Posing Pelican at Stearns Wharf Abstract
by Barbara Snyder
Title
Posing Pelican at Stearns Wharf Abstract
Artist
Barbara Snyder
Medium
Photograph - Digital Painting
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Posing Pelican at Stearns Wharf Abstract by Barbara Snyder
California Brown Pelican resting on a piling just off Stearns Wharf in Santa Barbara California.
Stearns Wharf is a pier in the harbor in Santa Barbara, California, United States. When completed In 1872, it became the longest deep-water pier between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Named for its builder, local lumberman John P. Stearns, the wharf served the passenger and freight shipping needs of California's South Coast for over a quarter century. Before the wharf, passengers and cargo had to be rowed ashore through the breakers and kelp. Despite the great convenience offered by the wharf, Santa Barbara remained a fair-weather harbor with an acute need for a breakwater. During December 1878, storms destroyed and washed away more than 1,000 feet of the wharf. Despite these losses, it would be another 52 years before Santa Barbara got its needed breakwater.
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January 6th, 2017
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