August 16 ~ Point No Point Lighthouse

So let me just say here......... that........ I went around the whole day with this big ol' smear on my camera lens thanks to one of my shutterbugs.   So most of my pictures - unless I could edit around it - with have some smear on it ... it wrecked the family pics we did that day but luckily my Godmother had taken some too...  so there are a handful of pictures from my Godmother - and most of these are mine.

We got lost .....  we went over the Hood Canal instead of going through the rest of Port Gamble.  We were half way to Port Angeles ... at that point, I was like - lets keep going! LOL... because I STILL haven't been to Forks ....

Nathan had settled down some since that morning and it's a good thing I have good travelers .....

These are photos done by Kaedyn in the van ......  the back of my head ..

Self portrait ..........

He was setting up the camera on the seat where I was - and pushing the button ... LOL...  he got these ...

I took this one of Daddy driving ....

When we finally got to Point No Point ... it was busy, there was no parking but handicapped...  course, three handicapped people in the van, but only one had the placard .. lol

Point No Point Light is a lighthouse at Point No Point, on the west side of Puget Sound, near the point where Admiralty Inlet ends, in the small town of Hansville, Washington. Point No Point Light is the oldest lighthouse on Puget Sound.

Local residents wanted the lighthouse located further north on Foulweather Bluff. When the Point No Point location was agreed upon, the owners of the land were reluctant to sell. Finally, the owners agreed to sell 40 acres for $1000. Construction of the lighthouse began in April 1879. The first light used was a kerosene lamp. As 1879 drew to a close, the lens and a glass for the lantern had not arrived, so the first lighthouse keeper, J.S. Maggs, a Seattle dentist, hung a canvas over the south window openings to break the wind and keep the kerosene lamp from blowing out.

Upon completion of the light station in February 1880, the lantern room held a fifth-order Fresnel lens. The original masonry structure was 27 feet (8.2 m) high. The present 30-foot (9.1 m) brick and stucco tower is square and situated between the office and fog signal building. A fog signal, formerly used at New Dungeness Lighthouse, was installed in April 1880. There were no roads to the Point No Point Lighthouse for the first 40 years, so supplies had to be brought in by boat.

Lightning struck the lens in 1931, cracking a prism. The tower was also damaged which required patching and replacing the copper tubing.

In 1975, a 90-foot (27 m) radar tower was built on the west side of the lighthouse. The tower is used for the Vessel Traffic Service (VTS). In 1977, the Point No Point Lighthouse became fully automated, and only required one man to be assigned to the station. In 1990, the fog bell was replaced by a Daboll trumpet. The lens in the tower was changed to a fourth-order Fresnel lens, which is still in place today.

In 1997, the last U.S. Coast Guard personnel left Point No Point and it stood empty until the Coast Guard leased the property for Kitsap County Parks and Recreation.

The Point No Point Light Station is currently the national headquarters of the U.S. Lighthouse Society, a nonprofit lighthouse preservation and educational organization (www.uslhs.org).

Inside the Lighthouse

Nathan decided he was done......  his three brothers standing around him wondering what the heck he was doing.......  LOL.....

Lighthouse Lens that reside in a room off of the gift shop...

Our Family  ....

The Beach ........

My Godmother is in the following two photos ....  We love her tons :)

They had these amazing driftwood benches ...

Some Photography I did ......