ECOLOGY
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East Brother Lighthouse at Sunset; San Pablo Bay, CAPrints and licensed images do not have protective, disfiguring watermarks. See more about this below.
ECOLOGY
PHOTOGRAPHIC
East Brother Lighthouse at Sunset; San Pablo Bay, CAPrints and licensed images do not have protective, disfiguring watermarks. See more about this below.
Construction of the two-story Victorian dwelling with attached tower began during the summer of 1873 and the light from a fourth-order Fresnel lens was first displayed from the forty-eight foot tower on March 1, 1874.
Less than an hour from San Francisco on an island in the straits that separate San Francisco and San Pablo bays, this Victorian lighthouse inn offers overnight accommodations Thursday through Sunday. After a 10-minute boat ride from Point San Pablo Yacht Harbor, located just outside Point Richmond, California, guests climb a vertical ladder 4 to 12 feet, depending on the tide level. There are four rooms with queen beds in the lighthouse and one room with a full-size bed in the fog signal building. Rainwater is collected in a cistern for use on the island, and only guests staying more than one night are permitted to use the showers. Rates include a lighthouse tour, hors d'oeuvres and champagne, a four-course dinner, a full breakfast, harbor parking, and a boat ride to and from the island. Once on the island, visitors take in the spectacular views of the San Francisco skyline, Mount Tamalpais, and the Marin coastline.
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About the ugly, distracting watermark: I truly do apologize that it is necessary to place this on the images. I hate to disfigure them with watermarks or my name, etc. However, after dozens of episodes of finding my images used without payment (and often without even any credit) on websites across the globe (from Japan to Finland to Italy), as well as numerous domestic infringements, I've found it easier to be proactive in protecting my work rather than spend dozens of hours trying to track down compensation from the image thief. Getting payment from domestic image thieves is not too hard, but it is very difficult to deal with international misappropriation. That is why most of the thumbs on this site cannot be enlarged and there is protective code to stop right-clicks. I wish it wasn't necessary... but unfortunately, it is. Thanks for understanding.