Point Fermin Lighthouse

Last Sunday a friend and I went to visit the Point Fermin Lighthouse in San Pedro, CA. I love lighthouses. It’s on my bucket list to live in one someday. The Point Fermin Lighthouse was built in 1874 and is built in the “Stick Style” of architecture and is very Victorian looking. It is an actual house with the light on top. I love when there is a house because I like to think about the lighthouse keepers and what their lives where like when they lived there. It turns out the Point Fermin Lighthouse had some very interesting keepers. From 1925-27 the light was run by two sisters named Thelma and Juanita Austin. As you can imagine it was not common for women to be running lighthouses in those days. The Austin sisters had some experience though, as they had been living at the Point Fermin Lighthouse since 1917 when their father was the keeper. What interesting women they must have been! Below are some pictures of the lighthouse.

The lighthouse was restored in 2002 and opened to the public in 2003. You can tour the lighthouse, though we were not able to while we were there. I guess I’ll have to go back sometime. Oh darn. Volunteers from the Point Fermin Lighthouse Society give tours and keep the lighthouse open. The gardens there are gorgeous. I went a little crazy taking pictures of all the flowers. Some of the photos I took are below.

I love, love, love this one!

I'm really curious as to what these are. Any ideas? There's a more detailed picture below.

There are a lot of other attractions to see in the Point Fermin area. The lighthouse is close to the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, Fort MacArthur Museum, and the Los Angeles Maritime Museum.

View of the ocean through the wall at Point Fermin.

For more information on the Point Fermin Lighthouse their website is here:

http://www.pointferminlighthouse.org/

As an aside, this was the second time I had to write this post. Note to self: It might be a good idea to write your entries ahead of time and save them somewhere before you write them on Blogger and then accidentally delete them before you get them posted. I don't know, I'm just thinking out loud here.