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Jeff
November 27th, 2007, 03:00 PM
Enjoy!

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071126.html

- Jeff

Lindsey
November 28th, 2007, 12:11 AM
Cool! One of the folks that used to hang out on the old CompuServe ROOTS forum (Sandy Clunies) is a lighthouse historian. She has given lectures on lighthouse families at several NGS conventions, but somehow the timing of those presentations has always conflicted with something else that I didn't feel I could miss.

--Lindsey

Jeff
November 29th, 2007, 01:49 PM
Cool! One of the folks that used to hang out on the old CompuServe ROOTS forum (Sandy Clunies) is a lighthouse historian. She has given lectures on lighthouse families at several NGS conventions, but somehow the timing of those presentations has always conflicted with something else that I didn't feel I could miss.

--Lindsey

"Pigeon Point" is now "Point Reyes"

http://www.nps.gov/pore

http://www.nps.gov/pore/historyculture/people_maritime_lighthouse.htm

Been there; the lighthouse is out there on the end, and back then I could do the mile walk and the 600 steps. Spectacular, but no guard pig. Probably retired to protect the visitors.

- Jeff

Lindsey
November 29th, 2007, 10:50 PM
"Pigeon Point" is now "Point Reyes"
Oh, hey, now this is interesting:

Although the number of amphibian species is limited at Point Reyes, the rarity of species is notable. The highest densities of California red-legged frogs, for example, are located in riparian areas of Point Reyes. This species is now federally threatened but was once abundant throughout California and was the species of Mark Twain’s legend of the jumping frog of Calaveras County.
Never occurred to me to wonder what kind of frog it was in that story!

I'll have to put that on my list of places I'd like to visit someday -- it sounds fascinating. I've never been to the lighthouse at Cape Hatteras, either, and someday I'd like to visit that, too.

--Lindsey