Tag: “Coast”

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  1. Squan Beach Lifesaving Station

    Approximately 1,000 ffeet rom the Atlantic Ocean, the Squan Beach Life Saving Station was purchased by the town of Manasquan from the Coast Guard in 2000 for $1. A not-for-profit organization is working to renovate the building and plan to establish a maritime museum for visitors to enjoy, and will serve various functions as a community center.

  2. Along the PCH

    A vista along the Pacific Coast Highway just past Big Sur. We found it by chance just as the sun was setting.

  3. Galle To Colombo (Sri Lanka)

    The Galle-to-Colombo train is a long hot trip for a little boy: four hours taunted by the wide blue ocean - so close but just out of reach - moving so slowly you can practically chat with the kids playing on the rocks and in the water, but too slow to catch any breeze.

  4. Pigeon Point Lighthouse

    Pigeon Point Lighthouse is one of the many (and easily accessible) lighthouses scattered along the California coastline. The last time I’ve been there, the federal government was trying to sell the lighthouse to a private party because the $1 million annual maintenance cost was burning a hole in their budget.

  5. Big Creek Bridge

    While Bixby Bridge is one of the most photographed bridges in California, it is likely that neighboring Big Creek Bridge takes top honors. Traveling north five miles beyond Lucia on Route 1, you'll see the bridge in the distance and a paved and often busy parking lot where people are out of their cars looking and taking photos.

  6. Perfection on the Mediterranean

    It is always amazing to me that there are places on this Earth that exist like Nice, France.

  7. Nepenthe

    Nepenthe literally means "the one that chases away sorrow" and it first appears in Homer's Odyssey... more loosely translated, it is the drug of forgetfulness.

    However, the restaurant Nepenthe feels like entering a lair of one of Bond's arch-nemesis villains.

  8. Coast Guard Outpost

    North of Fort Hancock on Sandy Hook is this U.S. Coast Guard Outpost run by the Department of Homeland Security.

  9. Marina Small Craft Harbor

    San Francisco, California

    8 July 2006