Table Bluff (California)

Table Bluff (Wiyot: Giloulh)[1] is a semi-flat terrace in Humboldt County, California, that terminates above the ocean in a dramatic, 165-foot (50 m) high cliff with views of the Eel River delta, the South Spit of Humboldt Bay, and the Pacific Ocean.

An additional 102 acres (0.4 km2) were purchased for the tribe by the federal government in 1981 as the result of a lawsuit settlement.

A fog horn and a Navy wireless telegraphy (later radio) station were in place by 1915 at what eventually became a Coast Guard facility at the point of the bluff.

In 1970, the Coast Guard cited Seaman Robert Mark for "extraordinary heroism" while serving as crew of CG-44234, for rescuing the operator of the fishing vessel Alice, which sank just west of Table Bluff.

8 acres (32,000 m2) of the surplus Coast Guard property were purchased by Norman Kenneth Smith, an evangelical minister, in 1970, and renamed Lighthouse Ranch, which was part of what became an international ministry known as Gospel Outreach.