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photo by Donald Kinney
The tiny town of Bolinas... Down there s-o-m-e-w-h-e-r-e in darkness--obscured and blotted out by the sun.
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photo by Donald Kinney
This image of Point Bonita (above) is from January 2012.
Well, I suppose they all weren't massive ships, but during the Gold Rush Years reportedly over 300 craft ended up on the rocks and/or sank while trying to find safe passage into the Golden Gate without navigational aids.
Point Bonita is on the north side of the entrance, and in the mid 1850's planners mistakenly located the first lighthouse too high--at 306 feet--and above the fog where it couldn't be seen by ships. In 1877 another was built near the tip of Point Bonita at 124' above sea-level and still operates today.
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