Lighthouse Work

For over a year, our red and white striped lighthouse has been under much needed repairs. Recently the inside was completely sand blasted to remove the flaking old pink paint. It actually looks better left natural now and more of a patina. They also painted all the metal on the spiral staircase.

Outside on the top, the workers sand blasted and chipped the rust off the metal, repairing where necessary, and repainted it. What a job when you think about how high up they were. Then came the replacing of all the glass around the top that houses the Fresnal Lens. That was a huge project and very expensive too. All the repairs are funded though donations. It is a bit hard to see what transpired in the banner I took a photo of,  but if you click on it, it may show up better.

It looks like they are ready to start repainting the outside of the lighthouse now. This also is a gigantic project and should be interesting to watch as it progresses and they climb higher. The scaffolding only reaches so far.

A friend told us the story about how during the last time the lighthouse was painted, they first painted it totally white and he was so shocked and confused when he got close enough in his boat to see it. I bet he was wondering where he made the wrong turn!

As you can see, it's time to get this only remaining kerosene lighthouse back to its former glory. They are on the right track though!