Cape Meares Lighthouse

I just read on Wikipedia that the Coast Guard turned off Cape Meares Light on Wednesday June 25, 2014, as it was no longer considered necessary for... more

by Joan Carroll

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Cape Meares Lighthouse

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Joan Carroll

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Photograph - Digital Photograph

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I just read on Wikipedia that the Coast Guard turned off Cape Meares Light on Wednesday June 25, 2014, as it was no longer considered necessary for safe navigation of the seacoast That means I visited only 6 days before this. How sad. The Tillamook County Pioneer reports: One hundred and twenty-four years after the U.S. government illuminated the Cape Meares Lighthouse, the U.S. Coast Guard permanently removed an automated beacon at Cape Meares State Scenic Viewpoint, leaving the headland in the dark for the first time in modern history. The Air Station Astoria Aids & Navigation Team disconnected the beacon, installed in 1963, on Wednesday, June 25. In some ways the beacon was a casualty of Coast Guard budget cuts, and in others of evolving technology. So the automated beacon is removed" When you visit Cape Meares, you walk down a sloping pathway to the lighthouse, then the lighthouse sits even farther below so that you are eyeball to bulls eye with the lens. The Fresnel lens remains in the lighthouse tower despite the decommissioning of the light...the automated beacon was in another building from the lighthouse. The lighthouse is the shortest along the coast, at only 34' tall.

FEATURED PHOTO, Abc Group - C Is For Coastlines group, 5/7/15

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FEATURED PHOTO, The World We See group, 7/5/14

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July 5th, 2014