To be honest, this post is rush job, just to quickly get something on the blog before the month runs out. I haven't missed a month in four years, and would horribly hate to break that streak.
(I'm being over-dramatic on purpose.)
Anyway, things have been crazy-busy here with a project that was supposed to have ended over a month ago, and that will perhaps actually end this week. Hooray.
Thus, I have a backlog of blog topics. Here's one:
Locals in Wellfleet, Mass., a small town on Cape Cod, thought their harbor's lighthouse was dismantled and destroyed over 80 years ago. Turns out they — and everyone else in the world who cares about these things — were wrong. The lighthouse had actually been moved to San Francisco, where it still stands, shining its light over another ocean.
The now-named Point Montara Light Station is in a great spot for photography, which makes me wonder why I didn't stop to shoot it on my 2000 trip to the Pacific Coast Highway. I think I was in a rush to get into the area of Ano Nuevo State Preserve for an early-morning seal shoot the next day. Oh, well; next time.
Incidentally, the mystery was first uncovered by Colleen MacNeney and her parents, Bob and Sandra Shanklin. The Shanklins are lighthouse experts who have in the past helped me with questions about this site's Photographer's Guide to American Lighthouses. Their website is TheLighthousePeople.com.
