Battery Point Lighthouse is Crescent City's most visible, tourist accessible, lovely lighthouse. The Island can be walked to at low tide. It is mentioned in the Young adult novel "wings" and stars heavily in the book, "walk across the Sea" The Tidal wave of 1964 that destroyed the town and killed 11 people, parted and went around this light.
Beatuiful POV, Dixie. Love the framing with the grasses. Your colors are so very soft and lovely. Yet the action of the ocean is so much a part of this photo. The part in your comment where the tidal wave parted and went around the light is amazing, isn't it?
I just love this shot! Wow- beautiful lighthouse, wave splashing, windswept coastline- fantastic shot. This is my kind of beach and I would be walking out to it during low tide for sure (taking pictures all the way!). That is absolutely amazing about the tidal wave too. This shot is picture perfect!!
@karenann There was a lighthouse keeper there that year, and the man's wife was taking a bath in an old claw foot tub, in a round room at the base of the tower, no curtains there, and she said she looked out to see the sea pull way back and expose the ocean floor as a big wall of water formed, and then plowed straight toward them but it separated and went around. The town itself was flattened for blocks, and fires started and there were surges after.
this march (2011), when the huge tsunami hit Japan, our boat basin was deserted by a tsunami again, but not the town, but we lost a lot of crab boats and all the docks and the harbor was filled with silt and sludge.
That is some story, Dixie! I think that I might have had a heart attack right then and there had I been that lighthouse keeper's wife. Reminds me of the Red Sea parting. Literally! Thank you so much for sharing that.
this looks like a painting, in the style of canada's group of seven, a group of landscape artists in the 1920's - the colour, the scene, the atmosphere. great shot, especially with the action of the waves at the foot of the rocks. the framing is a bonus!
i'm curious about that 1964 tidal wave and i'm going to look it up. your story is quite intriguing and interesting. when i was still a little girl in the 60's, while eating lunch at home, our whole town (we lived by the manila bay) was suddenly flooded, but it was the 'tail' of the tidal wave caused by the earthquake in chile. i will definitely check this out.
This is a beautiful scene...and how devastating that people lost their lives here. Wow! I can't believe that you can walk to this island. That's interesting....
this march (2011), when the huge tsunami hit Japan, our boat basin was deserted by a tsunami again, but not the town, but we lost a lot of crab boats and all the docks and the harbor was filled with silt and sludge.
i'm curious about that 1964 tidal wave and i'm going to look it up. your story is quite intriguing and interesting. when i was still a little girl in the 60's, while eating lunch at home, our whole town (we lived by the manila bay) was suddenly flooded, but it was the 'tail' of the tidal wave caused by the earthquake in chile. i will definitely check this out.