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@farmerman,

Hi FM, I saw a news story about Ram Island Lighthouse this morning and thought of you. Check out this link: http://www.ramislandlighthouse.com

Apparently this guy is trying to get a lot of people to collectively "own" this lighthouse. I think it's $45 bucks to get your piece of ownership.

Here it is:

http://avinphotos.com/images/Ram_Island_ledge_lighthouse__DSC_0039.JPG

More info on the lighthouse: http://www.lighthouse.cc/ramislandledge/history.html

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i saw the hopper lighthouse in new york. it just keeps you still, like the place to go after all is said and done. consul raul dado, philippine consulate, macau , china

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Allegedly there is a lighthouse under this mess:

http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/csm-photo-galleries-images/photos-of-the-day-images/2010/1216/11/9205593-1-eng-US/11_full_600x400.jpg

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Thick ice coats the lighthouse at the entrance to Cleveland harbor. While northeast Ohio got a respite from the winter storms earlier in the week, ice-slicked roads prompted warnings of treacherous driving conditions and delayed school openings across a swath of the country, mainly in the South, while the East Coast braced for more snow.

Mark Duncan/AP

http://www.csmonitor.com/CSM-Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2010/Photos-of-the-day-12-16/(photo)/325208

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@tsarstepan,

OK tsar, Its your week to chip the ice off.
Where the hell is the light? and how the hell did this happen? They need some sort of a deiceing rig like they use on planes.

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@farmerman,

http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/csm-photo-galleries-images/photos-of-the-day-images/2011/0217/15/9609122-1-eng-US/15_full_600x400.jpg

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Rough surf lashes a pier near a lighthouse at the Douro River's mouth in Porto, Portugal. Strong winds and heavy rain have been battering Portugal for the past few days.

Paulo Duarte/AP

http://www.csmonitor.com/CSM-Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2011/Photos-of-the-day-02-17/(photo)/339491

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Here is a local lighthouse that I know about in Point Atkinson, British Columbia:

http://www.lighthousefriends.com/pointatkinson2_2009.jpg

Here's a link to some info on this one:

http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=1108

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@Reyn,

Im glad to see that you guys dusted this thread off. Ive got such a case of cabin fever that I feel like driving somewhere to look at a lighthouse. Portugals too far to drive so Ill go up to BC

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@tsarstepan,

At first glance I thought that might be one of Christo's "wrapped" works, tsar.

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@msolga,

Imagine being the lighthouse keeper at that station. Waking up with the alarm clock. Looking out the window and thinking the alarm clock must be broken as nothing can be seen out of the window. Then going right back to sleep.

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@tsarstepan,

But alarm clock might have frozen & be out of operation ... Smile

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Teh "Marginal Way lighthouse" in Ogunquit, Maine, is said on various websites, to have no function and only act as a landmark.
It has a function: inside is a pump for the town's sewerage system Very Happy

(Own photo, taken last week)

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@Walter Hinteler,

Did you make it to Eastport? Thats where we go and begin our ocean voyages . Im going up later this summer and hope to take a few day sail on the "Haley"

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@farmerman,

No, it was just a day-tour (from Salem, where we stayed), and that was the most 'northern' point we came to.

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@Walter Hinteler,

abandoned russian lighthouse

http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/aniva-lighthouse-russian-nuclear-abandoned5.jpg

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The abandoned Russian nuclear lighthouse on Sakhalin

Sakhalin is Russia’s largest island, 950 km long and just off the east coast, slicing down the middle between the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk. In the 1800′s both Japan and Russia became interested in annexing it, the Russians for use as a penal colony, leading to years of conflict, retrenchment, and buildup of military forces. A ring of light-houses were built on Sakhalin’s rocky coast to signal incoming troop carriers and merchant ships.

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@hamburgboy,

not an easy trip to Canadian Tire for some chains

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@farmerman,

http://www.leuchtturm-welt.net/HTML/DEPK2/ORIGINAL/PILLAU0.JPG

lighthouse in ( former ) PILLAU , now part of kaliningrad , russia

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@hamburgboy,

Miaqh MAull Shoal was a sand clay shoal that runs lengthwise along the Delaware Bay. It was a notorious keel dragger until the lighthouse was installed as a barrel vault light that straddled the shoal and , with its port and starboard lights, it would remind sailors to remain several points either side to make the trip up the bay to New Castle or be lightered for a trip as far north as Trenton

http://www.shutterpoint.com/photos/N/873603-Miah-Maull-Shoal-Lighthouse-2_view.jpg

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@farmerman,

lighthouse in salvador da bahia , brazil - built into the old fort

it was one of the stopovers on our cruise from valparaiso to lisbon in 2006

( the pix is from wiki )

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@farmerman,

dagerort lighthouse - estonia

Quote:

Kõpu (Dagerort)
The first Estonian lighthouse, finished in 1531. During the centuries, on the dark half of the year open fire was kept on the top of it's stone tower to provide light signals to the navigators.

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Some of the photos I took of Puerto Rican Lighthouses.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-opsF3OW6Bjs/TjO00XrsQBI/AAAAAAAAHbQ/ympYmyskl-A/s512/DSC_0220.JPG

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-n3VRdp8iJlQ/TjO1QlCA8GI/AAAAAAAAHbY/DNAUqe3lga0/s512/Holiday%2525202009%2525201049.JPG

Lighthouse: Ponce, Puerto Rico, Faro de Punta Higuero, Rincón, P.R., Some of the best surfing in the world on this coast.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-_2SpklCGhdc/TjO1RZJ7jbI/AAAAAAAAHbY/h1Mi4yFeEa0/s512/Holiday%2525202009%2525201050.JPG

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-TCucdLcHjCY/TjO1P84HL3I/AAAAAAAAHbY/NmKzEP7kHOY/s512/Holiday%2525202009%2525201023.JPG

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-EmPQeA9lgs0/TjO1V8W8goI/AAAAAAAAHbY/tQeC-y-AXC0/s800/Holiday%2525202009%2525201194.JPG

Faro de Cabo Rojo, Los Morrillos, P.R. 1882

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-OLxiwi50Af8/TjO1Vcdrd6I/AAAAAAAAHbY/0RLpjPFePQk/s720/Holiday%2525202009%2525201192.JPG

The coast on the northern side of Cabo Rojo.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-U0bSe_sNW3k/TjO1SPa7UMI/AAAAAAAAHbY/eVZDpeGKL_E/s512/Holiday%2525202009%2525201170.JPG

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Vy8r3d7o-Mg/TjO1UrE6P4I/AAAAAAAAHbY/XUvTBM7fF9Q/s720/Holiday%2525202009%2525201182.JPG

Fibonacci's Curve? Staircase Faro de Cabo Rojo

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-M-_r7wTtCCs/TjO1SzyCrRI/AAAAAAAAHbY/25PHRy8O1fs/s720/Holiday%2525202009%2525201171.JPG

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-2p6TbV-G6IE/TjO1UFiYZRI/AAAAAAAAHbY/5tfMx1Qe5_c/s512/Holiday%2525202009%2525201179.JPG

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-XlPBKKvAN-w/TjO1TnHjlpI/AAAAAAAAHbY/epbbC0tEPzw/s512/Holiday%2525202009%2525201178.JPG

Wall's Papered with pages from The Odyssey, a past lighthouse keeper was a fan of the book. There are copies tucked away all over the place.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-BLyH68NV_qk/TjO3EXWXVbI/AAAAAAAAHbo/uQ1pWWRsiPg/s800/Holiday%2525202009%2525201156.JPG

South of Cabo Rojo, sheltered bay and salt flats, centre left.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-B8pNN6OjR7E/TjO1WpSnf0I/AAAAAAAAHbY/Y7oqfgAr-hk/s800/Holiday%2525202009%2525201209.JPG

Oldest known, still running business in N. America. These salt flats were first mined by the natives on Puerto Rico over a thousand years ago, then the Spanish took over, using fair business practices, I'm sure. It's know run by a private company and was, during it's heyday the source of comic book ads, sea monkies or brine shrimp.

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