As you wander up you find the lighthouse isn't as high as the other buildings.
Why? The surveyors plotting out Point Sur learned from the mistakes at
the San Diego lighthouse -- if you build it above the ceiling of clear
skies under the fog bank, the light disappears. So, Point Sur is a little
more than 100 feet below the peak of the volcanic rocky mass of the Point.
From the light, we took the final journey up another 100 feet to
the lightstation's buildings.
The barn housed cattle, horses and chickens, then U.S. Coast Guard
vehicles, and now... empty.
Even light keepers have to go potty; this concrete ledge once held
the outhouse.
The bottom floor was first the engine room to bring
supplies up, then was the head keeper's place.
The replica of the water tower, and the
original cistern to the left of it. (The water tower actually is made
of fiberglass, and houses AT&T's phone antennas.)
The other three keepers lived in the triplex next door.
