LIGHTHOUSES OF THE WORLD.

ABOUT 10 mi ESE of East Quoddy is WEST QUODDY HEAD LIGHT. This is firmly footed on the mainland to the south of Lubec Maine. Lubec and Eastport seem to have a friendly rivalry as to which of the thwo towns are the most Easterly in mainland US.
West Quoddy is , by US standards, a ship shape lighthouse. It has been worked over so many times that it almost looks like a Levittown tract house. Its picturesqueness is most appreciated in the dense fogs that are common along coastal Washington County MAine.

Gibraltar lighthouse, Europe:



Which is not to be mistaken for Gibraltar lighthouse, Canada:

I am going to keep an eye out on this thread.

Though I never actually walked up to it, I always admired the lighthouse on Roosevelt Island, NYC.

Cape Decision Lighthouse, Alaska

That must be some spherical aberration in the camera lens Francis, cause both the Gibraltar lighthouse and that "filter tipped ziggurat" in the back look like theyre leaning no?



The Delaware Bay lighthouses have contained some of the very earliest of our nations history but there are also these several caisson pile lighthouses that are built in the bay itself.

In the Delaware Bay, we enter (sorta like Panama) where you come in the BAy from the West and sail ENE and the NNE to get up the bay to Philly. The main channel is a central one that lies between the Joe Flogger and Mia Maull shoals. The deep area is called the "manin Channel" . ALong the edge and out from LEwes Delaware is a bank called the 14 foot bank. In 1885 a pneumatic pile caisson light was driven and the entire light completed several years later. The lighthouse had been in continuous opewration and had been manned till the 1990's when it was automated by a subsea electric cable tended by Delmarva Power and the DRBFC. The lighthouse has been sold to an individual who is using the lighthouse for a summer residence.

I did stumble onto the famous lighthouse in Fort Washington Park, Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan.

That's such a cool lighthouse. I'm glad someone gets to use it now (as a residence) rather then let it rust/rot away in negligence.

some pictures of the The Mississagi Lighthouse, built in 1873 by the Department of Transport of Canada to protect and guide ships through the perilous passage known as the Mississagi Strait, off the western end of the Manitoulin Island.

the lighthouse








view from the window under the light



the shore near the light house

One of the most famous/pictoresque German lighthouses


Westheversand (54° 22' N | 008° 38' E)

Two photos I've taken this week


Wilhelmshaven, Navy mole lightfire (53° 31' N | 008° 10' E)



Arngast lighthouse (53° 29' N | 008° 11' E) with ... I can't remember ... leading lights/transit in front

The whole area is my favorite West Coast spot... Pt. Reyes National Seashore

Mmmmmmm, Point Reyes!



Here's one from Porto di Livorno -

lighthouse from the german island of NEU-WERK buillt in 1369 .
it is located in the german bight at the entrance to the elbe river .

While most of the lighthouses are very pretty buildings - have you ever tried to count the seconds of alternating time intervals between the flashes, find out what kind of flash(es) ... and make a bearing at the same time, at 9 bft ... in the bridge wing?

PRESQ'ILE lighthouse on the north-shore of lake ontario at the entrance to BRIGHTON harbour - about 1 1/2 hours drive east of toronto .

Keep em coming. There are so many lights out there. Theyre all so neat arent they?

Walter, is the Wilhelmshaven light something we'd call a "ranging light"?

HAmburger, do you know anything about the actual lights and lenses in that 1300's light?

Oh, that's cool, hamburgboy... I mean the 1369 one. I've not looked at the next one yet..

Yes, the various lights on the Chessie will occult in fixed intervals . Many are fairly close when youre out on the bay. One time I was sailing my buddy;s Pierson (cause everybody else was totally drunk and sleeping) I was the only one awake and I fucked up so bad that I took the wrong occultation and sailed into Baltimore Harbor instead of Rock Hall (whish was on the other side of the Bay) . When I got to fort McHenry, I just dropped anchor near the USCG bouys and since it was a Sunday and no freighter traffic (I reasoned,) I could just go to sleep. We all awoke next AM with A USCG cutter giving us royal **** and I fessed up about being dumb and getting lost, The Coast Guarders said I did sorta the right thing but next time I SHOULDNT tie usp in the middle of the channel. (An ore barge reported me.)
SO, I learnt real quick about ranging and occultations and how to read patterns in heavily used waters.

Im a somewhat safer sailornow, just not drinking was 80% of the answer.

Why did you ask?

Yes, couldn't remember the proper AE-translation (it's 30 years ago).