from "Finding Oregon's Best" presenting Gallery 45...
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Photos ©0441Distant Tillamook Rock |
Oregon Lighthouses ©0438 Sunny Heceta Head Lighthouse | Lighthouse
Photos ©0437 Heceta Head Ocean Waves |
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Lighthouse map There are nine Oregon Lighthouses |
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Oregon Lighthouses ©0444 Hard Working Arago Light |
Lighthouse Pictures ©0576 Foggy Yaquina Head Light |
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Photos ©0447 Yaquina Bay Twilight |
Oregon Lighthouses(moonlight) ©0451 Heceta Head at Dusk |
Coquille River Lighthouse ©0436 Bandon's Twilight |
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Lighthouse Pictures ©0461 Cape Blanco in the Spring |
Lighthouse Pictures ©0462 Yaquina Head Sunset |
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| ©0445 Umpqua Light | ©0450 Heceta Head | ©0449 Cape Meares | ©0443 Blanco Fog |
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| ©0442 Dune Grass (Bandon) | Oregon Lighthouses ©0446 Yaquina Head Lighthouse Panorama |
©0448 Blanco Night |
This Gallery is a tribute
to the lighthouse ... a monument to a maritime heritage. The
importance of the Oregon lighthouses cannot be overstated. If not
for the light...
There is the
strongest light seen from 21 miles in the sea,
Heceta Head. There's the tallest,
Yaquina Head. There's the oldest,
Cape Blanco built in 1870,
and the newest, the hard working Cape Arago.
The
Coquille River Lighthouse in Bandon is
unique because it currently has a solar-powered system to operate
its light. The beautiful Cape Meares Lighthouse is
in deep contrast to "Terrible Tilly", the nickname given the
Tillamook Rock Lighthouse, bashed
by storms and waves.
In the late 1800's,
Yaquina Bay Lighthouse had the light keepers quarters in the
same building as the tower. The Umpqua River Lighthouse
on Winchester Bay now guards the place where the first Oregon
lighthouse was assembled. It has been rebuilt and repositioned as
many of the lighthouses have been.
Our thanks to the U.S. Coastguard and
volunteers alike. They watch over sentinels who watch over us.
Paul and Marilyn Peck
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All Rights Reserved
Last Updated 5-9-2012