Photos tagged as lighthouses

Day 59 - Old Lighthouse Museum, Fresnel Lens

This is a fourth order Fresnel Lens, slightly larger than was used in this lighthouse. These were handblown glass.

• Date: 30 October 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Stonington, USA
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Day 59 - Old Lighthouse Museum, Ice Skates

These are ice skates. The platforms are wood and are held to shoes by leather straps.

• Date: 30 October 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Stonington, USA
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Day 59 - Old Lighthouse Museum, Ice Harvesting

The museum has quite an exhibit of the Ice Harvesting business. The saw in the rear was pulled by a horse to scour the ice. Men then cut through it using saws like the one in front.

• Date: 30 October 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Stonington, USA
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Day 59 - Old Lighthouse Museum, Hook, Line & Sinker

This device is called a 'Hook, Line & Sinker' and may have been brought back from the south sea's as a souvenir.

• Date: 30 October 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Stonington, USA
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Day 59 - Old Lighthouse Museum, Cistern

The glass panels are in the floor, so you can see the old Cistern that was under the lighthouse building. There is a similar glass panel over the well also.

• Date: 30 October 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Stonington, USA
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Day 58 - Channel Marker off RI Bridge

There was a guard rail on the bridge, which we had to photograph this through while driving 50 mph. Mom did pretty good under the circumstances!

• Date: 29 October 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Providence, USA
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Day 46 - Fort Point Lighthouse, Maine

This is located at the same State Park as Fort Pownall in Maine, at the entrance to the Penobscot River.

• Date: 17 October 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Bangor, USA
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Day 22 - Lake Michigan Lighthouse

A sunset, my Aunt & Uncle took us to watch the sunset over a lighthouse on Lake Michigan.

• Date: 23 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Saint Joseph, USA
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Granite Lighthouse, Newfoundland

• Date: 20 September 2007
• Photographer: Utrecht: gallery
• Location: Rose Blanche, Canada
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Day 18 - Ashland, WI Lighthouse

Pretty small, maybe more of a channel marker than a lighthouse.

• Date: 19 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Ashland, USA
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Rose Blanche Lighthouse, Newfoundland

• Date: 19 September 2007
• Photographer: Utrecht: gallery
• Location: Rose Blanche, Canada
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Twilingate lighthouse

• Date: 17 September 2007
• Photographer: Utrecht: gallery
• Location: , Canada
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Lighthouse, Newfoundland

• Date: 13 September 2007
• Photographer: Utrecht: gallery
• Location: Gros Morne National Park, Canada
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Lighthouse window view

• Date: 13 September 2007
• Photographer: Utrecht: gallery
• Location: Gros Morne National Park, Canada
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Lighthouse, Gros Morne NP

• Date: 13 September 2007
• Photographer: Utrecht: gallery
• Location: Gros Morne National Park, Canada
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Lighthouse at Cape Reinga

• Date: April 2007
• Photographer: samsara2: gallery
• Location: New Zealand
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Umhlanga Lighthouse

• Date: 8 February 2007
• Photographer: Pheladi: gallery
• Location: South Africa
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Lighthouse at St. Francis Bay, South Africa

• Date: 28 January 2007
• Photographer: diytra: gallery
• Location: , South Africa
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Cape Reinga - view past the lighthouse to the coast and the sea

• Date: 20 September 2006
• Photographer: richardn: gallery
• Location: New Zealand
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Cape Reinga - the lighthouse at the cape, under a stormy sky ...

• Date: 20 September 2006
• Photographer: richardn: gallery
• Location: New Zealand
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Bay of Islands - the lighthouse, and keepers cottage

• Date: 19 September 2006
• Photographer: richardn: gallery
• Location: New Zealand
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Bay of Islands - the lighthouse on Cape Brett

• Date: 19 September 2006
• Photographer: richardn: gallery
• Location: New Zealand
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Lighthouse as seen from Manly Ferry

• Date: 22 July 2006
• Photographer: richardn: gallery
• Location: Australia
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Anchor

Anchor in front of the lighthouse at Cape Otway. There's a ton of wrecks along this part of the coast.

• Date: 14 August 2005
• Photographer: Sam I Am: gallery
• Location: Cape Otway, Australia
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Cape Otway Lighthouse

Looking up at the outside of the Cape Otway lighthouse.

• Date: 14 August 2005
• Photographer: Sam I Am: gallery
• Location: Cape Otway, Australia
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