal ball that allows airflow to come out of the lantern room because it gets really9500:04:27,000 --> 00:04:28,000hot in there.9600:04:28,000 --> 00:04:29,000I never thought about that.9700:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,000With the lantern, the light source is probably really hot.9800:04:31,000 --> 00:04:32,000Yeah.9900:04:32,000 --> 00:04:36,000They don't have AC in a lighthouse, so it gets pretty toasty in there.10000:04:36,000 --> 00:04:40,000So they have a ventilator in there for that.10100:04:40,000 --> 00:04:46,000Below that is the dome roof or a cupola, which is just the roof of the lighthouse.10200:04:46,000 --> 00:04:47,000I feel like we talked about that before.10300:04:47,000 --> 00:04:48,000I think we did mention it.10400:04:48,000 --> 00:04:49,000The cupola.10500:04:49,000 --> 00:04:50,000The cupola.10600:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,000Someone's going to be like, it's a cupola.10700:04:53,000 --> 00:04:54,000Yeah.10800:04:54,000 --> 00:04:55,000Excuse you.10900:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,000It's not a sandwich meat.11000:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,000This is the baloney.11100:05:00,000 --> 00:05:04,000The lantern room is below that, arguably the most important part of a lighthouse.11200:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,000It houses the beacon.11300:05:06,000 --> 00:05:10,000If you have any clockwork mechanism, most of it is going to be in the lantern room.11400:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,000And I also put a line on there to show you the focal plane.11500:05:13,000 --> 00:05:20,000And that's just the distance between the bullseye of the lens or the very center of the light11600:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,000beam down to the water level.11700:05:22,000 --> 00:05:28,000So it's not to the ground or to like, it's like some people say the focal plane is like11800:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,000the height of the lighthouse or whatever.11900:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,000It's like focal plane is from the center of the beam to the water level.12000:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,000I did not know focal plane was a distance.12100:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,000Like it's an optics thing.12200:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,000I thought it was a line.12300:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,000The focal plane, yeah, is a line.12400:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,000But the focal plane height is.12500:05:43,000 --> 00:05:44,000Oh, okay.12600:05:44,000 --> 00:05:45,000Yeah.12700:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,000So you're right.12800:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,000Didn't explain that very well.12900:05:48,000 --> 00:05:49,000I thought you did good.13000:05:49,000 --> 00:05:51,000No, it's a good that we asked.13100:05:51,000 --> 00:05:57,000Below that is the lantern gallery or also called widow's walk or parapet, which is just13200:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,000a balcony that goes around the lantern room.13300:05:59,000 --> 00:06:05,000And that's so that the keeper can clean all the panes outside of the lighthouse room and13400:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,000do any maintenance or whatever.13500:06:07,000 --> 00:06:12,000Below that is a watch room and sometimes doubles as a service room or there's a service room13600:06:12,000 --> 00:06:13,000below that.13700:06:13,000 --> 00:06:16,000It just it varies between every lighthouse.13800:06:16,000 --> 00:06:21,000But the watch room is where they can watch storms without having to go up into the lantern13900:06:21,000 --> 00:06:26,000room because the lantern room doesn't have any protection from storms like water.14000:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,000You know, you can't see through a window when it's covered in water.14100:06:29,000 --> 00:06:30,000There's no overhang or anything.14200:06:30,000 --> 00:06:31,000Yeah.14300:06:31,000 --> 00:06:35,000If you're in the watch room, you have a little bit more protection from water so you can14400:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,000actually see what's going on outside of the lighthouse.14500:06:37,000 --> 00:06:41,000But you're also close enough to the top of the lighthouse where you can actually accurately14600:06:41,000 --> 00:06:45,000glean what the conditions are for your lens and everything.14700:06:45,000 --> 00:06:46,000Yeah.14800:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,000And that also has a balcony.14900:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,000It's called the main gallery or a catwalk, sometimes called a catwalk.15000:06:52,000 --> 00:06:57,000There's other definitions of catwalk to do with lighthouses, but it's mostly like.15100:06:57,000 --> 00:06:58,000Yeah.15200:06:58,000 --> 00:06:59,000OK.15300:06:59,000 --> 00:07:04,000So the main gallery or catwalk is below the lantern gallery.15400:07:04,000 --> 00:07:06,000So is there always?15500:07:06,000 --> 00:07:07,000It's probably a tough question.15600:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,000Always is a strong word.15700:07:09,000 --> 00:07:13,000Is there usually a lantern gallery and the main gallery separately?15800:07:13,000 --> 00:07:14,000There is usually.15900:07:14,000 --> 00:07:15,000Yeah.16000:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,000There's sometimes where there's not.16100:07:16,000 --> 00:07:17,000The lighthouse today has one.16200:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,000So if that varies as well.16300:07:20,000 --> 00:07:24,000But mostly there's a main gallery and a lantern gallery.16400:07:24,000 --> 00:07:25,000Right.16500:07:25,000 --> 00:07:26,000OK.16600:07:26,000 --> 00:07:27,000Yeah.16700:07:27,000 --> 00:07:31,000So then the watch room is also where keepers sometimes keep their logs.16800:07:31,000 --> 00:07:35,000So instead of having to go all the way back down the lighthouse to, you know, if they're16900:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,000talking about storm conditions or something that's going on with the lens or like this17000:07:38,000 --> 00:07:41,000is what I'm doing right now, then they just go down to the watch room.17100:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,000Yeah.17200:07:42,000 --> 00:07:47,000Below that is the main tower of the lighthouse is just called the tower.17300:07:47,000 --> 00:07:53,000And it varies so greatly that you can't really make any notes on it because like you could17400:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,000have like in this example has a spiral staircase.17500:07:56,000 --> 00:08:01,000You could also have a ladder or you could be like you could have your counterweight17600:08:01,000 --> 00:08:08,000shaft or your counterweight in the middle of the lighthouse or in some cases like the17700:08:08,000 --> 00:08:13,000Eddystone lighthouse, you have the keepers living in rooms that make up the tower of17800:08:13,000 --> 00:08:14,000the lighthouse.17900:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,000So it just.18000:08:16,000 --> 00:08:23,000The tower is actually just very so much that you can count on there being windows and that's18100:08:23,000 --> 00:08:24,000about it.18200:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,000Windows and some stairs.18300:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,000Yeah.18400:08:27,000 --> 00:08:28,000Somewhere.18500:08:28,000 --> 00:08:29,000See what else?18600:08:29,000 --> 00:08:30,000What else?18700:08:30,000 --> 00:08:31,000We're down to lintel.18800:08:31,000 --> 00:08:37,000So the lintel is a beam above the doorway or it can be above a window or something.18900:08:37,000 --> 00:08:38,000It's just like a support beam.19000:08:38,000 --> 00:08:39,000Yeah.19100:08:39,000 --> 00:08:44,000And often that's where they have engraved the name of the lighthouse, the year that19200:08:44,000 --> 00:08:47,000it was established and the engineer's name.19300:08:47,000 --> 00:08:50,000And so that's just something I noted on there because it shows up in today's episode as19400:08:50,000 --> 00:08:51,000well.19500:08:51,000 --> 00:08:55,000And then we also often see a counterweight well.19600:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,000This is something I learned today when I was researching it.19700:08:58,000 --> 00:09:06,000And obviously the counterweight that runs the clockwork mechanism that comes down, it's19800:09:06,000 --> 00:09:08,000just dangling there by a chain.19900:09:08,000 --> 00:09:13,000And so if it were to break and fall all the way from the top of the lighthouse, you'd20000:09:13,000 --> 00:09:18,000have really bad damage to the foundation of your lighthouse, which is horrible news.20100:09:18,000 --> 00:09:26,000And so very smartly, they have put in a well that catches a weight if it were to break20200:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,000and fall instead of doing damage to the foundation.20300:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,000It lands on this.20400:09:31,000 --> 00:09:36,000I didn't have time to look up what it's made of or what the shape is or anything, but20500:09:36,000 --> 00:09:41,000basically it's just a countermeasure to this weight.20600:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,000Is there any...20700:09:43,000 --> 00:09:51,000So the weight under normal operation, the weight is on a suspended chain and it falls20800:09:51,000 --> 00:09:55,000slowly downwards and that movement...20900:09:55,000 --> 00:09:56,000Rotates.21000:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,000Rotates the clockwork at a certain pace, which...21100:09:59,000 --> 00:10:00,000All right.21200:10:00,000 --> 00:10:05,000So when the weight gets to the bottom, the counterweight, we'll say, does it go into21300:10:05,000 --> 00:10:08,000the well as far as like it's a clearance, like it needs to go that far?21400:10:08,000 --> 00:10:09,000I think I've seen...21500:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,000Or is it just for falling if it were to say that?21600:10:11,000 --> 00:10:12,000It's not always.21700:10:12,000 --> 00:10:17,000It's not like the length of the lighthouse is the length that it has to go before it's21800:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,000rewound up to the lighthouse again.21900:10:19,000 --> 00:10:25,000It's just sometimes it can be that length and it gets close but never touches the well.22000:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,000Because then it would stop.22100:10:27,000 --> 00:10:28,000Yeah.22200:10:28,000 --> 00:10:34,000Like today's lighthouse, I think, only goes 60 feet before it has to be rewound.22300:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,000I didn't make a note of what the distance was, but I remember reading something like22400:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,000that, like, oh, it wasn't the full length of the lighthouse.22500:10:38,000 --> 00:10:39,000Yeah.22600:10:39,000 --> 00:10:42,000Well, there was one lighthouse, I want to say...22700:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,000I want to say it was Alcatraz.22800:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,000It was one of those lighthouses that had...22900:10:47,000 --> 00:10:52,000They had dug a well in the island for the weight to be...23000:10:52,000 --> 00:10:53,000Cradled?23100:10:53,000 --> 00:10:57,000Cradled in because the lighthouse lantern room was at the level of the island.23200:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,000It was at earth level, ground level.23300:10:59,000 --> 00:11:00,000Oh.23400:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,000And then when they put...23500:11:02,000 --> 00:11:06,000They rebuilt the lighthouse for some reason and they put it on a pier over the water because23600:11:06,000 --> 00:11:11,000that way the weight could go down towards water level rather than digging in the earth.23700:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,000Oh, interesting.23800:11:13,000 --> 00:11:18,000So they still had room for the weight to fall under normal operation or failure.23900:11:18,000 --> 00:11:19,000That's interesting.24000:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,000I don't think you mentioned that in the episode.24100:11:21,000 --> 00:11:22,000I can't remember.24200:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,000I don't know if it was Alcatraz.24300:11:24,000 --> 00:11:28,000I was going to say it was East Brother, but that's not right because that was not my episode24400:11:28,000 --> 00:11:32,000and it wasn't the very tall island, East Brother.24500:11:32,000 --> 00:11:33,000No.24600:11:33,000 --> 00:11:34,000Okay.24700:11:34,000 --> 00:11:35,000Well, thanks.24800:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,000The last note on the right, what does that say?24900:11:37,000 --> 00:11:41,000Sorry, my handwriting is awful so everyone can see it on the YouTube.25000:11:41,000 --> 00:11:48,000Also, the pen, the studio pen I was using in Procreate is not made for writing.25100:11:48,000 --> 00:11:52,000It wants to smooth out any stroke you make.25200:11:52,000 --> 00:11:56,000So it became very swoopy and flat and not very good.25300:11:56,000 --> 00:12:00,000Anyway, the bottom is concrete foundation and sometimes...25400:12:00,000 --> 00:12:03,000So the bottom of the lighthouse, there's all kinds of stuff you could do at the bottom25500:12:03,000 --> 00:12:08,000of a lighthouse, but once again, the lighthouse today, there's a reason I did this for the25600:12:08,000 --> 00:12:11,000history of Buoyas because there's so many mentions of little things.25700:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,000I'm like, I should probably do anatomy of a lighthouse.25800:12:13,000 --> 00:12:19,000But the bottom can have a buttress, which is like external support for the lighthouse.25900:12:19,000 --> 00:12:25,000So it's like a bulbous bottom, sometimes shaped like a donut or it's tapered or something.26000:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,000You can also have a...26100:12:27,000 --> 00:12:32,000The bottom of the lighthouse can be on a caisson or like a crib like we talked about on26200:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,000island lighthouses, they have cribs.26300:12:34,000 --> 00:12:40,000It can also be a workspace, like a room that is just the bottom of the lighthouse.26400:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,000The entryway.26500:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,000Berries, berries, berries.26600:12:44,000 --> 00:12:46,000What was the...26700:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,000I'm thinking of Hatteras, right?26800:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,000Oh, yeah.26900:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,000The base of it we saw was the grid.27000:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,000Yeah, fancy.27100:12:54,000 --> 00:12:55,000That was really cool.27200:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,000It took a lot of concrete.27300:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,000Well, that was Hatteras, for those who don't know, was moved.27400:13:00,000 --> 00:13:05,000It was one of the lighthouses that was moved and there's a long recorded history we've talked about on that too.27500:13:05,000 --> 00:13:11,000I feel like we should do another episode on that because we only did a 15 minute conversation on it because we were there.27600:13:11,000 --> 00:13:18,000Yeah, the Outer Banks, for those who haven't listened, has some awesome lighthouses, including Hatteras.27700:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,000Is it Hatteras Island?27800:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,000Hatteras Island light?27900:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,000Hatteras Point?28000:13:24,000 --> 00:13:26,000I don't actually know.28100:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,000I thought it was just Hatteras.28200:13:28,000 --> 00:13:32,000It's the tallest in the US and you would probably recognize it if you know any lighthouses.28300:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,000Cape Hatteras. Oh my gosh.28400:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,000We are horrible.28500:13:36,000 --> 00:13:38,000Yeah, we should know. We were there.28600:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,000We were there.28700:13:40,000 --> 00:13:42,000Anyway.28800:13:42,000 --> 00:13:46,000That is parts of Lighthouse, our lighthouse anatomy.28900:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,000Good history, Booyah. Look at you.29000:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,000Thank you.29100:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,000Destruction Island lighthouse.29200:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,000Sounds so cool.29300:13:54,000 --> 00:13:56,000I know, we should really look at it.29400:13:56,000 --> 00:14:00,000It's a clockwork history of Booyah.29500:14:00,000 --> 00:14:04,000So I can explain exactly what happens there.29600:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,000I shouldn't. That'll be next.29700:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,000Mark my words, everyone.29800:14:08,000 --> 00:14:14,000Okay, so our lighthouse today, we're heading over to Northern California.29900:14:14,000 --> 00:14:18,000So now we've done a couple of California lighthouses.30000:14:18,000 --> 00:14:24,000This lighthouse is unique in that it is tall and thin.30100:14:24,000 --> 00:14:28,000It doesn't have any taper to the walls. So it's just like a cylinder.30200:14:28,000 --> 00:14:30,000A pencil. Yes, a pencil.30300:14:30,000 --> 00:14:38,000And it's 115 feet tall, white with a black lantern room and a white solid balcony around the bottom.30400:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,000So like the main gallery is just...30500:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,000I'll show you a picture.30600:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,000Wow. Oh, cool.30700:14:44,000 --> 00:14:46,000Yeah.30800:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,000Wow, it looks new.30900:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,000It's very clean. They do...31000:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,000They take really good care of it.31100:14:52,000 --> 00:14:57,000Because it's very often visited and a lot of people love this lighthouse.31200:14:57,000 --> 00:14:58,000Great.31300:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,000This is the lighthouse.31400:15:00,000 --> 00:15:04,000I couldn't find if the lantern room right now is still original.31500:15:04,000 --> 00:15:08,000I want to say yes. At least the roof is still original.31600:15:08,000 --> 00:15:12,000Oh, and this is a good picture. You can see that vent ball up here.31700:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,000Yeah. And the lightning rod.31800:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,000And our cupola.31900:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,000Nice.32000:15:18,000 --> 00:15:22,000Yeah, this is a good example of for being able to see all the parts of a lighthouse that I was talking about.32100:15:22,000 --> 00:15:27,000Anyway, right now its flash pattern is one white flash every 15 seconds.32200:15:27,000 --> 00:15:34,000And that was different in history, which is another one of those cool things to go see at the lighthouse.32300:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,000I'll talk about it later.32400:15:36,000 --> 00:15:40,000But in this picture, you can also see the foghorn, the old foghorn building.32500:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,000Nice. It's big.32600:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,000Yeah, I know it's fancy.32700:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,000So what lighthouse is this?32800:15:46,000 --> 00:15:49,000I'm sorry. This is Point Arena Lighthouse.32900:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,000You can see it there.33000:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,000Point Arena Lighthouse.33100:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,000Point Arena. Yeah. Northern California.33200:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,000How far north? Because we talk about San Francisco. Is that considered north?33300:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,000It's north of LA.33400:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,000San Francisco is probably middle of the California.33500:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,000Middle of the California.33600:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,000It's a big state. I'm aware.33700:16:07,000 --> 00:16:12,000I think this is not that far north. It's like kind of just like in the middle of the top half of California.33800:16:12,000 --> 00:16:18,000People do say though, they say Northern California. It's a whole different region.33900:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,000Yeah. It's not just like the very tip-top.34000:16:21,000 --> 00:16:31,000In the 1850s and the 1860s, the redwood lumber shipments started to increase from Northern California to San Francisco.34100:16:31,000 --> 00:16:39,000And so they had to start putting lighthouses along this coastline so that people wouldn't crash with all of their redwood lumber.34200:16:39,000 --> 00:16:47,000So this point, Point Arena, is where the coast changes from like a northwest direction to a north direction.34300:16:47,000 --> 00:16:53,000So the coast turns. And so they needed to mark it directly with a lighthouse.34400:16:53,000 --> 00:16:56,000So they knew where the turning point of the coast is.34500:16:56,000 --> 00:17:03,000So the point itself, I don't know if I got a picture of this. Kind of.34600:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,000Oh, cool. That is not what I expected.34700:17:06,000 --> 00:17:10,000Yeah, it's from the picture. You can't tell that it's that the ground looks like this.34800:17:10,000 --> 00:17:15,000But the point itself is like a very narrow plateau.34900:17:15,000 --> 00:17:19,000The top of this is almost perfectly horizontal, which was good for building.35000:17:19,000 --> 00:17:23,000But then the edges are very vertical. They have cliff edges.35100:17:23,000 --> 00:17:24,000Yeah, very sheer.35200:17:24,000 --> 00:17:32,000So it's like a little plateau. It's about 200 to 300 feet wide and about a thousand feet long, depending on where you measure from.35300:17:32,000 --> 00:17:41,000And the rock at the end was not good for building. So they built about 400 feet back from the tip of the point.35400:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,000I don't know how they discovered that the rock wasn't good.35500:17:44,000 --> 00:17:49,000I think that there was like a lot of cracks or something, you know, just over time.35600:17:49,000 --> 00:17:55,000In this image, you can see the foremost edge is actually falling off.35700:17:55,000 --> 00:17:59,000Oh, yeah. It started to shift down. It still has the topsoil on it.35800:17:59,000 --> 00:18:03,000The side around the foghorn building is pretty skinny.35900:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,000I would guess it's been deteriorating.36000:18:05,000 --> 00:18:06,000I bet so.36100:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,000But yeah, it's not a lot there.36200:18:08,000 --> 00:18:11,000It's not like rocky cliff. It's like sand rock.36300:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,000That fence, if you look at the fence, it seems quite necessary.36400:18:14,000 --> 00:18:15,000Yeah.36500:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,000Stay away from the edges.36600:18:17,000 --> 00:18:23,000Yeah, they actually added that fence line after someone died falling off the rocks. I know it was like a construction worker.36700:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,000He's like, oh, son of a bitch.36800:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,000That sucks.36900:18:27,000 --> 00:18:30,000But there was so much picket fence. Look at all that fence.37000:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,000Had to have been just so much money.37100:18:32,000 --> 00:18:36,000Let's just keep people from going too close to the edge.37200:18:36,000 --> 00:18:42,000Anyway, so something interesting that I actually read up quite a bit on on this lighthouse is that37300:18:42,000 --> 00:18:48,000so this is not the original lighthouse, this like very tall and skinny.37400:18:48,000 --> 00:18:56,000The original was a very classic brick tapered tower light.37500:18:56,000 --> 00:19:04,000And what they did for building this lighthouse originally was that they made the bricks on site.37600:19:04,000 --> 00:19:10,000Because if you think about hauling hundreds of thousands of bricks, it would just be so expensive.37700:19:10,000 --> 00:19:17,000And so what they used to do is that they would set up kilns like a couple of miles away from their building site.37800:19:17,000 --> 00:19:24,000And this was true for construction anywhere like it for anything to make bricks for a construction site.37900:19:24,000 --> 00:19:31,000They would just go a couple of miles away and then they would dig up clay from it was like they would make a brick yard where they would dig up clay.38000:19:31,000 --> 00:19:37,000And then and they would mix it with other chemicals, whatever it is that makes clay good for bricks.38100:19:37,000 --> 00:19:41,000I don't know, like add something to glue. Yeah.38200:19:41,000 --> 00:19:44,000And they would place it into a mold and then pop it back out.38300:19:44,000 --> 00:19:49,000So it's just like a wooden box that you'd stuff clay into and then pop it out.38400:19:49,000 --> 00:19:54,000And then they'd leave the brick to dry for a couple of weeks, just like under the sun.38500:19:54,000 --> 00:20:05,000Spread them out. And then they would pile these dried bricks up into a kiln formation and then light a fire inside and then it would bake the bricks.38600:20:05,000 --> 00:20:10,000That's cool. Yeah. So they never like a kiln was made up of bricks that were being fired.38700:20:10,000 --> 00:20:16,000It wasn't like a thing that you put bricks into and take it out like that may have been true later.38800:20:16,000 --> 00:20:24,000But in like the mid eighteen hundreds, this is kind of what they did for construction was just bake bricks around a fire.38900:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,000Makes sense. That's really cool. Yeah.39000:20:26,000 --> 00:20:33,000So this kiln method was used for five hundred thousand bricks for construction of this lighthouse.39100:20:33,000 --> 00:20:41,000And then they also shipped in one hundred and fourteen thousand higher quality bricks to be the outside of the lighthouse.39200:20:41,000 --> 00:20:55,000So they actually. Yeah, I read about that, too, is that they would just hand like sand the outside of the bricks to be more flat and then they would have a stamp in them for whatever.39300:20:55,000 --> 00:21:10,000That's crazy. Yeah. So that's why a lot of times when you see older buildings, the bricks will have a stamp in them like just it's just the outside that has these fancy stamped like really nice bricks and the inside have just.39400:21:10,000 --> 00:21:15,000Yeah, wobbly bricks. The facade is what you see. Yeah.39500:21:15,000 --> 00:21:23,000They finished building it in eighteen seventy and that was in April and it was first lit May 1st of eighteen seventy.39600:21:23,000 --> 00:21:27,000It was a hundred feet tall and had a first order.39700:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,000Fray now lens.39800:21:30,000 --> 00:21:35,000Right now. Yeah. Sounds wrong for now for now.39900:21:35,000 --> 00:21:38,000Well, that was different than what I was saying.40000:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,000It's not fray.40100:21:40,000 --> 00:21:45,000They also built a large brick, two and a half story keepers dwelling.40200:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,000And that was to house four keepers and their families.40300:21:48,000 --> 00:21:58,000I was like, let me see if I have a I don't think I have a picture, but I'm going to find one actually for keepers right off the bat. Yeah.40400:21:58,000 --> 00:22:02,000One head keeper and three assistants. It's quite a staff.40500:22:02,000 --> 00:22:07,000There we go. Look at that house. That's an amazing house. I know.40600:22:07,000 --> 00:22:11,000They're like, we got extra room in the budget. So it's very this lighthouse.40700:22:11,000 --> 00:22:18,000Very classic, very clean and pretty. This is like visually one of my favorite lighthouses shapes.40800:22:18,000 --> 00:22:23,000And also, yeah, I like the ones that are like integral lighthouses that are just like a lighthouse on top of a house.40900:22:23,000 --> 00:22:27,000I like that. What do you have any idea of what year this is? Eighteen seventy.41000:22:27,000 --> 00:22:30,000Oh, wow. Yeah, that's so that's when it's marked.41100:22:30,000 --> 00:22:35,000So I want to but I feel like nobody took photos that early. I think they did. I think it was rare.41200:22:35,000 --> 00:22:38,000I don't think it was an easy thing to do. Yeah.41300:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,000I think in the bottom of this picture, these are all flowers.41400:22:41,000 --> 00:22:45,000The lighthouse keepers daughters. I'll talk about this later.41500:22:45,000 --> 00:22:51,000They wrote a lot about that. The lighthouse is often surrounded by flowers like yellow and purple flowers.41600:22:51,000 --> 00:22:57,000And that's cool. Yeah. Anyway, beautiful colorized. I know.41700:22:57,000 --> 00:23:03,000We can just go back in time, experience it for ourselves. Oh, no.41800:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,000It's our website, the Lighthouse Lowdown.41900:23:06,000 --> 00:23:10,000Just another reminder, go to the.42000:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,000Just trying to get everything situated.42100:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,000We haven't done sharing screen in a very long time.42200:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,000Accidentally plugged our own website. I know.42300:23:17,000 --> 00:23:21,000Oops. What is this? This is our cat, Joey.42400:23:21,000 --> 00:23:29,000Oh, man. OK. So, yeah, I actually want the picture to be up again.42500:23:29,000 --> 00:23:35,000Oh, so I just wanted to point out how fantastical is this keepers dwelling.42600:23:35,000 --> 00:23:43,000It's if you think about having four families in there, I didn't look to see the average size of keepers family, but42700:23:43,000 --> 00:23:50,000it's a pretty good size for if you consider the lighthouse itself as 100 feet tall.42800:23:50,000 --> 00:23:53,000Oh, yeah. Ten stories. That's you know, it's pretty big.42900:23:53,000 --> 00:23:58,000You can see the windows are arranged in a way that makes me think there's a center wall.43000:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,000So it's like a duplex. It was split up.43100:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,000But I don't know if it was split up into four or if it was split up into two.43200:24:04,000 --> 00:24:10,000And then they shared like maybe one side shared a living room and a kitchen and another side shared a living room and a kitchen.43300:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,000I don't know. I don't know. I think that would be a lot more.43400:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,000It's at least split down the middle. Pretty sure.43500:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,000Because otherwise the windows wouldn't make sense there. Right. Cool.43600:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,000Yeah, it is a really nice house.43700:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,000They also built a fog signal building in 1871.43800:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,000So it took them a year to get around to it.43900:24:25,000 --> 00:24:29,000And it was a 12 inch steam whistle that was right on the tip of the point.44000:24:29,000 --> 00:24:34,000And so naturally after it was I think it was like 20 years or something.44100:24:34,000 --> 00:24:38,000It was just barely connected to the point.44200:24:38,000 --> 00:24:42,000It was just all of that had been eaten away and it was just fairly connected.44300:24:42,000 --> 00:24:48,000So they had to demo that and build a new one that was see.44400:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,000I didn't put it, but they had to build a new one.44500:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,000Not on the cliff anymore. No. Yeah.44600:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,000Yeah, they brought it back back towards the lighthouse.44700:24:56,000 --> 00:25:02,000As you can guess by the location of our lighthouse in California,44800:25:02,000 --> 00:25:07,000earthquakes were a common problem. Yep. Yeah.44900:25:07,000 --> 00:25:12,000The San. 1904 or 1906. 1906.45000:25:12,000 --> 00:25:17,000Is it San Andreas? San Andreas fault? San Andreas. San Andreas.45100:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,000It was just east of here.45200:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,000And the first keeper's log note of an earthquake was in 1880.45300:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,000There's another one in 1887 and 1898.45400:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,000And the keeper said his room shivered, which I.45500:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,000It's terrifying. Yes.45600:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,000Like you don't think of shiver just like, oh, it trembled.45700:25:33,000 --> 00:25:37,000It's like shiver is a very, very fast, sharp movement.45800:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,000Can you imagine your room moving like that?45900:25:39,000 --> 00:25:43,000Oh, it'd be terrifying.46000:25:43,000 --> 00:25:48,000In 18. OK, so then April 18th, 1906,46100:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,000we have the earthquake that we've talked about a couple of times.46200:25:51,000 --> 00:25:55,000San Francisco plus all of California. Yeah.46300:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,000All the way up to Alaska. Right. Yes. Yeah.46400:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,000Oh, yeah. I forgot about that.46500:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,000Insane. Awful. Really awful.46600:26:02,000 --> 00:26:06,000And so this was the keepers log that they wrote about it.46700:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,000Quote, a heavy blow struck the tower from the south.46800:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,000The blow came quick and heavy, accompanied by a heavy report.46900:26:12,000 --> 00:26:21,000The tower quivered for a few seconds, went far over to the north.47000:26:21,000 --> 00:26:26,000And then came back and then swung north again, repeating this several times.47100:26:26,000 --> 00:26:30,000Immediately after came rapid and violent vibrations, running the tower apart,47200:26:30,000 --> 00:26:34,000the sections grinding and grading upon each other while the lenses, reflectors,47300:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,000et cetera, in the lantern room were shaken from their settings47400:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,000and fell in a shower upon the tower floor.47500:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,000Like that is horrible. Sounds expensive.47600:26:43,000 --> 00:26:47,000And you think about this, he's not in his his keepers dwelling,47700:26:47,000 --> 00:26:48,000hanging out with his family.47800:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,000He's in the fricking tower while this is going down.47900:26:51,000 --> 00:26:58,000So what can I do? I know he's got pieces of a lantern coming down all around.48000:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,000And he's like, I wonder what you do.48100:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,000Like, I would just be hugging the wall. Yeah.48200:27:04,000 --> 00:27:13,000So Suffice suffice to say that the tower took considerable damage from this earthquake.48300:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,000They actually kept the light on and running until daybreak.48400:27:16,000 --> 00:27:22,000But then at that point, they saw that the earthquake had basically destroyed the lighthouse.48500:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,000There was yeah, there's cracks all the way up the sides.48600:27:25,000 --> 00:27:31,000And so they did a they came over and did an inspection and realized they just had to tear it down.48700:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,000There was like nothing else they could do to save it.48800:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,000So, oh, another thing.48900:27:35,000 --> 00:27:43,000A black bear was spooked by this earthquake and went in to the tower, like running blindly,49000:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,000like went into the tower. Maybe it was the keepers dwelling.49100:27:45,000 --> 00:27:52,000It didn't specify, but into the light station and they had to shoot it.49200:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,000So I was like, what crazy?49300:27:54,000 --> 00:28:01,000Why would a bear run from the mainland down this point into a building?49400:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,000Looking for a cave, I guess. Maybe. I don't know.49500:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,000Why did you have to shoot it?49600:28:06,000 --> 00:28:11,000Well, it's a bear running a rampant.49700:28:11,000 --> 00:28:15,000A bear inside the house. Yeah, difficult with your children.49800:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,000It's hard to get the broom and shush it outside.49900:28:17,000 --> 00:28:18,000Like, no, no, no, this is not a cave.50000:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,000Is there like news coverage on that? No.50100:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,000Picture nothing. Just like, oh, yeah, we're having bear stew.50200:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,000Oh, you know, as well.50300:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,000I heard it's delicious.50400:28:28,000 --> 00:28:33,000They probably had bigger things to worry about being like, oh, do I have a job?50500:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,000Oh, that's terrifying. So the tower was totaled, we'll say.50600:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,000Yeah. And the house was as well.50700:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,000Everything was destroyed.50800:28:40,000 --> 00:28:44,000Everything that couldn't be used to rebuild, like, you know, damaged brick and whatever,50900:28:44,000 --> 00:28:50,000they just pushed off the cliff edge into the ocean.51000:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,000You know, world's largest dumpster. Is that how things used to be?51100:28:53,000 --> 00:28:54,000I think so. Yeah.51200:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,000What else do you do with it? I guess.51300:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,000The landfill's the same thing.51400:28:59,000 --> 00:29:04,000I mean, you could use it as rubble or something. Riprap.51500:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,000That's true. That's true.51600:29:06,000 --> 00:29:10,000Probably actually helped with corrosion for the most miniscule.51700:29:10,000 --> 00:29:11,000The earth corrosion.51800:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,000Yeah. Well, like the waves, you know, corroding the coast.51900:29:14,000 --> 00:29:18,000With the most miniscule way, you know, these couple of bricks aren't going to change anything.52000:29:18,000 --> 00:29:19,000Yeah, exactly.52100:29:19,000 --> 00:29:24,000After only a couple of months, they built temporary structures for the crew,52200:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,000the construction crew and the keepers.52300:29:26,000 --> 00:29:31,000And a little wooden tower was built with the old lantern room placed on top.52400:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,000So it was short, but it was the same dimensions.52500:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,000This is like the top of the lighthouse.52600:29:35,000 --> 00:29:41,000And they had a temporary second order lens, which started up January 5th, 1907.52700:29:41,000 --> 00:29:45,000So it was a while. Six months? It was out of service?52800:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,000April. Oh, it was April. Yeah.52900:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,000April to January. Wow.53000:29:49,000 --> 00:29:56,000So at this point, they kind of got an idea of what earthquakes can do to lighthouses.53100:29:56,000 --> 00:30:03,000And so they planned on building the next lighthouse on this spot to withstand earthquakes,53200:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,000which is a great idea, in my opinion.53300:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,000So the lighthouse. Wow.53400:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,000Wow.53500:30:11,000 --> 00:30:12,000Oh, my gosh.53600:30:12,000 --> 00:30:18,000The Lighthouse Board hired the Concrete Chimney Corporation of San Francisco,53700:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,000and they make industrial chimneys or smokestacks,53800:30:21,000 --> 00:30:25,000which is why we have the shape of the lighthouse that we do today.53900:30:25,000 --> 00:30:26,000Interesting.54000:30:26,000 --> 00:30:30,000So the way that they constructed the tower to withstand earthquakes is that they54100:30:30,000 --> 00:30:37,000wove iron bars together and they surrounded it with wood, like a frame,54200:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,000and then they filled that with concrete.54300:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,000And that's what the lighthouse is made of.54400:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,000Actually, it was the first lighthouse to ever be built this way.54500:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,000And I think, I mean, obviously they've...54600:30:46,000 --> 00:30:47,000This one?54700:30:47,000 --> 00:30:48,000Yeah.54800:30:48,000 --> 00:30:52,000They've used this on other lighthouses after this, but it's the first one.54900:30:52,000 --> 00:30:57,000Yeah, the Alcatraz Island, the newer lighthouse that's there, is reinforced concrete.55000:30:57,000 --> 00:30:58,000No way.55100:30:58,000 --> 00:30:59,000Yeah.55200:30:59,000 --> 00:31:03,000Because, I mean, it's like octagonal, I think, or pentagonal.55300:31:03,000 --> 00:31:08,000It's an edged shape, but they talked about because of the same earthquake55400:31:08,000 --> 00:31:12,000and the design that they needed for that.55500:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,000Yeah. Cool.55600:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,000And eventually, like while they were building this, as it got taller,55700:31:17,000 --> 00:31:22,000this was before like, I mean, this was still 1907.55800:31:22,000 --> 00:31:30,000And so to get concrete up high enough to pour in, they'd have a mule-powered elevator that pulled...55900:31:30,000 --> 00:31:31,000Poor animals.56000:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,000I know.56100:31:33,000 --> 00:31:37,000Well, we just used them as tools before, at least we replaced them,56200:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,000and now they can live happily ever after.56300:31:39,000 --> 00:31:40,000Yeah.56400:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,000Have you seen how they pour concrete now, like on any job site?56500:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,000No.56600:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,000Well, there's several different aspects.56700:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,000We should probably ask someone who actually knows.56800:31:48,000 --> 00:31:54,000But what I have seen is there's large pump trucks that have elevators, like a crane arm.56900:31:54,000 --> 00:31:55,000Yeah.57000:31:55,000 --> 00:32:01,000And the pump truck has a, you can tell they're revving it up, a large, like diesel-powered engine.57100:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,000It's like a computer trying to place sims.57200:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,000Yeah, a computer trying to cool down.57300:32:05,000 --> 00:32:11,000And it pumps it up, and then it comes overhead, and there are men that are standing on the rebar57400:32:11,000 --> 00:32:15,000that they have all set up, and then it comes out like an elephant trunk, basically.57500:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,000Just all this like spraying concrete.57600:32:17,000 --> 00:32:18,000Oh my gosh.57700:32:18,000 --> 00:32:19,000So they like...57800:32:19,000 --> 00:32:20,000Direct it.57900:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,000Yeah, they direct the hose around, and then they have people like rake it flat.58000:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,000At first, try to just set it up.58100:32:25,000 --> 00:32:29,000But that way they can get it all in one monolithic pour.58200:32:29,000 --> 00:32:30,000Monolithic.58300:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,000Yeah.58400:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,000I know what I'm talking about.58500:32:33,000 --> 00:32:34,000Big wink.58600:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,000I know almost nothing.58700:32:36,000 --> 00:32:39,000So this is a rebar concrete tower, one of the first.58800:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,000I thought smokestacks were bricks, so I was wrong.58900:32:42,000 --> 00:32:43,000Well...59000:32:43,000 --> 00:32:44,000Like the old ones.59100:32:44,000 --> 00:32:45,000They probably were.59200:32:45,000 --> 00:32:46,000They moved to concrete at some point.59300:32:46,000 --> 00:32:51,000Yeah, and then when concrete became a thing, they changed.59400:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,000Especially in places where there are earthquakes.59500:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,000Like brick would last anywhere else, it'd be fine.59600:32:56,000 --> 00:33:04,000But if you're, I mean, the lighthouse has proven that brick structures cave in the face of large earthquakes.59700:33:04,000 --> 00:33:05,000Yeah.59800:33:05,000 --> 00:33:12,000Something I mentioned before is the bottom of this lighthouse now has this donut-shaped buttress around the bottom, which is just like a support.59900:33:12,000 --> 00:33:23,000Especially because the lighthouse doesn't have tapered sides, which is normally how a tower supports itself is by being thicker on the bottom, thinner on the top in that tapered shape.60000:33:23,000 --> 00:33:31,000And now since it's straight up, they added this buttress to the bottom, which is actually also a circular-shaped workroom for the keepers.60100:33:31,000 --> 00:33:32,000The bottom?60200:33:32,000 --> 00:33:33,000Mm-hmm.60300:33:33,000 --> 00:33:34,000The base?60400:33:34,000 --> 00:33:35,000Yeah.60500:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,000Sorry.60600:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,000What do they do in the workroom?60700:33:38,000 --> 00:33:43,000It's like if you need to polish one of the lens pieces, if you had to take it out and replace it.60800:33:43,000 --> 00:33:44,000Yeah, the little shop area.60900:33:44,000 --> 00:33:48,000Yeah, it's just like little stuff for lighthouse keeping.61000:33:48,000 --> 00:33:55,000They also took the original spiral staircase from the old lighthouse and put it in here.61100:33:55,000 --> 00:34:04,000And since it's a different shape on the inside, and also this one's 115 feet tall, I feel like they had to have changed it somehow.61200:34:04,000 --> 00:34:05,000Yeah.61300:34:05,000 --> 00:34:06,000But.61400:34:06,000 --> 00:34:07,000Yeah.61500:34:07,000 --> 00:34:08,000That'd be interesting to see.61600:34:08,000 --> 00:34:09,000Yeah, I would like to go see.61700:34:09,000 --> 00:34:14,000It's probably a really expensive thing to buy would be a metal staircase.61800:34:14,000 --> 00:34:15,000Mm-hmm, true.61900:34:15,000 --> 00:34:16,000So if they could rework it.62000:34:16,000 --> 00:34:17,000It would be better for everyone.62100:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,000Cut and weld what they have.62200:34:19,000 --> 00:34:20,000Yeah.62300:34:20,000 --> 00:34:21,000Yeah.62400:34:21,000 --> 00:34:25,000But that's how we got the lighthouse that we have today.62500:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,000115 feet tall, mostly white with a black lantern room.62600:34:28,000 --> 00:34:29,000I think it's original.62700:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,000I want to say that's an original lantern room.62800:34:31,000 --> 00:34:32,000It looks old.62900:34:32,000 --> 00:34:33,000Yeah.63000:34:33,000 --> 00:34:34,000In a good way, I guess.63100:34:34,000 --> 00:34:35,000It looks classic.63200:34:35,000 --> 00:34:36,000Yeah.63300:34:36,000 --> 00:34:40,000But the so this tower was built in 1907.63400:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,000Yes.63500:34:41,000 --> 00:34:42,000Yeah.63600:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,0001907 was when the temporary tower was built.63700:34:44,000 --> 00:34:45,000With the wood platform.63800:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,000Yeah, the temporary tower.63900:34:46,000 --> 00:34:47,000And then they started building this one.64000:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,000And that one was finished September 15th, 1908.64100:34:50,000 --> 00:34:51,000Wow.64200:34:51,000 --> 00:34:52,000That's pretty fast.64300:34:52,000 --> 00:34:53,000Yeah.64400:34:53,000 --> 00:34:54,000Yeah.64500:34:54,000 --> 00:34:55,000It's about a year.64600:34:55,000 --> 00:34:56,000It's still over a year.64700:34:56,000 --> 00:34:59,000It just I can't imagine building that with the technology available.64800:34:59,000 --> 00:35:00,000I know.64900:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,000They were using mules to lift concrete.65000:35:01,000 --> 00:35:02,000Even today.65100:35:02,000 --> 00:35:03,000Yeah, but today.65200:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,000Like.65300:35:04,000 --> 00:35:05,000Oh.65400:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,000Let alone using mules to lift concrete.65500:35:07,000 --> 00:35:08,000Yeah.65600:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,000It's just daunting.65700:35:09,000 --> 00:35:10,000Yeah.65800:35:10,000 --> 00:35:14,000So at this point, they had a double bullseye Fresnel lens.65900:35:14,000 --> 00:35:15,000Oh my gosh.66000:35:15,000 --> 00:35:16,000Fresnel.66100:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,000Fresnel.66200:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,000Oh my gosh.66300:35:18,000 --> 00:35:19,000Fresnel.66400:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,000It's going to be a rough ride.66500:35:22,000 --> 00:35:23,000Fresnel.66600:35:23,000 --> 00:35:24,000Fresnel.66700:35:24,000 --> 00:35:28,000Fresnel lens on five gallons of mercury.66800:35:28,000 --> 00:35:33,000So we have another mercury rotating Fresnel lens.66900:35:33,000 --> 00:35:38,000A 160 pound suspended weight that rotated the clockwork mechanism.67000:35:38,000 --> 00:35:43,000And it was every 18 seconds it had one turn of the lens.67100:35:43,000 --> 00:35:48,000Which was extremely fast for normally they just had more bullseyes on the lens.67200:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,000But this time it was just a double.67300:35:50,000 --> 00:35:59,000So I should do a history buoy on types of Fresnel lenses because I don't have a picture.67400:35:59,000 --> 00:36:04,000Oh, I do have a picture, but there's someone else in the picture that I'm going to talk about later.67500:36:04,000 --> 00:36:05,000So don't ask.67600:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,000OK, we'll cover it later.67700:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,000Oh my God.67800:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,000Anyway, in the background of this picture, you can see the double.67900:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,000It just means that two bullseyes.68000:36:16,000 --> 00:36:21,000It just means that two bullseye lenses smashed together very close.68100:36:21,000 --> 00:36:29,000So out at sea, you would see two flashes very, very close, but it would still be two distinct flashes and not just one big.68200:36:29,000 --> 00:36:30,000I've never seen that before.68300:36:30,000 --> 00:36:31,000Yeah.68400:36:31,000 --> 00:36:36,000And so you would see a double flash every every six seconds.68500:36:36,000 --> 00:36:43,000And so there were three sides to the Fresnel lens where double bullseye on each side.68600:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,00018 seconds is a full rotation.68700:36:45,000 --> 00:36:46,000Yeah.68800:36:46,000 --> 00:36:47,000Wow.68900:36:47,000 --> 00:36:48,000Yep.69000:36:48,000 --> 00:36:52,000And it had the the clockwork mechanism had to be rewound every two hours.69100:36:52,000 --> 00:36:53,000Oh, no.69200:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,000Just awful.69300:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,000I'm sure that was nice and easy.69400:36:58,000 --> 00:36:59,000Oh, yeah.69500:36:59,000 --> 00:37:00,000Probably just pushing a button, right?69600:37:00,000 --> 00:37:01,000Right.69700:37:01,000 --> 00:37:02,000Exactly.69800:37:02,000 --> 00:37:06,000You just look at it and it just happens.69900:37:06,000 --> 00:37:15,000So we had our lighthouse back in September 15th and after the tower, they focused on building the housing again and this time they build a separate bung.70000:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,000They said bungalow for each family.70100:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,000So there was four bungalows.70200:37:19,000 --> 00:37:20,000Very fancy.70300:37:20,000 --> 00:37:21,000Yeah.70400:37:21,000 --> 00:37:22,000Very California of them.70500:37:22,000 --> 00:37:23,000Mm hmm.70600:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,000Yeah, exactly.70700:37:24,000 --> 00:37:30,000When the Coast Guard took over lighthouses in 1939, they decided to paint all concrete on the tower white.70800:37:30,000 --> 00:37:33,000So let me pull this picture back up.70900:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,000Oh, it wasn't white before.71000:37:35,000 --> 00:37:40,000The main gallery used to be black and there was no particular reason for why they did that.71100:37:40,000 --> 00:37:48,000I think it was just less work because you have to repaint the lighthouse once a year or at least they used to paint it at least once a year.71200:37:48,000 --> 00:37:57,000And it would have been easier to just paint it all white instead of having to worry about, OK, now we tape off here, make it black.71300:37:57,000 --> 00:38:05,000In 1960, the bungalows were demoed and four single story like, is it barrack?71400:38:05,000 --> 00:38:06,000Yes.71500:38:06,000 --> 00:38:15,000Barracks style houses were built, but the tower was automated 17 years later in 1977, which is pretty late for being an automated lighthouse.71600:38:15,000 --> 00:38:20,000And the light characteristic was changed to what it is today, which is one flash, I think every 15 seconds.71700:38:20,000 --> 00:38:21,000Yeah.71800:38:21,000 --> 00:38:22,000In the 77.71900:38:22,000 --> 00:38:23,000Mm hmm.72000:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,000So a light beacon was replaced.72100:38:25,000 --> 00:38:32,000Yeah, yeah, they took out the or they didn't they left the Fresnel lens up there, but they didn't use it anymore.72200:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,000So after that, it's the story of all lighthouses ever.72300:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,000It starts to become a little bit decrepit.72400:38:37,000 --> 00:38:45,000There's no love, no people, no nothing until a nonprofit takes over and brings life back into the lighthouse.72500:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,000And that's exactly what happened here as well.72600:38:47,000 --> 00:38:56,000We had the Point Arena Lighthouse Keepers, which is the nonprofit group, obtained a 25 year lease of the lighthouse in 1984.72700:38:56,000 --> 00:39:00,000And then when that ran out, they were granted ownership over the lighthouse.72800:39:00,000 --> 00:39:01,000That's great.72900:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,000So is it privately owned technically?73000:39:03,000 --> 00:39:07,000Yes, I would I think privately owned by the nonprofit.73100:39:07,000 --> 00:39:08,000Yeah.73200:39:08,000 --> 00:39:16,000So right now, the Foxville building that you can see in this picture is a museum and that's where they moved the first order lens.73300:39:16,000 --> 00:39:22,000So you can see it here, which is part of the attraction of coming to see the lighthouse, as you can see a first order lens.73400:39:22,000 --> 00:39:25,000It's like nine feet tall, six feet wide.73500:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,000It's just enormous.73600:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,000I still have not seen a lens in person.73700:39:30,000 --> 00:39:39,000Everyone is insanity that I've been doing this podcast for a year and a half or something and have never climbed a lighthouse.73800:39:39,000 --> 00:39:42,000I've never climbed a lighthouse.73900:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,000You've been to what? Six lighthouses?74000:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,000Oh, I've been to like.74100:39:47,000 --> 00:39:48,000In person?74200:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,000It's funny because some people go to hundreds of lighthouses.74300:39:50,000 --> 00:39:51,000Like.74400:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,000OK, well most of the people we know have never been to a lighthouse.74500:39:53,000 --> 00:39:54,000That's true.74600:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,000We are in no coast USA.74700:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,000Anyway, back to Point Arena.74800:39:58,000 --> 00:40:10,000The four. OK, first of all, something I was going to mention before I move on is this this first order lens is appraised at three point five million dollars.74900:40:10,000 --> 00:40:11,000Oh my God.75000:40:11,000 --> 00:40:12,000Isn't that crazy?75100:40:12,000 --> 00:40:13,000I should look up.75200:40:13,000 --> 00:40:14,000That's insane.75300:40:14,000 --> 00:40:17,000It was in the tower until seventy seven.75400:40:17,000 --> 00:40:18,000Yes. Yeah.75500:40:18,000 --> 00:40:23,000Well, until seventy seven, they changed the optic and no longer use the lens.75600:40:23,000 --> 00:40:30,000But I think it wasn't until they remodeled the lighthouse, which was in like two thousand five or maybe two thousand.75700:40:30,000 --> 00:40:33,000When the lease ended was a six, I think.75800:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,000The lease ended.75900:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,000Right before two thousand.76000:40:37,000 --> 00:40:42,000And then they were granted ownership and then they needed grants and stuff to remodel the lighthouse.76100:40:42,000 --> 00:40:46,000But I don't know the exact year. I think it might have been like the 2010s sometime.76200:40:46,000 --> 00:40:47,000OK.76300:40:47,000 --> 00:40:53,000But that's when they moved the lens out of the lighthouse and into the foghorn room so that you could actually see it.76400:40:53,000 --> 00:40:54,000See it without going up.76500:40:54,000 --> 00:40:55,000Nowadays.76600:40:55,000 --> 00:40:56,000A lot of cash.76700:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,000I know.76800:40:58,000 --> 00:41:02,000You can rent the keepers cottages to stay in.76900:41:02,000 --> 00:41:03,000Nice.77000:41:03,000 --> 00:41:04,000Yes.77100:41:04,000 --> 00:41:10,000And the lantern room is now, they say, an excellent observatory because it's just a bunch of empty space.77200:41:10,000 --> 00:41:15,000It's an empty room and you can also rent out the lantern room for proposals or weddings.77300:41:15,000 --> 00:41:21,000If you decided to elope, they have an elopement package and you can get married at the top of the lighthouse.77400:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,000Well, I know it's pretty neat.77500:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,000But you can also have full size weddings here.77600:41:25,000 --> 00:41:26,000You just can't.77700:41:26,000 --> 00:41:27,000It wouldn't be you to.77800:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,000Yeah, exactly.77900:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,000They could see you from the ground, though.78000:41:31,000 --> 00:41:32,000Yeah.78100:41:32,000 --> 00:41:33,000You could wave.78200:41:33,000 --> 00:41:37,000Next to the tower is the lintel.78300:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,000Oh, I think you can see in this picture.78400:41:39,000 --> 00:41:40,000That's what I was talking about.78500:41:40,000 --> 00:41:44,000Keeper Owens found it in the surf when he was.78600:41:44,000 --> 00:41:45,000No way.78700:41:45,000 --> 00:41:46,000Yeah.78800:41:46,000 --> 00:41:53,000When he was keeper at this lighthouse, he found the lintel for the original lighthouse that they dumped off the cliff into the water.78900:41:53,000 --> 00:41:56,000And so now it's on display out there.79000:41:56,000 --> 00:41:57,000You can go take a look at it.79100:41:57,000 --> 00:41:58,000That is cool.79200:41:58,000 --> 00:41:59,000I think I do have a picture of it.79300:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,000Yeah.79400:42:00,000 --> 00:42:01,000Actually, that's a great point.79500:42:01,000 --> 00:42:04,000Like, where did they where did they dump all the stuff right there?79600:42:04,000 --> 00:42:05,000OK.79700:42:05,000 --> 00:42:06,000OK.79800:42:06,000 --> 00:42:07,000Probably still there.79900:42:07,000 --> 00:42:08,000Got it.80000:42:08,000 --> 00:42:09,000Yeah.80100:42:09,000 --> 00:42:13,000So speaking of Keeper Owens, this is someone that Ben mentioned when he told us the story80200:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,000of seeing this lighthouse.80300:42:15,000 --> 00:42:19,000So William Owens, he went by Bill.80400:42:19,000 --> 00:42:22,000He was the last second keeper.80500:42:22,000 --> 00:42:23,000Sorry.80600:42:23,000 --> 00:42:28,240The last second assistant keeper of this lighthouse and the last first assistant keeper and the80700:42:28,240 --> 00:42:30,000second to last head keeper.80800:42:30,000 --> 00:42:34,000So he was there for quite a few years in different positions.80900:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,000And then they, you know, axed.81000:42:36,000 --> 00:42:41,000The story of every lighthouse acts one assistant acts in an assistant position.81100:42:41,000 --> 00:42:44,000And then all those left as a head keeper.81200:42:44,000 --> 00:42:48,000So his total service was from 1937 to 1952.81300:42:48,000 --> 00:42:52,000And there was a keeper after him until 1977.81400:42:52,000 --> 00:42:55,000But I didn't find anything on him.81500:42:55,000 --> 00:42:58,000I think he was just a normal lighthouse keeper.81600:42:58,000 --> 00:43:03,000Also, Keeper Owens was the last lighthouse keeper at another California lighthouse.81700:43:03,000 --> 00:43:08,000And something happened there to where it was like a big story or something.81800:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,000You know, it was made some big story.81900:43:10,000 --> 00:43:13,000I didn't look into it because we're not looking at that lighthouse.82000:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,000But if I ever do cover it, we'll come back to Keeper Owens.82100:43:15,000 --> 00:43:16,000Probably will.82200:43:16,000 --> 00:43:19,000There's a bunch of stories about Bill at this lighthouse.82300:43:19,000 --> 00:43:22,000He had six daughters, one of them born at this lighthouse.82400:43:22,000 --> 00:43:28,000The rest of them were at other lighthouses because he served at, I think, five different lighthouses.82500:43:28,000 --> 00:43:32,000They had to rescue their cow, Bessie, off of a cliff, like fell down.82600:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,000Oh, my God.82700:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,000Get the rope. We got to save Bessie.82800:43:36,000 --> 00:43:42,000Yeah. He also reported seeing a submarine during World War II and called and said there's a submarine.82900:43:42,000 --> 00:43:47,000And they were like, there's no submarines in these waters, so you should go back to sleep.83000:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,000And it was a submarine.83100:43:49,000 --> 00:43:56,000And a ship got torpedoed because nobody listened to him saying, hey, there's a submarine.83200:43:56,000 --> 00:43:57,000That's crazy.83300:43:57,000 --> 00:43:58,000I know.83400:43:58,000 --> 00:43:59,000Was it German or Japanese?83500:43:59,000 --> 00:44:02,000I don't know. I think it was Japanese.83600:44:02,000 --> 00:44:03,000I guess I don't.83700:44:03,000 --> 00:44:04,000That's madness.83800:44:04,000 --> 00:44:16,000But yeah, it is part of his job, especially during a time of war, to stand up there and keep an eye out for submarines and ships and suspicious activity.83900:44:16,000 --> 00:44:22,000And he points out a submarine and someone goes, no, that's not possible.84000:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,000What are you doing?84100:44:24,000 --> 00:44:25,000Japan's like way far away, bro.84200:44:25,000 --> 00:44:29,000No, they're not even close to here. There'd be no submarines.84300:44:29,000 --> 00:44:30,000That is crazy.84400:44:30,000 --> 00:44:31,000Yeah. How could you possibly?84500:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,000I didn't know that happened in World War II.84600:44:33,000 --> 00:44:34,000What?84700:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,000That any subs were over here on our coast.84800:44:36,000 --> 00:44:42,000Yeah. The torpedoed a schooner, I think that was pronounced, called Amelia.84900:44:42,000 --> 00:44:51,000I don't have any other details about it, but yeah, it was shortly after that just up the coast from where he had spotted them at the lighthouse where you do that.85000:44:51,000 --> 00:44:55,000Maybe it was a whale holding torpedoes and just accidentally set one off.85100:44:55,000 --> 00:45:02,000So unfortunate. Always listen to your lighthouse keepers during a time of war when they say that they see a submarine in the water.85200:45:02,000 --> 00:45:07,000Or Santa Claus.85300:45:07,000 --> 00:45:17,000So his kids wrote stories about growing up in the light station. And these were in the US LHS archives. They're really, really fun to read. I really enjoyed it.85400:45:17,000 --> 00:45:24,000It's just, you always talk about the lighthouse. We always talk about the lighthouse. And then we mention a keeper too.85500:45:24,000 --> 00:45:39,000But you can't go into full depth about their life. And I was telling Vince too that we should do like keeper spotlights where we just like cover the life of one of the keepers that did a bunch of stuff or went to a bunch of lighthouses.85600:45:39,000 --> 00:45:51,000But I always want to just go on and on and on about some keeper, especially like keeper Owens, that his kids all wrote stories. They all have really cool, interesting things.85700:45:51,000 --> 00:46:00,000I love reading about it. So you guys should too. I'm going to put a link in the show notes so you can go to that. It says it's public. So you can, everyone should be able to access.85800:46:00,000 --> 00:46:01,000That's cool. Read about it.85900:46:01,000 --> 00:46:10,000There's also a book called The Last Lighthouse Keeper, The Season, Storms and Shipwrecks of California's Bill Owens by Stuart McDowell.86000:46:10,000 --> 00:46:20,000And these were based on days of interviews between Bill and his wife Isabella. I think it's either Isabelle. I think it's Isabelle.86100:46:20,000 --> 00:46:29,000In the 80s. So they were interviewed and the author used these to write the story of Bill's life.86200:46:29,000 --> 00:46:43,000Ben, our listener, he said that he was exploring this area with his dad in this last December and they got lost on a muddy back road and that they later found out that it was named, this back road was named after Owens.86300:46:43,000 --> 00:46:54,000But I couldn't find it because, you know, Google Maps is not going to have little back roads named. So I couldn't find it. But that was his story that he had to share.86400:46:54,000 --> 00:46:55,000Cool.86500:46:55,000 --> 00:47:05,000So Ben, we hope you enjoyed listening about this lighthouse. He said it was his favorite and that, oh no, I'll post. He took a couple of pictures of the lighthouse while he was hiking around it.86600:47:05,000 --> 00:47:08,000And I forgot to download them so I could show them on here.86700:47:08,000 --> 00:47:11,000But can we just show them here? I'll insert them on YouTube.86800:47:11,000 --> 00:47:14,000Here, I'm going to look at a great picture.86900:47:14,000 --> 00:47:15,000Great photo.87000:47:15,000 --> 00:47:22,000Yeah. Really awesome. Oh, I want to go there so bad. Look how flat that land is.87100:47:22,000 --> 00:47:23,000That is, that's level. Yeah.87200:47:23,000 --> 00:47:27,000That's perfectly in line with the horizon. What am I seeing at the bottom of the image? Is that rock?87300:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,000I think it's rock with water.87400:47:29,000 --> 00:47:31,000Looks interesting. That's a very pretty photo.87500:47:31,000 --> 00:47:37,000So he sent those in, said that we could use them. So I'll put those in our Instagram so everyone else could see them.87600:47:37,000 --> 00:47:39,000Man, that is flat.87700:47:39,000 --> 00:47:46,000I know. Isn't that crazy? They're probably like, oh, we are definitely putting a lighthouse out here. We don't have to blow up any rock.87800:47:46,000 --> 00:47:49,000So, you know, earlier the picture of the cat that I put up.87900:47:49,000 --> 00:47:52,000Yeah. What's going on with the cat with the mascara on?88000:47:52,000 --> 00:48:03,000There are two guest relations managers at this lighthouse. One is Mina, which is the cat, and one is Tassie, which is a dog.88100:48:03,000 --> 00:48:09,000So if you go to this lighthouse, you can meet the guest relations managers.88200:48:09,000 --> 00:48:11,000I like that.88300:48:11,000 --> 00:48:14,000I got pictures of both. It's necessary that I show them.88400:48:14,000 --> 00:48:22,000Mina as in as a mean cat. Where is it? Nice cat. It looks kind of mean in the photo.88500:48:22,000 --> 00:48:25,000It's a cat. It doesn't have mean faces. Kind of discerning.88600:48:25,000 --> 00:48:31,000I knew you'd say something mean about the cat and then I'm going to pull up the picture of the dog and you're like, oh, so cute.88700:48:31,000 --> 00:48:36,000Yep. If anyone can tell, Vince is a dog guy, strictly with no leeway.88800:48:36,000 --> 00:48:39,000He's got a nice face, like the dark nose.88900:48:39,000 --> 00:48:43,000She's also the rodent control specialist.89000:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,000She probably kills it out there. Yeah.89100:48:45,000 --> 00:48:49,000And there's a picture of her on their website carrying rats. So that's Mina.89200:48:49,000 --> 00:48:56,000And then we got Tassie. Oh, look at him.89300:48:56,000 --> 00:49:00,000It's a great photo. Is it great? She is also a hard worker.89400:49:00,000 --> 00:49:06,000Yeah, I didn't think so. Looks a lot like the one we know. Beautiful flowers still around. Yep, I know. Awesome.89500:49:06,000 --> 00:49:10,000Looks like a great place to visit. Oh, I so badly want to go.89600:49:10,000 --> 00:49:16,000Oh, there's a picture of Bill Owens as well. Cool photo. The top of the lighthouse.89700:49:16,000 --> 00:49:22,000Looks like it belongs in a cocktail bar. Yeah, it looks like it belongs at Salty Dog Saloon. Awesome pipe.89800:49:22,000 --> 00:49:28,000Look at that thing. Also, this is dubbed the best place in the Northeast to whale watch. Cool.89900:49:28,000 --> 00:49:31,000They have gray whales, humpbacks and killer whales.90000:49:31,000 --> 00:49:38,000And they also have a wind and whale celebration where it's like the best time of year to watch to like watch whales.90100:49:38,000 --> 00:49:44,000They'll like come right up to the side of the lighthouse. And then they have big kites, you know, the ones that are like90200:49:44,000 --> 00:49:50,000open so you can make them into figures and like big kites with like a bunch of different connections.90300:49:50,000 --> 00:49:56,000It's like all kinds of stuff. But so they got a constant sea breeze going on. Definitely. Whale festival.90400:49:56,000 --> 00:50:01,000But yeah, I'm going to post the link to the website for this lighthouse as well.90500:50:01,000 --> 00:50:07,000So if you wanted to rent a keepers dwelling, a keepers cottage to go stay in, you can.90600:50:07,000 --> 00:50:10,000I think it starts like two hundred dollars a night or something. So not bad at all.90700:50:10,000 --> 00:50:14,000Yeah. Do you have any map views of where this is at in California?90800:50:14,000 --> 00:50:19,000So it's north of San Francisco, 100 miles roughly. That's about right. That's awesome.90900:50:19,000 --> 00:50:25,000I think there were two other lighthouses built in the 1870s on this coast up here, I'm assuming also right here.91000:50:25,000 --> 00:50:30,000Yeah. That other you mentioned the land turns north. Yeah. Point area.91100:50:30,000 --> 00:50:35,000So it's basically out straight west of Sacramento, a little bit north Santa Rosa.91200:50:35,000 --> 00:50:38,000That is the point arena lighthouse. Awesome.91300:50:38,000 --> 00:50:44,000Google bringing it in with five stars, four point seven, one thousand one hundred and sixty ratings.91400:50:44,000 --> 00:50:47,000A lot of good reviews. Awesome. Well, thank you for your work today.91500:50:47,000 --> 00:50:52,000Oh, yeah, you bet. Finally getting back to American. You asked Vince.91600:50:52,000 --> 00:50:57,000You're the next episode. You're coming up. So are you doing an American lighthouse? Yes.91700:50:57,000 --> 00:51:06,000Excellent. And these are so fun because Lighthouse friends dot com has information on every lighthouse in the U.S.91800:51:06,000 --> 00:51:11,000And it makes it very easy to research because they do really good work collecting information.91900:51:11,000 --> 00:51:16,000A lot of it's from USLHS archives. It's a great resource for us.92000:51:16,000 --> 00:51:20,000Makes it a lot easier to cover an episode, get a head start. 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