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A change of scenery. This is Mile Rocks Beach, at the mouth of the San Francisco harbour. You can see the Golden Gate Bridge in the distance. That thing off in the water is the Mile Rocks lighthouse – the lighthouse is built on a rock, so it’s very appropriately named. Looking into the sunset, we are looking straight out into the Pacific. I love this little beach. It’s along a trail that runs along the headland that is a wonderful walk in its own right. The walk down to this beach, however, is not for the faint of heart. Easy to go down, it’s a very steep, long walk back up to the main trail.
More on this lighthouse is here. It’s a really interesting read: there actually used to be keepers living on this rock and there were two more stories plus a light until the coast guard decapitated it in 1966 and put in a helicopter pad. The lighthouse, like many others before it, was put in place after preventable shipwrecks had already occurred and the light that used to cap this building was first lit in 1906 after what was described the worst shipwreck in San Francisco’s history resulted in the death of 128 people in 1901.
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