Glass

Here we are on the very tip of Western Australia where the two oceans The Southern Ocean to the right and the Indian Ocean to the left meet.
It was blowing gale force although no rain today and not cold at all, the wind was loud enough noise to drown out our voices!

Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse: the elevation of the glass light is 56 metres above nautical level, until 1982 (the year we arrived in western Australia) the lens was rotated by a counter weight driving clockwork mechanism, and the beacon was a pressure kerosene mantle type. The tower was automated in 1992.
The Foundation stone was laid by Lord Forrest (he was the premier of the colony at that time) in 1895.

Cape Leeuwin was named by Mathew Flinders on 7th Dec. 1801, at the commencement of the circumnavigation of Terra Australia taking the name of the adjoining area which had been called Leeuwin's Land by the Dutch navigators when Leeuwin rounded the the cape in March 1622.
The Lighthouse has a history about its keepers, too lengthy for my journal.
Also the landing of the settlers in the 1800's on Flinders Beach those pioneers too have a long history for another time...
we had a wonderful day.