Tours_information terraced rice paddies, rolling green hills, lighthouses, and two Date Time July 2729, 2002 us$350. Proceed to Hualien along the east coast National Scenic http://8thicoc.ntou.edu.tw/tour_information.htm
Extractions: welcome WAC N T O U N M M B A ... Home Optional Tours 1. Wulai Aborigine Village US$38 Wulai is an aborigine enclave in the Taipei suburb s 2. Chiufen Village, Northern Coast and Pi Sha Fishing Port Night Tour US$38 The villages of Chiufen were once center of gold mining in Taiwan. The gold is gone, but this quaint old villages, built of closely-packed houses clinging to steep mountainsides, continues to offer enchanting scenery and fascinating glimpses into the lifestyles of the past. The Northeast Coast National Scenic Area is located in the northeast corner of Taiwan. The scenic area is noted for its numerous capes and bays backed by green mountains. US$35 The main attraction in the bustling old town of Sanhsia, a short distance from Yingko, is a temple which was originally built in 1770. The temple is known for its intricately carved stone lions, carvings, and exquisite bronze bas-reliefs. NOTE: A minimum of 7 persons per tour is required.
Lighthouse Supply Depot was erected on Staten Island to serve east coast lighthouses. Detroit designed to supply the Great Lakes lighthouses. Most of us are extremely proud of our http://detroit1701.psc.isr.umich.edu/Lighthouse Supply Depot.html
Western Cape Tourism BoardArchitecture Of The Western Cape Artcraft Townships More Site map Link to us, West coast, and Arniston on the east coast. interesting architectural features the lighthouse, built according http://heritage.capetourism.org/heritage/architecture.jsp
Links - Fishing,Oceans,Lighthouses,Maritime for 99 groundfish species off the east coast of North of Oceanography Resources from the us National Oceanic A Brief History of Canadian lighthouses Cape Cod http://www.lostatsea.ca/links5.htm
Travel America: The Lure Of A Lighthouse - Travel Views east coast lighthouses, for example, were often the first thing travelers would on its web site almost 20 lighthouses with overnight About us · Advertise with http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCQ/is_6_18/ai_101679851
Extractions: LIGHTHOUSES HAVE A HYPNOtic effect. Even in broad daylight with their lights turned off, they capture our attention. People climb well over 100 stairs just to get a view from the top. For some devotees, lighthouses are a true passion. They decorate their homes with lighthouse memorabilia, put bumper stickers on their cars, and wear clothes emblazoned with their favorite lighthouses. There's even a catalog from the Lighthouse Depot (800-758-1444) devoted to lighthouse merchandise. The commercial side notwithstanding, lighthouses have a somewhat spiritual appeal. It's a story as old as travel itself. One of the seven wonders of the ancient world was the lighthouse in Alexandria, Egypt. The oldest operating lighthouse in America is the one at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, which guards the entrance to New York harbor. It's the only lighthouse remaining from the colonial period, according to Tom Laverty, president of the New Jersey Lighthouse Society.
Legendary Lighthouses: Great Stories-South Atlantic Jekyll Island, once the home of east coast millionaires, is now The first Cape Florida lighthouse was built in 1825 Seminole War broke out after a us Army unit http://www.pbs.org/legendarylighthouses/html/satlgs.html
Extractions: Great Stories: Lighthouses of the South Atlantic Ocracoke and Blackbeard Jinx and the Ghost at St. Simons Island/Shrimpers Cape Florida Lighthouse and the Seminole Indian Attack The Reef Lights and Shipwrecks of the Florida Keys Blackbeard and Ocracoke Lighthouse , North Carolina, 1803, 1823 The first Ocracoke lighthouse was built on Shell Island and was destroyed by lightning in 1818. The oldest operating lighthouse in North Carolina, the present Ocracoke Lighthouse sits on a picturesque, quaint island with beautiful beaches and a charming village. It can only be reached by ferry. Since its construction, it has always been painted white. In the early days keepers painted it with a whitewash concocted by the Lighthouse Board the recipe called for "half a bushel of unslaked lime with boiling water, a peck of salt, half a pound of powdered Spanish whiting, three pounds of ground rice put in boiling water and a pound of clear glue." Blackbeard Ocracoke Inlet is the longest-lived inlet known to man on the Outer Banks, existing when John White painted the Banks in 1585 and supposedly for hundreds of years before. One of its most colorful inhabitants was the notorious Edward Teach, or "Blackbeard the Pirate."
Heron Pond This camp was used by the us coast Guard through 1943 when it was garrisoned by Kagerer, Rudy, A Guidebook to lighthouses in SC, GA., and FLs east coast. http://www.heritagelib.org/History/HeronPond.htm
Extractions: Heron Pond A favorite nesting place of the islands still prolific herons was long appropriately known as Heron Pond. It lay parallel with the main public road on the south side of Broad Creek, between the road and the ocean, south of Pope Avenue on Point Comfort Plantation. Peeples, An Index to Hilton Head Island Names (Before the Contemporary Development ), p. 21. Hilton Head Lighthouse Palmetto Dunes Plantation, Leamington The Federal government retained sufficient acreage of confiscated Leamington Plantation to erect a lighthouse and two lighthouse keepers cottages in 1861. On nearby Broad Creek, where Leamington and Shipyard Plantations met, a dock was built in order to land supplies for the maintenance of the lighthouse and for the World War II Camp McDougel. The dock burned and the keeper's cottages have been relocated to Harbour Town Hilton Head Lighthouse was placed at Bass Head Beach now part of Palmetto Dunes. When the two lighthouse keepers' cottages were moved to Harbour Town in the 196 0's
Essex Coast Ride old get you into the harbour lighthouses, a treadmill is the Bond Street of the east coast shop keepers good brief encounter station buffet kept us out of http://www.greenwichcyclists.org.uk/Reports/essex.html
Extractions: We skipped through Frinton…….."a truly gracious holiday resort which has attracted royalty….Connaught Avenue is the Bond Street of the East Coast…shop keepers maintain an old-fashioned tradition of friendly courteous service". Says the Essex Sunshine website. Must explore.
New Jersey Lighthouses, Barnegat Bay, Sandy Hook In 1948, the us coast Guard gave the tower to the city, which The nation s first lighthouse equipped with radio fog signal, the red brick east Point Lighthouse. http://www.online96.com/towns/lbi/lights.html
Extractions: For your Free copy of the NJ Travel Guide call 1 800 JERSEY7 You'll learn that, just like today's airlines, sailing ships often had to "circle" before conditions were right for a landing. And why each lighthouse has its own color and shape as well as its own code for flashes and foghorn blasts. (Any guesses why there are no white lighthouses where it snows a lot?) Celebrate Lighthouse Month. It could be a very enlightening experience. In colonial America, lighthouses were built initially at busy harbors. The New World's first lighthouse was located at Boston and illuminated on 14th September 1716. More were to follow....some at busy ports and others placed on prominent headlands or dangerous stretches of the Atlantic coast. The Highlands of Navesink was one such headland. Rising 200 feet above sea level, the heights were observed by all the early navigators. Henry Hudson sailed his ship Half-Moon into Sandy Hook Bay in 1609. Robert Juet, a ship's officer, kept a detailed log of the sailing. On 2nd September he wrote "far to the Northward of us wee saw high hills. This is a very good land to fall with and a pleasant land to see." The next day Juet noted "The morning 'mystie until ten of the clocke, then it cleared, and the wind came out of the Southwest so wee weighed anchor and stood to the Northward. The land is very pleasant and high and bold to fall withall"
Extractions: Lab of Functional Neurochemistry, Pavlov Institute of Physiology, St. Petersburg, Russia Vast spaces of the Atlantic Ocean were moving underneath. We were preparing to meet America - not the malls-and-cat's but the entheogens-and-meditation's America. JFK International Airport appeared to be a place of "mechanical" energy and gave us a first impression of emotional separateness. The same feeling of emotional isolation and rough rationality accompanied us in New York during our first days. Fortunately, Massachusetts, where we next visited, had a more relaxed and soft energy. The voice of the MAPS president sounded very enthusiastic and inspiring in the telephone. We were more than curious to meet him. Since we thought of him as an important figure, we dressed very officially for our first meeting. Rick appeared to be a smiling, handsome, youthful, relaxed man, informally dressed. His eyes were shining with humor and cunning. Later, after we had known him for awhile and heard some stories about him, we came to feel that he is one of the most accepting and generous persons we've ever met. He is like the embodiment of the spirit of MDMA. We also understood that MAPS is not only an organization but a circle of people attracted and interconnected by Rick's optimistic magnetism.
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Places To Visit - MDSOS Kids Page us Lacrosse Hall of Fame which includes a history the oldest continually used lighthouse on the east coast. Lighthouse Museum the saga of lighthouses on the http://www.sos.state.md.us/sos/kids/html/places.html
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Extractions: From the US Coast Guard Historian's Office The United States Coast Guard is this nations oldest and its premier maritime agency. The history of the Service is very complicated because it is the amalgamation of five Federal agencies. These agencies, the Revenue Cutter Service, the Lighthouse Service, the Steamboat Inspection Service, the Bureau of Navigation, and the Lifesaving Service, were originally independent, but had overlapping authorities and were shuffled around the government. They sometimes received new names, and they were all finally united under the umbrella of the Coast Guard. The multiple missions and responsibilities of the modern Service are directly tied to this diverse heritage and the magnificent achievements of all of these agencies. AIDS TO NAVIGATION While many of the lighthouses have changed little since their completion, the light sources have continually evolved to provide mariners with better guidance. Some of the earliest optics were merely multiple-wicked oil lamps with reflectors to concentrate the light. The French physicist Augustin Fresnel revolutionized the optics of lighthouses by inventing a lens with annular rings, reflectors and reflecting prisms that all surrounded a single lamp. These lenses proved to be so effective that many are still in use today providing safe roads for maritime travelers
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United States Life-Saving Service Heritage Association Catalog and early heroic stories along the east coast geared to of the California usLSS, Lighthouse Service and Stonehouse, Frederick, Wrecks Ashore us LifeSaving http://www.cottagebooks.com/uslss.html
Coastal East Coast :: Along The Georgia Coast In between the pier and the lighthouse, the visitors center Marys, on Hwy40 10 miles east of I-95 Back on us-17, approaching Florida through the back door http://www.roadtripusa.com/coastal_east_coast/georgia_coast.html
Extractions: GEORGIA COAST Georgia map The "you-can’t-get-there-from-here" aspects can make it more than a little frustrating for casual visitors, but if you have the time and inclination, they also make the Georgia coast a wonderful place to explore. The two main car-friendly destinations along the Georgia coast are Tybee Island in the north, east of Savannah and forming the end of our cross-country road trip along US-80, and the beautiful and history-rich Golden Isles, east of Brunswick. Both are great places to visit, and they offer an appetizing taste of the 100 miles of isolated shoreline Georgia otherwise keeps to herself. Named "the most beautiful city in North America" by the style-arbiting Parisian newspaper Le Monde Savannah (pop. 130,000) is a real jewel of a place. Founded in 1733 as the first settlement in Georgia, the thirteenth and final American colony, Savannah today preserves its original neoclassical, colonial, and antebellum self in a welcoming, unself-conscious way. Famous for having been spared by General Sherman on his destructive "March to the Sea" at the end of the Civil War, it was here that Sherman made his offering of "40 acres and a mule" to all freed slaves. Before and after the war, Savannah was Georgia’s main port, rivaling Charleston, South Carolina for the enormously lucrative cotton trade. As commercial shipping has tailed off, the harbor is now primarily recreational—the yachting competitions of the 1996 Olympics were held offshore. Savannah, home of writer Flannery O’Connor and songsmith Johnny Mercer, also served as backdrop to the best-selling book
