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What You Can Do With What You Can Find

 The story I posted three days ago about the lighthouse for sale in Sitka, Alaska I found on this website called Completely Coastal. The website is a delightful mix of all things creative which are found by, or taken from the sea. If you missed the story, click on the photo left to take you to […]

Not Beachcombing

No, the title does not mean I have gone a wee bit balmy. This article is about finding things but not on the beach. It is also not really about lighthouses, but does take place on, or near a lighthouse where my wife Karen and I were first stationed. When I saw the photo below […]

Lighthouse Quotations

I wasn’t going to do this page because there are not too many lighthouse quotations out there. The only two good ones I found were:  Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. – Benjamin Franklin   I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to […]

A Quick Present for Christmas

I came across this item in a sale flyer that came out today. It is a jigsaw puzzle lighthouse in 3D. It is available in many places in Europe, and possibly in America (Canada and USA), although I did not find it in Amazon.ca or Amazon.com. The finished tower is 8.3 cms (3.25″) wide  by […]

What Do You Do On a Lighthouse?

Besides the usual question Don’t You Get Bored?, the next question “What do you do on a lighthouse?” also needs to be answered. What do you do in your house? TV, video games, go to a show, eat out? We did not have those luxuries, so we worked with our hands as they did in the […]