After much renovation, the decommissioned Belle Tout Lighthouse near Beachy Head, UK, is set to open as a hotel. And in honor of that, they are selling a nude calendar of the men that built it…The Belle Tout Builder Boys Charity Calendar 2010. Continue Reading...

In Two Harbors, Minnesota, along the north shore off mighty Lake Superior, stood a 100 foot tall white pine locally known as the Honking Tree. It sat all alone along Highway 61, known as the Two Harbors Expressway, from the time the road was built in the 1960s. Continue Reading...

As most of the world knows, we’ve lost long-time Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy to brain cancer. What few might know is that he was a lighthouse enthusiast. Continue Reading...

The Port of Edmonds Yacht Club, in Washington, has labored long and hard to rebuild their yacht club. The location was chosen, designs were approved, all permits were in place, and ground on this addition to the community was broken late last month. But wait, it’s supposed to be nautical. And look like a lighthouse. Continue Reading...

I’m not a golfer, nor do I like watching it on the tube. But this year’s British Open Championship is held in Scotland, at the Turnberry Lighthouse. Golf was invented in Scotland, you know, and the lighthouse keepers in Scotland passed their free time by swinging the old woods and irons. Many lighthouses in the country have at least a rudimentary golf course, or the remains of one. Continue Reading...

So let’s say that you, along with fourteen others, have paid your money (a year in advance) to a tour organizer for a seven lighthouse dream trip to the Orkney Islands, and are anticipating it with all the enthusiasm of a dedicated pharologist. But then the unthinkable happens, and six months later the organizer backs out. What do you do? Continue Reading...