Light houses

[donna52522]

This may have been done before, but not since I can recall. Share your favorite (or favourite, for those who don't speak English) light house picture here, but please keep it on the downlow, as we all know, Mr. Stevens is not a big light house fan.

[Tchocky]

No lighthouse thread can be complete without La Jument!

[Oberon]

That's a great picture Tchocky, my favourite in fact, I recall a large print of that picture was on the wall at my old GPs, I remember looking at amazement at the size of the wave. A reminder that compared to mother nature, we're but fleas on a very big dog. What's the prayer... "Oh lord, your sea is vast and my ship so small."

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

Nice one Tchocky! Here's a couple of mine.

Sanibel Island Lighthouse

Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse

[Aktungbby]

Kalaupapa Lighthouse Moloka'i Hawaii <Pidgeon Point Lighthouse on the San Mateo coast S. of San Francisco ...My favorite photo op...seen on the job>

[Rockstar]

Split Rock Lighthouse up on the North Shore of Lake Gichi Gami. Our family used to visit it quite often.

[Jimbuna]

Souter Lighthouse approximately three miles up the coast from me.

[Von Tonner]

Here is not my "favourite" (apologies to donna52522) but two close to each other of importance - as if any lighthouse is not, but still. Agulhas lighthouse is approx an hours drive from my abode, and Danger Point is right across the bay I overlook. It was built in response to the Birkenhead tragedy.

It was this sinking that gave rise to the protocal when abandoning ship "woman and children first" as the soldiers on board stood back to allow the woman and children to use the very few life boats the ship had. Out of 643 passengers only 193 survived.

The Cape Agulhas lighthouse is on the Southernmost tip of Africa and was built in 1848 on the classic Egyptian Pharo's style. It is here that the Indian and Atlantic oceans meet.

Again in response to many ships meeting their demise. To quote a farmer who agitated for the building of the lighthouse in 1840: " ‘I have been painfully called upon to witness ship after ship cast away, valuable cargoes strewed along the beach, and hundreds of human beings at a time washed dead upon the shore.’

To which a sea Captain remarked in 1949: ‘No words are adequate enough to express that feeling of relief at seeing the welcome flash of such an important focal point as Agulhas. Remember, it is not the sea which the sailor fears – it is the land.’

AGULHAS


DANGER POINT


HMS BIRKENHEAD

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

Split Rock Lighthouse up on the North Shore of Lake Gichi Gami. Our family used to visit it quite often.

As made famous: The Song of Hiawatha 1855



'By the shore of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
At the doorway of his wigwam,
In the pleasant Summer morning,
Hiawatha stood and waited...'
I canoed past there in the 70' enroute to Grand Isle;<This one just down the road: the North Pier Lighthouse at Duluth Harbor marks the entrance to the Duluth Harbor Canal, an utterly treacherous passage-15-20 foot waves. During one of Superior's infamous storms in 1967; Boatswain’s Mate First Class Edgar Culbertson, Boatswain’s Mate Second Class Richard R. Callahan, and Fireman Ronald C. Prei from the local Coast Guard base braved the storm and ventured out on the pier to rescue the two boys reportedly stranded at the pierhead light. The men tethered themselves together, with a spacing of twenty-five feet, and by the light of hand lanterns, proceeded to the end of the pier.
After finding no trace of the boys at the lighthouse, the coastguardsmen headed back. While making their way along the pier, a twenty-foot wave swept Culbertson off his feet and carried him over the breakwater wall and into the turbulent Lake Superior waters. Despite a valiant effort by his crewmates, Culbertson perished. Culbertson was posthumously awarded the Coast Guard Medal, and a plaque on the north pier commemorates his sacrifice.

[Fubar2Niner]

Mrs Fube taking in the sea air:

[Wolferz]

Need some bigger pictures.

The ones above blew the side frames off my monitor.

[Rhodes]

Our Lighthouse, of my home town:
Farol do Cabo Mondego! by rhodes pinto, on Flickr

And another one from near by!

Lighthouse by rhodes pinto, on Flickr

[nikimcbee]

Haceta Head LH.

[Gargamel]

These two are a few minutes from my house on Lake Erie.

[Fubar2Niner]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

Need some bigger pictures.

The ones above blew the side frames off my monitor.

Yup sorry on that photobucket won't play nice