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Mise Tales Forty-Seven

October 23, 2014antiques, deck prisms, lighthouse, litehouse, quilts, weather, wind, wine bottleAdvertisement, Art, Construction, Environment, Equipment, History, Hobbies, Lighthouses, Ornaments, Souvenirs, WeatherretlkprLeave a Comment

For an update on what a Mise Tale is then please see Mise Tales One. As mentioned earlier on the front page of my website, any photos or cartoons, or short bits of information, when it is removed from the front page, will also be included again later in the next next Misc Tales posting. That way you can keep track […]

Mise Tales Forty-Six

October 11, 2014book, Great Bear Rainforest, Italy, lighthouse, litehouse, magazine covers, photos, videArt, Beachcombing, Books, Books, British Columbia, Canada, Environment, Europe, First Nations, Fisheries and Oceans, Fishing, Foreign, Information, Italy, Lighthouses, North America, Oceans, Oceans, Oil Spills, Photos, Recreation, Shipwrecks, Souvenirs, VideosretlkprLeave a Comment

What Happens If You Break It?

October 2, 2014Fresnel lens, lighthouse, litehouse, restorationAdvertisement, Art, Construction, Equipment, Florida, History, Light, Lighthouses, North America, USA, WorldwideretlkprLeave a Comment

Classic Fresnel Lighthouse Lenses (Youtube) Another benefit of Facebook (FB), if you subscribe to the right channels, is the notification of new webpages. In this case a friend on Sentinelles des Mer (FB) led me to their webpage in Belgium www.sentinelles-des-mers.be again in French in case you clicked on the first link already. What a beautiful […]

Something a Little Different!

September 29, 2014drawings, fish boat, humour., lighthouse, litehouse, sketchesAdvertisement, Drawings, Drawings, Facebook, Fishboats, Humour, Lighthouses, Souvenirs, Transportationretlkpr1 Comment

One of the nice things about Facebook is that you get to meet a lot of great people. One of the newest I met was Tom Crestidina on a webpage in Facebook called West Coast Fisherman. Now my website is dedicated to lighthouses, and West Coast Fisherman is dedicated to “Fishing and fishing boat photos from […]

Refuelling a Lighthouse

September 23, 2014diesel, Facebook, helicopter, hovercraft, Ivory Island, lighthouse, litehouse, refuelling, Scarlett Point, shipAdult Memories, Boats, British Columbia, Canada, Coast Guard, Environment, Equipment, Helicopters, Hovercraft, Icebreakers, Keepers, Lighthouses, On The Job, WorkboatsretlkprLeave a Comment

British Columbia (BC) lighthouses mostly have diesel generators unless they are close enough to a large town or city to allow a power cable to run to them. So how does one refuel a lighthouse as most of them are sitting fairly high above the water line and very distant from a local gas station? Well, thanks to […]

Mise Tales Forty-Five

September 14, 2014lighthouse, litehouseAnti-Automation, Art, Drawings, Environment, Equipment, Europe, Light, Lighthouse Models, Lighthouses, Tourism, Travel, Visitors, WildliferetlkprLeave a Comment

Cruising the Inside Passage

September 13, 2014BC, BC Ferries, British Columbia, Inside Passage, lighthouse, litehouse, Northern ExplorerAlaska, British Columbia, Canada, Environment, Ferries, Lighthouses, North America, Travel, USAretlkprLeave a Comment

Many of the British Columbia lighthouses, manned and unmanned, are along BC’s world-famous Inside Passage. Today I came across a new story on the Internet about this fabulous trip and it is onboard the new BC Ferries vessel vessel MV Northern Expedition (aka NorEx). MV Northern Expedition The article is called Cruising the Inside Passage from explore […]

Updates

September 12, 2014database, help, lighthouse, litehouse, unknownAdult Memories, British Columbia, Canada, History, Keepers, Lighthouses, Old WebsiteretlkprLeave a Comment

As most of you know, and I keep reminding people, this lighthouse website began as a simple list of lighthouse keepers after I retired from 32 years of lighthouse keeping in 2001. I created the first website for historical and genealogical purposes. After a few years, and much help from the public, it developed into this second […]

Machias Seal Island Photos

August 22, 2014border dispute, Canada, lighthouse, litehouse, Machias Island, Maine, New Brunswick, Seal Island, USAAutomation, Canada, Coast Guard, Environment, Fishing, Government, History, Lighthouses, Maine, New Brunswick, Photos, Tourism, Travel, Visitors, WildliferetlkprLeave a Comment

Machias Seal Island is located on the East coast of Canada between New Brunswick and Maine. It is best known for its bird populations – especially puffins – and also for its ongoing border dispute between Canada and the USA. Thi taken s morning I was notified of a lovely photo album taken this month […]

Mise Tales Forty-Four

July 25, 2014book, cartoon, ebay, for sale, lighthouse, litehouse, Poplar Point, The Lighthouse Keepers, water cycleArt, Australia, Books, Books, Coins, Drawings, Drawings, Environment, History, Hobbies, Jewellery, Jewellery, Jigsaw Puzzles, Jigsaw Puzzles, Lighthouse Models, Lighthouse Models, Lighthouses, Models, Models, Ornaments, Ornaments, Paintings, Paintings, Photographs, Photos, Posters, Souvenirs, Stained Glass, Stained Glass, Stories, Toys, ToysretlkprLeave a Comment

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