Back up on Signal Hill

Here we are again, up on Signal Hill. Here is Grace trying to get some video amidst the howling wind. Signal Hill not only got it's name from the flags strung up signaling the different ships coming in. In 1902 a gent by the name of Marconi used it to recieve the first ever transatlantic wireless signal ever sent that far. Critics said that it would never work cause the signal would just end up shooting out into the earths outer atmosphere. Marconi maintained that it would bounce down off the radio active atmosphere surounding the earth and go right into his transmiters / recievers. He was right and here we were right were it happened.


Just a little sign putting it all into context



A drama in true life getting under way here. Could that be a frieghter out there in high seas coming in ?

Here's the trusty pilot waiting to guide her in.

Just look at the rugged landscape around here looking down on it from the top.

Man it's rough out there.

She can hardly wait to get in here I'll bet!

Ah we,re getting close

Going, going, going

Here we are we made it. I felt like I was part of the effort here.

Here's the pilot coming out of the narrows, past the canons on guard....... against the Russians or something I guess now.

Home safe home going into the dock area to unload all those precious things from the orient.

And here is me watching it all from on top of the citadel.