Lighthouse of the Week, January 7-13, 2018: Kiama Light, New South Wales, Australia

Finding this lighthouse happened because I saw a picture of the coast, and I didn't know where it was, so I did some searching and found out where it was, and it turned out this stretch of coastline in New South Wales, Australia, also had a lighthouse.

And a blowhole.

The lighthouse is the Kiama Light, and here is an entire Web page about it from the Lighthouses of Australia Web site.  It has a map, in case you don't know where halfway between Wollongong and Jervis Bay is.

The Kiama Lighthouse

The basics: 

The light was established in 1887, 10 years after the creation of the Robertson Basin, a manmade harbour to service Kiama's supply of crushed blue metal and paving blocks for the streets of Sydney.

The tower, built on Blowhole Point, is constructed of brick and rendered outside with concrete.

The foundation is concrete, 14 feet in depth and 12 feet in diameter; from the bottom of the foundation to the top of the entrance is 16 feet. The height of the building from the floor to the coping is 36 feet, to the light is 40 feet, and to the top of the weather vane is 50 feet.

The Web site has interior pictures;  below are exterior pictures, including the blowhole.

by Darren Stones