By Sue Clark on Feb 11, 2008 in Featured | Leave a Comment 
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Lighthouse Inns Around the World
What can be more romantic than a lighthouse on Valentine’s Day? The wild weather of mid-February, with waves crashing on the deserted beach, accomodations ranging from rustic to luxurious, and in most cases, cheaper off season rates. No matter where in the world you live, there is a lighthouse available for you and your honey to escape for a day or two or three. And although it may be too late for this year, you can plan for Valentine’s Day 2009.
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By Sue Clark on Feb 9, 2008 in News | Leave a Comment Print This Post
Other Businesses Hit in Crime Spree
Five Port Macquarie youths have been arrested in connection with the vandalism and grafitti spray painting of Tacking Point Lighthouse. The boys, aged 16 and 17, will be dealt with under the Young Offenders Act. Besides the lighthouse, five cars were vandalized, along with a caravan, a bottle shop and the Emerald Downs Estate office. According to a story in the Port Macquarie News, the youths admitted to the vandalism on January 28 and 29.
By Sue Clark on Feb 7, 2008 in News, Other | Leave a Comment Print This Post
An Odd Combination
What do the Lighthouse of Alexandria and a Muslim Mosque have in common? Nothing, except that’s what the mayor of Cebu, Phillipines, Tomas Osmena, wants as a design for a new lighthouse. His current plans call for a new lighthouse to be built in the center of the South Road Properties. I say current because a couple years ago, he had plans to build a new lighthouse in honor of a murdered official. But apparently it didn’t pan out.
By Sue Clark on Feb 6, 2008 in Featured, Threatened | Leave a Comment Print This Post
Another Lighthouse Threatened
From the pages of The Daily in Australia comes a little story about the Bribie Island Lighthouse (front range), Queensland, being another threatened by erosion. Unusually violent storms, winds, flooding are taking their toll on this and other lighthouses from Canada to the US; to Europe to Australia. According to the story, massive sand losses due to the tides and weather have pushed the ocean’s edge up to the base of the lighthouse. Fears are that Pumicestone Passage will be sealed off with a sandbar. The Australian Environmental Protection Agency claims that because this is a “natural occurrence” it will not step in to help. What?
By Sue Clark on Feb 1, 2008 in Featured | Leave a Comment Print This Post
Five Attractions To Work Together
Five years of lawsuits, political intrigue and fighting over Currituck Beach Lighthouse (North Carolina) has finally ended as Currituck County’s Whalehead Club and the Outer Banks Conservationists join forces with three other groups to form the Corolla Coalition. The two groups, which fought over ownership of the light, have joined with the Outer Banks Center for Wildlife Education, the Corolla historic village and the Corolla Wild Horse Fund to make the sites a unified experience for visitors. “What’s happened has happened,” Currituck County Commissioner Owen Etheridge said. “If we can’t move forward, then we’ll suffer the consequences.” Current plans include creating site maps and improving signage before the tourist season gets into full swing.
By Sue Clark on Jan 28, 2008 in Featured, News | 1 Comment Print This Post
NSW Maritime Issues Alerts
One of the news items that crossed my desk today was the information from BYMnews that the NSW Maritime has issued an alert asking boaters to help in reporting vandalism. Not vandalism to boats, but to historic lighthouses no less, along with other navigational aids (buoys and lighted navigational markers). The article reported that the NSW Maritime has spent nearly $190,000 AUD in the past three years on 153 incidents of vandalism. One of the worst incidents took place at Tacking Point Lighthouse, near Port Macquarie, pictured on the left.
What can be more romantic than a lighthouse on Valentine’s Day? The wild weather of mid-February, with waves crashing on the deserted beach, accomodations ranging from rustic to luxurious, and in most cases, cheaper off season rates. No matter where in the world you live, there is a lighthouse available for you and your honey to escape for a day or two or three. And although it may be too late for this year, you can plan for Valentine’s Day 2009.
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