The location of the St. Augustine lighthouse had always baffled me. It's not near the inlet, and a large bay called the Salt Run and a peninsula called Conch Island is between the lighthouse and the ocean. From the Lighthouse website, I learned that the coastline was so rapidly changing that in 1940, a new inlet was dredged leaving the lighthouse location out of place. Conch Island didn't even exist 100 years ago and what is now Salt Run Bay used to be the ocean. Click on the 'play' button on the interactive map to see how the coastline has changed, especially since 1874. What will the coastline look like 100 years from now?
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Probably a whole lot different that it looks right now..that's a very pretty shot.
Posted by poopie | February 12, 2008 1:18 PM