Talk about the most lonely lighthouse in the world. You almost want to give the Prídrangaviti Lighthouse in the Westman Islands of Iceland a hug. This Icelandic lighthouse was built in 1938, right before the onset of World War II. And by no means was building a remote Icelandic lighthouse an easy task. Construction workers had to scale the cliff to reach where to lay the lighthouse groundwork. What else did they face? Slick rocks, rain, and heavy winds - leaving the workers safe in the knowledge that one misstep would land them in the icy-cold North Atlantic Ocean that rages below. Now-a-days, workers can take a helicopter for needed repairs. Alcatraz was made famous in the movie, Escape from Alcatraz. It's also a tourist attraction. And an old prison. Think of what a mind-screw it would have been to be a prisoner in Alcatraz. It's located right in the heart of the San Francisco Bay - where inmates had the most spectacular view of San Francisco. It's only 1.25 miles offshore from Fisherman's Wharf. Alcatraz opened as a military fortress in 1828 and then operated as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. It was said on New Years Eve, prisoners could actually hear people celebrating in San Francisco from their prison cells. Talk about torture. Talk about disco inferno, this is the charred remains of a fire at a nightclub in Austria. Fortunately, no one was injured. The club formerly could hold up to 2,000 people. The fire completely gutted the club, melted the interior, and left the blackened DJ booth to rot. The site became a hotspot, so to speak, for urban explorers.
Hmmm, I should post a photo of my exercise room that I set up after the kids moved out. Talk about a "lonely" place. :tumbleweeds:
@Patsy Faye Been there, marveled at it, returned time and again, over the years. Discovered such beauty by accident, on my honeymoon in 1965. Headed West out of our home near Chicago, had never seen a mountain even, thought we would try to make it as far as my Uncle's place north of L.A. In Central Utah, just west of Green River on I-70, a big sign proclaimed "Save 4 hours to Los Angeles", left turn onto a two-lane. Desolate rather boring desert scape for many miles, then, a small town, Hanksville, where we saw huge numbers of heavy, earthmoving machines. Unknowing for perhaps another year, they had been left there after completion of Glen Canyon Dam, which was then in the process of filling Lake Powell: 710 feet high, averages production of 4 billion kilowatt-hours of electric power a year. The lake is huge, encompassing the red-rock areas like the Wave above: Lonely places, yes, but unspoiled largely due to that fact. The 20 years-earlier built Hoover Dam, downstream by some hundreds of miles, forms Lake Mead, with a shoreline of 550 miles. All of this came about as a result of the presence of the Colorado River, which my wife and I are so fortunate to be located 2 miles from it! Frank