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Entering the Light - created by photogirl723


Entering the Light
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(5 years and 2331 days ago)

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nice....

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EmiK says:

Very cool angle here =)

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Cape Hatteras Lighthouse - created by photogirl723


Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
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Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, at 208 ft., is the tallest lighthouse in the United States. In 1999, due to extensive shore erosion, the lighthouse was moved 2870 ft. inland to protect it from being washed away at sea.
(5 years and 2518 days ago)

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sammlea says:

I love the colors in this!

avatar DigitalDreamer

Love the perspective, and colors. Nice comp.

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Cape Hatteras Lighthouse - created by photogirl723


Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
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Saved from being taken out to sea, the lighthouse was moved to a new spot.

The Hatteras Lighthouse resides in Hatteras, North Carolina.
(5 years and 2708 days ago)

avatar jerostone
jerostone says:

Awesome! Cape Hatteras, always a deadly threat to mariners. After all those years, I still have nightmarish memories of some vicious pitching and rolling, and of battling it out to stay afloat, on route to N. York, or shortly after leaving the harbor. But still... those were the days, my friends. Thank you for reminding me, author

author says:

So glad I could bring forth a great memory. Those waters are full of wreckage from those less fortunate than yourself.

(5 years and 2707 days ago)


avatar lincemiope

really great photo and great story

author says:

Thank you, lincemiope! Here's some more history:

It was built with 1,250,000 bricks baked in kilns along the James River in Virginia and brought in scows into Cape Creek where it was hauled by oxen one mile to the building site in Buxton. Its walls at the base are 14 feet of solid masonry and narrow to eight feet at the top. Weighing 6,250 tons, the lighthouse was built with no pilings under it - just a foundation built of heart pine. Towering 196 feet from the base to the top brick and then topped with an iron superstructure it become the tallest brick lighthouse on the American coast at 208 feet and at a cost of $155,000.00.

In the summer of 1999, as the ever-encroaching waters of the Atlantic Ocean threaten this stalwart structure, the Cape Hatteras Light was moved from its original location!

(5 years and 2705 days ago)


avatar lincemiope

That was really nice. I'd like to see where exactly. I am from a seaside town, but we do not have big lights in the Mediterranean.
There are tides?
thanks

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