I featured Mukilteo Lighthouse last week in my special with lighthouses and fireworks, and was slightly surprised to discover that I hadn't featured it as a Lighthouse of the Week yet. This week fixes that oversight. This is an easily-visited, off-photographed attraction right off the ferry lines (which you can see in a couple of the selected pictures)
So, if you want to see where it is, click on this link. I've been to Seattle several times, and rode the ferries various places, but I never had occasion to take the short route between Mukilteo and Everett and Whidbey Island.
The Lighthouse Directory can give us the basics, and I'll provide a couple of other links below that, before the pictures.
"1906. Active; focal plane 33 ft (10 m); white flash every 5 s. 30 ft (9 m) octagonal cylindrical wood tower with lantern and gallery, rising from a 1-story wood fog signal building. 4th order Fresnel lens (1927) in use. Fog horn (3 s blast every 30 s on demand). Lighthouse painted white, lantern roof red. Two identical 2-story Victorian frame keeper's houses. The light station is a museum operated by the Mukilteo Historical Society; the 4th order Fresnel lens from the former Desdemona Sands Light is on display. ... Ownership of the station was transferred to the city in 2001 and in 2003 the city also took ownership of the former Mukilteo State Park adjacent to the lighthouse. Substantial restoration work has been done and more is planned."
There's a link in that Lighthouse Directory entry to an article about the lighthouse: Historical Marker Place at Mukilteo Lighthouse (sadly, I think they wanted the word "placed".)
Other links:
Mukilteo Lighthouse (Washington Lighthouses)
Mukilteo Lighthouse (Lighthouse Friends)
City of Mukilteo / Lighthouse Park
So now pictures, and a video (from Lighthouse Buffs). There are so many pictures, and paintings, and artworks, etc. of this one, it's hard to find those without commercial connections and watermarks. There are many good ones. The final picture shows the lighthouse with Comet NEOWISE in the night sky.
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