[Leica] IMG: OT Equip - Lime Kiln Park

[rgacpa at yahoo.com (Bob Adler)]

Hi Jim,
Thanks for looking!
Well I guess it's one of the few places along that coast that doesn't just 
drop 200 feet into the water: you can see the beach on the close side of the 
bridge (that wasn't here when they were built) in the image on this page:
http://www.slostateparks.com/limekiln/default.asp
So maybe the access was relatively easy, but why they would build it 3/4mi. 
up a hill is, as you say, a wonder.
Seems this was a big industry at the end of the 19th century; there are 
parks all over:
http://www.parks.wa.gov/parkpage.asp?selectedpark=Lime%20Kiln%20Point
http://www..co.ozaukee.wi.us/history/LimeKilns.htm
Bob
?Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.raflexions.com



----- Original Message ----
From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols@bellsouth.net>
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Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 8:16:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: OT Equip - Lime Kiln Park

Bob,

Beautiful collection of photos.? One wonders why they chose such a difficult 
spot.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Adler" <rgacpa@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 9:59 PM
Subject: [Leica] IMG: OT Equip - Lime Kiln Park


After Yosemite in April/May, attention turned back to Big Sur. About an hour 
south of the town of Big Sur is a California State Park, Lime Kiln. If you 
drive in and walk down to the ocean, it's completely uninspiring. The first 
time we did that and just got back in the vehicle and continued on.

Next time, on a tip from a co-worker, we went the other way, deep into a 
beautiful redwood forest with at least 3 major streams. One ends at a 100 
foot high waterfall which I didn't shoot. It's not a regular waterfall with 
a couple of torrents showering down; it has about 100 little falls that fan 
out from the top so the bottom of the falls is as wide as the falls are 
high. Jim Brick has some good shots of it, after climbing like a mountain 
goat which I wasn't about to do.

Another stream goes up to the lime kilns. These are mammoth kilns built in 
the late 1800s to extract lime from the limestone. There are 3 of them, each 
about 30 - 40 feet high; steel turrets falling apart in these beautiful 
overgrown redwood forests. How they built these monstrosities way up on this 
hill in the middle of nowhere and how they got the lime stones up and 
resultant lime back down is beyond me.

The third major stream is just a beautiful walk going nowhere; my kind of 
place...

http://www.raflexions.com/LKP

Hope you enjoy these. Certainly worth a walk if you're ever in the area,
Bob

P.S. - Tech stuff: Hasselblad (flex and 203), Velvia 50 and FP4 taken with 
various combinations of apprx. 40lbs of gear muled around on my back...
Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.raflexions.com




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