PointReyesLighthouseInside
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Two views of the inside of the lighthouse.
This blurs on the edge of this first picture are actually a grating which I had to poke the camera through, as the light area was locked up. This is the whole lens assembly, which rotates via the gear you can see on the bottom.
In the early 1920s, an electric motor was added to spin the lens and bypass the clockwork mechanism. The clockwork was left intact as a backup due to the very unreliable electric service to the lighthouse. It was last used when the power failed in 1972, just a few years before the lighthouse was decomissioned.
