Tag: lighthouse

• LIGHTHOUSE PASSION SERIES – ST. AUGUSTINE

  

  Whenever I mention the lighthouse in St. Augustine, Florida, on Anastasia Island, I know immediately if that person has been there. Gasps of “Now that’s a climb” or some variation usually occur. The 209 steps appear daunting, and it can seem as if the winding spiral staircase is never going to end , but suddenly…

  P. C. Zick

  May 6, 2025

  Books by P. C. Zick, environment, historical fiction, Lighthouses, Ramblings of a Writer

  Florida lighthouses, lighthouse, Native Lands, Sir Francis Drake, Spanish arrival in Florida, St. Augustine, Timucuans

• The Lighthouses of the Forgotten Coast of Florida

  Florida’s Forgotten Coast – I almost hate writing about this section of Florida along the Gulf of Mexico coastline at the eastern start of the Panhandle. It is remote, beautiful, rural, and filled with small fishing villages that once thrived in the early days of Florida’s history. Along the Highway 98, Florida’s coastal scenic road,…

  P. C. Zick

  February 25, 2025

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  Cap St. George Lighthouse, Cape San Blas, Cape San Blas Lighthouse, Carrabelle Florida, coastal scenic highway, Crooked River Lighthouse, Florida lighthouses, Florida’s Forgotten Coast, lighthouse, Port St. Joe, St. George Island, St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge

• Lighthouse Passion

  A dark and stormy night out on the seas with waves crashing the sides of the ship and cargo and crew slipping from port to starboard through the tumultuous waters threatened many a sailor and passenger with burial at sea as the ship neared shore and unknown dangers of a rocky coast and shallow sandbars…

  P. C. Zick

  February 18, 2025

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  Atlantic Coast, Big Bend, Florida lighthouses, Florida Panhandle, Florida’s Forgotten Coast, Great Lakes, Gulf of Mexico, keeper’s quarters, lighthouse, Michigan lighthouses, Montauk Point, navigational guides, sea travel

• The Wise Writer Does Not Make the Oprah Angry

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick When I began my writing career, somewhere in the back on my mind I still held the romantic vision of myself typing on a manual typewriter lost all day in the world I would create on the page. If only. When my first novel came out in 2000, my publisher wrote…

  P. C. Zick

  October 12, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer

  authors, fiction, James Frey, lighthouse, memoir, nonfiction, novel, Oprah, publishing, St. Augustine, writers, writing