Any lighthouse lovers here?

[TicklingDuo]

One of the projects I've been working on lately is a collection of lighthouse images. We visited a few lights this week while up in Maine and took some pics of our own. I'm also planning to build a lighthouse...probably a replica of the Old Fort Niagara light...at some point in the not too distant future.

Just thought I'd check and see if there were any other lighthouse enthusiastes in the group.

Ann

 

[giggleygirl25]

i love those too...at the labor daze (yah its actually spelled that way on the sign) celebration near where i live...they have a arts and crafts day and there is usually a man there that makes some very beautiful ones 🙂

 

[topless_ticklee]

Great Lighthouse

Nauset Light at the National Seashore on Cape Cod (in Eastham). Also the Three Sisters Lighthouses in the same place. Beautiful!!

Topless

 

[qjakal]

Lousy...

with lighthouses out here by Orient Point and Montauk Point..if you ever visit the Island you'll have fun! Q

 

[TicklingDuo]

Cool! We hit Portland Head, Portland Breakwater, Cape Elizabeth Twin lights, Wood Island and Goat Island. Unfortunately, we had to walk a nature trail full of poison ivy to see the Wood Island light. But, I've had it so much anyway, that it's not a big deal to get it a little more. lol We'll have the pics back on Monday. I'll put them up then...if boomspeed lets me.

Ann

 

[JoBelle]

Hi Ann,

I'm a liflong resident of a coastline, and also have a fascination with lighthouses!

This is a link that takes you on a brief tour of the Gulf Coast (of Mexico) lighthouses from Florida to Texas. It includes the one just minutes from my house, The Biloxi Lighthouse. It's a grand sight to see in its stark white beauty! I believe, if memory serves me correctly, that it is the only one in the country that happens to be in the center of highway! (#90)

http://www.wheelmeon.org/gulfcoast.html

Joby

 

[Strelnikov]

Model of Old Fort Niagara lighthouse

Which one? There was a light built on top of the Castle after the War of 1812, replaced by a more permament lighthouse in the same location in the 1830's. This was in place until the fort was renovated as a historic site in the 1920's.

The 1830's light was replaced as a working lighthouse by a stone tower built in the 1870's. The 1870's tower was later topped out an additional 50 ft or so. It's still there but no longer in use. The rooms at the base are a souvenir shop.

Strelnikov

 

[TicklingDuo]

Strel....This is the one. Just go down to point 5.

http://www.oldfortniagara.org/tour.htm

Ann

 

[Strelnikov]

Niagara Lighthouse

Thought so. The top part (above the castle-looking part) of the stonework is an 1890's add-on.

How about the Barcelona NY lighthouse? On Lake Erie shoreline, near the PA state line. Built 1817, I think. It was the first in the USA to be illuminated by natural gas. Gas flame heated lime chips to incandescence, produucing a bright white light - much better than earlier oil flames. BTW, same technique was used for theater lighting, hence the term "in the limelight."

Strelnikov

 

[HeBeGeeBee]

When we lived in Florida, my wife and I (how can I put this delicately?)...sort of "indulged each other" in a lighthouse south of Daytona. I guess that qualifies my as a "lighthouse lover"...🙂

 

[TicklingDuo]

My folks are visiting this weekend. They love lighthousese as well, esp. my mom. So, we're going to take them on a tour of the many CT lights (and Watch Hill in RI). Without counting those on little islands and reefs in the Sound, we'll have 13 to hit. Guess I'd better grab more film! lol

Ann

 

[Rasputin]

I don't really want to go in to great detail as to where I live for the sake of my anonimity.

However, I have two lighthouses to see by sunrise, and one lighthouse to see by sunset. I live on the shallowest of the Great Lakes, and often drink my morning coffee, and evening beer in the presence of these beautiful-architectured life savers.

Two of the lighthouses require binoculars, but one is only a mile down the shoreline. Of course, I can see all three lights easilly at night!

I too share your appreciation of these often historic structures!

Rasputin

 

[Neutron]

I Live..

On the Greak Lakes, which have the largest collection of lighthouses in the world. Michigan has quite a few. They're gorgeous. In fact I have the Lighthouses Of The Great Lakes T Shirt and there's an excellent book on them. Wasn't it at Hatteras they moved that lighthouse about a mile a couple years back? Quite the Engineering feat.

Mike

 

[TicklingDuo]

Re: I Live..

Wasn't it at Hatteras they moved that lighthouse about a mile a couple years back? Quite the Engineering feat.

Mike

Yes, it WAS Cape Hatteras. (If you're interested in seeing pictures, I'll dig up the link for you.) The beach has been eroding at a rate that would have caught up to the old location before too much longer. So, as one crew worked on a road to transport it over, others worked on securing the structure and getting it up on hydrolics in order to be moved...without tipping it as they did with another older lighthouse.

I saw this take place with a two story house that was moved around the corner of a city block (maybe a total of 100 yards) in order to make room for a parking lot. That in itself was quite the feat. I can't imagine how much work was needed to secure that thing!

Ann