Adopt A Lighthouse
By Sue Clark on Jul 24, 2007 in Lighthouses For Sale 
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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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