@Curly: Thanks, Curly. Those houses are part of the history of the place - housing Coast Guard personnel who maintained a vast nearby long-wave antenna web. This was used for radio contact with ships far off at sea before GPS and satellite signals made this installation obsolete. I am old enough to have dispatched for a tug and barge operator in San Francisco, and actually did transmissions to deep-sea tugs using this set-up.

As solar winds and the magnetic field shifted - the communications would vary unpredictably. Sometimes our southern California office could read a tug that was far closer to us. We would read who we could and then share the information with those who needed it. From my radio I spoke with vessels from as far away as The Gulf of Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico.

The best news is that these buildings are now a hostel - complete with hot-tub! Part of a network of hostels along the Pacific coast of the U.S. - many of which are in lighthouses.

@willow: Good to hear from you willow! You are right - I have lots of images of this place as does 'Monterey John' and just about any other photographer in the area. It is about 82 km (51 miles) south of San Francisco along the coast highway - on the road to Santa Cruz. I average a trip at least twice a month.