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A light fog is illuminated by the sequence of two white and one red flashes that guide Mariners towards the mouth
of the Umpqua River and into Port at Winchester Bay, Oregon.
The Giant Fresnel Lens that sits atop this lighthouse is 6' in diameter, 10' high and weighs in at 2 tons. Hand cut
in Paris, France in 1890, this First-Order lens has 616 prisms and the projected light can be seen as far as 19 miles seaward.
| Laura Milholland | 13-Oct-2011 22:39 | |
| Ruth Voorhis | 13-Oct-2011 17:20 | |
| fotabug | 13-Oct-2011 16:57 | |
| bill smith | 13-Oct-2011 16:02 | |
| Ed Duverger | 13-Oct-2011 15:10 | |