New Dungeness Light Station on a beautiful summer day.
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New Dungeness Light Station.
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New Dungeness Light Station.
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View from the tower, out along the spit.
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View of the Keepers Quarters and ever-growing sand spit, from the lighthouse. At the time of this picture, the sand spit was roughly 5.5 miles long. It is the longest natural sand spit in the United States and one of the largest natural spits in the world.
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Paul Mowery and the New Dungeness Light Station Association do a wonderful job preserving this historical site.
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This modern optic was installed in 1976. The fourth-order Fresnel Lens was moved to the US Coast Guard Museum in Seattle. (http://walightkeepers.com/Gallery/album13?page=8) When the original Fresnel lens was extinguished for the final time, Coast Guard keeper William A. Byrd wrote: "The prism lens was turned off ... and the sparkling glass and rotating prism lens was replaced with a cold apparatus." Amen...
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New Dungeness Lighthouse.
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New Dungeness Lighthouse. This modern optic replaced the magnificent Fresnel Lens.
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