A love of lighthouses

[Andy Treen]

Happy National Lighthouse Day!

Here's a couple of favorites I have on my phone.

Highland Light

Highland Links GC Truro, MA

Sankaty Head Light

Sankaty Head GC Siasconset, Nantucket Island, MA

Latimer Reef Light

Fishers Island Club Fishers Island, NY

- Andy

[Greg Beaulieu]

Lighthouses look great. Post pictures whether there is a golf course in the picture or not.

I've often told my wife that someday we will own and operate a lighthouse B&B. The East Brother Lighthouse in San Francisco Bay had an opening for a caretaker/B&B manager a couple of years ago but my wife wouldn't let me apply. Plus you have to be certified to run the ferry back and forth to land.

Come up to Nova Scotia and you can likely buy one for $1 if you agree to take on the maintenance and site remediation. Most of them have heavy metal and fuel oil contamination in the ground around them that needs to be addressed before they can be re-purposed.

In Canada the federal government deemed lighthouses  - most of them, anyway - as no longer needed for marine navigation over  a decade ago. They have been trying to unload them ever since. I am not a sailor so I suppose their position is accurate for most mariners these days. They have stopped most maintenance and most have been decommissioned. The romance of the things has not gone away, and many locals have formed societies to try and preserve them but there is little funding to do so. They have ideas like turning them into museums or restaurants of B&Bs but most are fairly remote so the business model is lacking. But the opportunity to lose your shirt awaits!

[JLahrman]

I'll put it under consideration. I've lost money in all sorts of fun ways over the past few years, a change of scenery might be what I need!

[Alex Lagowitz]

About 10 miles outside of Cruden Bay en route to Peterhead is a small town called Boddam which has a very neat lighthouse.  Interestingly, there is a private enterprise that bought the island which the lighthouse resides on and now offers two cottages attached to the lighthouse as daily rentals.  I stayed there recently and really enjoyed it.  I was told - although I can't confirm - that Boddam Lighthouse is the eastern-most point in all of the UK.

[mike_beene]

Samoset in Maine has a lighthouse you can walk out the breaker to.

[Howard Riefs]

A bump for National Lighthouse Day.  (Yes, there's such a thing.)


http://www.lighthousefoundation.org/museum/natllighthouseday_info.htm

[Mat Poade]

An artist that likes to paint them.

http://www.peterheard.com/peter/home.html

[Tom_Doak]

Alas, you can take the lighthouse at Mulan Bay off your list.  It doesn't look like that project will happen as long as the current administration in China remains in power.

[BHoover]

I was in Duluth earlier this week (until our son went wild and we had to cut the trip short and head home). I saw a lighthouse on Lake Superior and Northland CC. That's all I have, sorry.

[Andrew Simpson]

Wick has a lighthouse on the bay,

[Matthew Mollica]

Cape Schanck Lighthouse (on the southern tip of the Mornington Peninsula) is visible from both Flinders GC, and St. Andrews Beach.