popularity contest

popularity contest, originally uploaded by carolyn_in_oregon.

according to my handy book (ahhhh William Sullivan, how I love thee) the lighthouse at Heceta Head is the most photographed lighthouse on the Oregon coast. I don't know how such things are determined but the view is stupendous.

The headland (pronounced huh-SEE-tah) was named for a Portugese captain of a Spanish ship who first sighted it in 1775 (excepting all the Native Americans who already lived here).

This was the last of Oregon's lighthouses to be built. It opened in 1894 after the bricks were shipped from San Francisco to Florence (just south of here) then hauled on wagons over beaches and the many hills. The 2 tons lens with 640 hand ground prisms was off-loaded onto the cape by surf-boat. See...I read the book.