I discovered a cluster of lighthouses that I'm going to feature in the next weeks. Now, it should not be surprising that the Canadian Maritimes have a lot of lighthouses, but I was still surprised by how many of them were in a relatively small area.
I'm going to start with an "easy" one; not a great deal of history, and also not a lot of pictures of it, either. So, getting right to it, here's where the Southwest Wolf Island Lighthouse is located. You can zoom in to see what the island itself looks like. Switching to the satellite view shows how rocky the island is, and you can also see the lighthouse.
So, the Lighthouse Directory gives us the basics:
"1982 (station established 1871). Active; focal plane 39 m (128 ft); white flash every 10 s. 8 m (28 ft) fiberglass tower with lantern and gallery, painted white; lantern is red.
Located on the southern tip of the island in the Wolf Islands off the mouth of Passamaquoddy Bay. Accessible only by boat; visible distantly from the Grand Manan ferry and from Head Harbour Light on Campobello Island." (Campobello Island was the summer retreat of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.)
Lighthouse Friends has more about it, including some history.
I've provided three pictures of it below, including one with the tail of a whale.
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