Maine has the
Portland head, Georgia has
Tybee Island. Guess it does help to be able to drive right up to the thing -- no inconvenient boat trips involved so it's easy to sit and paint regardlessof what the weather does.
What surprised me was how short it looks is for an east coast light that's not perched on the edge of humongous bluff. Maybe it's the paint job with the broad horizontal stripes because the tower is 145 feet tall. The lens is a first order
Fresnel installed in 1867 with a focal plane of 144 feet above sea level.
The massive poured concrete structure behind the book on a stick is part of a series of World War II fortifications/artillery batteries meant to protect the mouth of the Savannah River. They're big, they're ugly, one section that's apparently gone through some interesting rehab for adaptive re-use now houses a local Shriners hall. The batteries kind of kill the ocean view the lighthouse keeper's family would once have enjoyed from their front porch.
Maine has the Portland head, Georgia has Tybee Island. Guess it does help to be able to drive right up to the thing -- no inconvenient boat trips involved so it's easy to sit and paint regardlessof what the weather does.
What surprised me was how short it looks is for an east coast light that's not perched on the edge of humongous bluff. Maybe it's the paint job with the broad horizontal stripes because the tower is 145 feet tall. The lens is a first order Fresnel installed in 1867 with a focal plane of 144 feet above sea level.
