Windiest Spot
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: Oculus Fine Carpentry Traditional Sash Joinery , Window Conservation and Research Monday , September 16, 2013 Windiest Spot Just up the road a bit from Port Orford is Cape Blanco State Park , one of the windiest spots in the world . The state park includes the iconic lighthouse , the Hughes House and also a pioneer cemetery . If you are lucky enough to visit on a non-wind day the views are spectacular . The lighthouse originally contained a first order Fresnel lens but was swapped out to a second order in 1936. Second Order Fresnel . lens Pioneer Cemetery The vacant grassy area once had a small chapel situated on it . A Roman Catholic chapel named St . Mary , Star of the Sea . It has long since disappeared into the . ground All the bodies have been moved to another cemetery but the
: Oculus Fine Carpentry Traditional Sash Joinery , Window Conservation and Research Saturday , August 31, 2013 530 Steps As I traveled back north on 101 I stopped off at Port Orford Heads State Park . The state park is the location of the Port Orford Lifeboat Saving Station . The remaining structures consist of the officer-in-charge quarters and the barracks building . The unusual thing about this station is that because the barracks house is located on a headland and the only way down to the water is by using 532 wooden and concrete steps . The barracks house The Coast Guard rescuers would run down the staircase in an emergency and launch the lifeboats from the boathouse . Often in the dark and most likely in stormy weather . The start of the 530 . steps A motorized . lifeboat 280 feet