Tremendous lighthouse, this. It has the largest Fresnel lens in the world (4 tons!), hand ground in France. It was lifted up from the ocean 110 feet below, and when eventually installed, spun on a friction-reducing bed of mercury until an electronic light replaced it in 1976.

Oh, also - the cost of the lens alone would be over a quarter million dollars in today’s money.

‌

‌

Fantastic scenic overlook. Those are taro farms below.

‌

A big cliff rose up right behind the beach, but I couldn’t get a sense of scale in the picture I took of that.

‌

‌

Taken while passing over these one lane bridges they have in Northern Kauai. They create very strange traffic patterns. Tricky shot looking into the hazy sun.

‌

‌

‌

‌

‌

↓ More