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Adopt A Lighthouse

Cape Bojeador Lighthouse by Anonymous Creative Commons PhotoCorregidor Lighthouse Creative Commons Photo (Anonymous)You’re a small island country, your Coast Guard no longer maintains the automated twenty-one lighthouses scattered around your archipelago, and you don’t want to rely on foreign grants to maintain these historic beacons, so what do you do? Create an Adopt-A-Lighthouse program, where corporate or private individuals enter into an agreement with the Coast Guard for use of the property in exchange for fixing it up. Sounds like a good deal? That’s what the Phillipines government is doing to try to preserve their maritime heritage.

According to a story in the Asian Journal online, the following are the lighthouses in the Phillipines, relics of the past in need of care and restoration:

  • Bagacay Light, Cebu
  • Bagato Light, Sorsogon
  • Batag Light, Northern Samar
  • Bugui Point Light, Masbate
  • Cabra Light, Mindoro Occidental
  • Calabasa Light, Iloilo
  • Canigao Light, Leyte
  • Cape Bojeador Light, Ilocos Norte (pictured above left)
  • Cape Bolinao Light, Pangasinan
  • Corregidor Light, Manila (pictured above right)
  • Cape Engaño Light, Cagayan
  • Melville Light, Palawan
  • Cape Santiago Light, Batangas
  • Capones Light, Zambales
  • Capul Lighthouse, Northern Samar
  • Donsol Light, Sorsogon
  • Jintotolo Light, Masbate
  • Malabrigo Light, Batangas
  • Pasig River Light, Manila
  • San Bernardino Light, Sorsogon
  • Siete Pecados Light, Guimaras

At the Heritage Conservation Society site, there are several pages dedicated to Philippine Lighthouses, with lovely photos of these historic gems.

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