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At the end of El Camino del Mar, a small road just east of Sutro Heights, you can see Mile Rocks now. If the fog isn't in.
At the viewpoint the Park Service has installed an informational sign titled "Shipwrecks". Here is ample justification for the lighthouses, for foghorns. At low tide appear the remains of the Frank H. Buck and the Lyman Stewart, oil tankers that wrecked on the rocks here in the 1920s and 30s.
But you won't see the white 85-foot tower at Mile Rocks anymore. In the 1960s the Coast Guard dismantled the top half of the sentinel, creating a helipad, and automated the station's light and signal. Now Mile Rocks looks like a stubby striped mushroom, as elegant as a mayonnaise jar.
Ending another tradition, the Coast Guard stopped the distinctive foghorns in 1992, replacing them with electronic signals. Protests from romantics all over San Francisco brought some of the horns back.
The fog doesn't care one way or another. Lighthouses, foghorns, wrecked ships and hooting kids won't stop its return. If you don't like it, you'd better move to the Mission district.
At the viewpoint the Park Service has installed an informational sign titled "Shipwrecks". Here is ample justification for the lighthouses, for foghorns. At low tide appear the remains of the Frank H. Buck and the Lyman Stewart, oil tankers that wrecked on the rocks here in the 1920s and 30s.
But you won't see the white 85-foot tower at Mile Rocks anymore. In the 1960s the Coast Guard dismantled the top half of the sentinel, creating a helipad, and automated the station's light and signal. Now Mile Rocks looks like a stubby striped mushroom, as elegant as a mayonnaise jar.
Ending another tradition, the Coast Guard stopped the distinctive foghorns in 1992, replacing them with electronic signals. Protests from romantics all over San Francisco brought some of the horns back.
The fog doesn't care one way or another. Lighthouses, foghorns, wrecked ships and hooting kids won't stop its return. If you don't like it, you'd better move to the Mission district.
