This picture hangs in our bedroom. It's from one of our favorite places - Cape Henlopen. That was "our beach" when we had our weekend/summer house in Delaware.
If you look closely - there's a ferry boat in the background. It travels across the mouth of Delaware Bay from lighthouse to lighthouse - Lewes Delaware to Cape May New Jersey. We used to hang out on our boat Laffin' Gaff, just out of the travel lane & eat lunch & watch them roll past. We had a visit one day from Homeland Security guys in a Coast Guard cutter. Guess we were suspicious looking characters. They were 'just checkin' on us. After the tough guy start - they were pretty cool.
There's even one here in Chicago.
Here's my favorite - This is in St Augustine. The picture was taken at dusk. Looks like a great place for vampires to hang out.
No matter where you go, St Augustine's LH is on the horizon. This pic was taken from Laffin' Gaff. We have tons of pictures from all angles - but don't want to go crazy posting 'em all.
This picture is included in my soon to be available book, BAD LATITUDE. You'll find it at the start of Chapter 9 Dead Girls.
This is the lightkeeper's house. We've never ever taken a picture there at night without something strange showing up in either the foreground or backgound. I guess you have to expect that from a haunted lighthouse. I can't say for sure if that "stuff" in the picture is a ghost, but it wasn't something added after the fact.
It's only 219 steps to the top of the spiraling iron staircase. No construction workers were killed when the St Augustine Lighthouse was built - but 2 of the construction superintendent's daughters were. I let my imagination run wild with that bit of history when I wrote BL. So what do you get when you mix 4 teenagers, an empty lighthouse at night with 2 dead girls & their long deceased over-protective father? Hmmmm....
I have visited lighthouses from Maine to Florida & I'm always amazed at how they're built & wonder what strange tales & secrets are hidden away in each one's history. It had to be a lonely & difficult life for the keepers & their families back in the day when they had to carry fuel to the top to keep the lights burning. Not a job I would want to do, well, not for very long anyway. I also wonder how many ships were saved from wrecking along the coastline because of their hard work & dedication?
There was a show on TV (Discovery Channel?) about our haunted lighthouse. The 'paranormal experts' were pretty freaked out. Wouldn't it be cool to spend the night alone in one - especially during a storm? Especially if it really was haunted?
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Lighthouse? That ain't a lighthouse. THIS is a lighthouse...
Okay, I don't have an actual lighthouse to unsheath all Crocodile Dundee style. I'm just saying that up here in Maine, we're filthy with the damn things. There are so many lighthouses up here, the state is thinking about initiating a lighthouse hunting season.
We've been thinking about making a trip to Maine & Nova Scotia within the next year - maybe this summer. I'm working on a book with a setting in NS & have family up in those parts. It'll be cool to see the rocky coastlines again, which one reason why y'all are overrun with lighthouses. Save the haunted ones.
Very cool. I can't wait for your book! Sounds very suspenseful!
We like our lighthouses in the Carolinas too. My sister in law got married on Bald Head Island. Ever seen pics of that lighthouse?
Hi Becky - I've seen lighthouses in North Carolina (outer-banks) but not in SC. You will have to post (or email) a picture of the one at Bald Head Island. I dunno (as a guy) if I woulda wanted to get maried in a place with THAT name.
That's right, I'm behind in my blogs. I love lighthouses. The only one we really get to see is in Cape May since it's not too far.
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