If you look in the Lighthouse Directory, in the section on the Philippines, there are a lot of sections for all the different provinces and islands of the country. I've featured a couple, but there are a lot more, so I'll have a few more this year.
Starting with this one, which is in the Batanes province. That's a small group of islands, well north of all the other islands, about halfway between the Philippines and Taiwan.
To find the location, just click here. But don't trust the map, look at the satellite image instead. You'll see why.
Speaking of the Lighthouse Directory, it tells us this about the Sabtang Lighthouse (also called the Sabtang North Lighthouse, as it says in the title.
"2006. Active (?); focal plane unknown; two red flashes every 10 s. Approx. 18 m (56 ft) round rubblestone tower with lantern and gallery. The tower is unpainted; the watch room and trim are painted white and the lantern red. ... An adjoining rubblestone cottage had not been completed as of spring 2007; evidently the funds to complete the cottage ran out. A 2011 photo shows the cottage finally roofed .The light was not accepted by PCG [Philippines Coast Guard] until December 2022."
The pictures are below. It does look different.
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