This week, which ends on Christmas Day, I went to a place that frequently gets a white Christmas -- the Door Peninsula of Wisconsin. The Highway 41 end-to-end Streetview trek didn't divert to the Door Peninsula when it went through Green Bay, but that's the way to get there from Highway 41.
This lighthouse is on Cana Island, and that's pretty much everything that's on Cana Island. Let me revise that -- it's the only thing on Cana Island. Cana Island can at times be called a peninsula, depending on the water level, and it's possible to walk to it over the causeway, which is probably manmade, or at least man-maintained.
Causeway video:
Where is it? Here, near Bailey's Harbor, on the Lake Michigan side of the Door Peninsula.
It has a pretty good history; the Lighthouse Directory entry is excerpted below.
"1870. Active; focal plane 89 ft (27 m); continuous white light. 81 ft (24.5 m) round tower with lantern and gallery, built of brick but encased in steel since 1902, attached to a 1-1/2 story brick keeper's house. The original 3rd order Fresnel lens is still in use. Lighthouse is white; lantern roof is black. The keeper's house is a museum staffed by the Door County Maritime Museum. ... Located on a tiny island connected by a low causeway to the mainland, at the end of Cana Island Road off county route Q about 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Baileys Harbor (watch carefully for small Cana Island signs at intersections)."
I always like it when the Fresnel lens is still working.
Here's a Web page about it: Few People Know There's a Wisconsin Island You Can Walk To
Below are five pictures, one quite wintry and Christmas-y, and a video of the causeway.
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| by Dan Anderson |
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