One more great day here in the midst of Washington state. It started out rather grey and damp this morning, but by noon it was pretty much all sunny with a few high clouds again.
Beautiful! My sister and I drove over to a local lake and had lunch at a little café overlooking the water. Fish and chips for me along with several glasses of very cold ice tea. Yum.
    Afterwards we drove into a small town nearby, Mossyrock, and drove up and down the main streets just to see what was there. As it turns out..... not much, just a small rural town with the required 2.3 eating establishments, a brand name gas station with attached store, a city park somewhere near the middle of town and a couple school buildings somewhere on the outskirts. We headed on back to the house after that and spent most of the afternoon sitting outside on the deck or around the pool drinking beer and talking to each other.
    Tonight Martin cooked dinner for us all, chicken adobo over rice, with fresh tomatoes and cucumber and onion salad. Other than that it has just been enjoying a very mellow evening.

Alki Point Lighthouse near Seattle, Washington - Oct 5, 2014

I spent several hours one afternoon trying to find and then take a couple pictures of the Alki Point Lighthouse. I did eventually find the lighthouse, but found it difficult to get a good photo because the grounds are closed to the public after the summer tourist season. This is so the Coast Guard Commandant of the 13th CG District who now lives in the old keepers residence. With that in mind, here are a few photo's I did manage to get. Here also is some history of the lighthouse...... The present concrete fog signal building with attached, thirty-seven-foot octagonal tower, was completed on April 29, 1913, and the station was activated a few weeks later on June 1.

The fourth-order Fresnel lens used in the tower was manufactured in Paris and had multiple bull's-eyes. A  mechanism, powered by suspended weights, was used to rotate the lens and produce a group of five white flashes every ten seconds.

The fourth-order Fresnel lens used in the lamp tower was changed in 1962 to an airway beacon, a rotating, reflecting light similar to those used at airports. The new beacon flashed every five seconds and was six times brighter than the Fresnel lens, which is now on display at the Admiralty Head Lighthouse.

From pictures I have seen of this lighthouse, it appears like the same design was used to build the one at Wilson Point Lighthouse near Port Townsend Washington.

The remaining keepers home that is now the residence of the Commandant of the 13th Coast Guard District.

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