Tourist attraction
Alki Point Lighthouse
Octagonal tower marking the southern entrance to Elliott Bay, once lit by a hand-wound Fresnel lens.
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About this audio guide
The guide to Alki Point Lighthouse in Seattle centers on keeper William Auld, who worked twelve hours on and twelve off guarding the southern gate of Elliott Bay while covering his cottage walls with his own watercolors of the sea he watched every night. It follows Auld taking over in 1930 from the first head keeper, Harry Mahler, after forty years of service, and Mahler's daughter Margaret, who chose to marry beside the tower so its light and bells could mark the hours of her wedding. Look up at the octagonal tower these keepers tended, still standing watch over the point.
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