At 115ft (47m) Pigeon Point is the tallest lighthouse on the West Coast of the United States. Located between Santa Cruz and San Francisco it has been guiding ships navigating this stretch of the Pacific coast since 1872. Before then many vessels have been wrecked in this area because of the dense fog making it impossible for the mariners to see the land.
The frequent fog also makes it hard to see the stars here as virtually all summers nights are fogged in. But as autumn started, and the fog relented for a few days, I had a chance to see the vertical Milky Way in tandem with the lighthouse. Below is the same lighthouse, but shot from the beach in the spring when the Milky Way is rising in the southeast.
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