Bagging Lighthouses
By Sue Clark on Aug 23, 2008 in The Light Side 
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Sounds like some big game safari. Well, lighthouses are our prey, and the British describe this hunting and shooting (photographing) of our lighthouses just perfectly. They “bag” them, just like a hunter bags the game he shot.And to that end, a delightful little video appeared on the BBC last month, interviewing a top Lighthouse Bagger, Joy Adcock and her fiance. Check it out. You might have to view it with Internet Explorer as your browser, if you don’t already. For some reason, the videos wouldn’t open up for me in Firefox.
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August 27th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
[…] Campbell said that with the recent reinstatement of lights on the Monach Islands, west of North Uist, the next step was for one on St Kilda, according to the story on the BBC News site. Who knows, maybe we’ll be seeing a new lighthouse soon. Perhaps if Princess Anne has her say, the pharologists will have a new lighthouse to bag. […]