Day tripping or during a vacation...

Yes, several, but the ones I liked the best were in Oregon. Such views!!!

In Astoria, Oregon, I saw the Lightship Columbia at the maritime museum. The lightship used to be stationed at the mouth of the Columbia River, which was one of the most treacherous channels in the U.S. The lightship just bounced around out there alerting ships to the Columbia River Bar. I can't imagine what a horrible duty that must have been. Up, down, side-to-side, constantly. I'm seasick just thinking about it.
 
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Yes, in Washington and Oregon. Some were closed and not operating, but still open to the public. A few others were operational.
 
My family had a long term lease on one in P.E.I. (Canada), right on the beach. It was still an operating lighthouse although all electric by then. We used it in summers as a vacation cottage. It was a fantasic spot. Beach right out front and around the corner. Clams at low tide on the sandbar and in the cove around the corner.

It was very basic living in cramped quarters for sure but way fun when we were kids. We used to take the steep stairs from the bedroom on the sceond floor up to the catwalk around the top of the light. You had to scrunch down and push yourself through a small opening once you opened the wood door to get out onto the catwalk. We'd sit there for hours watching the fishing boats coming and going through the channel and at the people swimming at the beach across the bay. Great times! I still have friends in the area that I keep in touch with.

Here's a pic: (New London Lighthouse).
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I have visited several Lighthouses over the previous 5 years
Bunbury Lighthouse.
Moved from previous location in 1971
25m metres tall, the light can be seen from 27km out to sea.


Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse
Built in 1896. On the most Southern Westerly tip of Australia, where the Indian and Southern Oceans meet.


Fremantle Lighthouse
Began shining in 1906
 
jujube said:
I've never understood how you can move a lighthouse, but they do it somehow. I'd like to see that process. I've always been fascinated by big moving projects.
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I saw a PBS documentary on moving a lighthouse a few years ago. It was a fascinating process.
I love lighthouses and their history.
The last ones we visited were in Florida. The Pensacola lighthouse was a very interesting visit. It was a beautiful sunny day when we visited it. The Navy pilots were flying out of the base on one side, and the Coast Guard was directing exercises with their rescue swimmers on the other side. The view was magnificent.
The Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse was our last visit. Really nice and well kept grounds. It is the tallest lighthouse in Florida. It gives you splendid views of the Atlantic Ocean and the Halifax River.
 
jujube said:
I've never understood how you can move a lighthouse, but they do it somehow. I'd like to see that process. I've always been fascinated by big moving projects.
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Moving Sankaty Lighthouse in Sconset on Nantucket Island​


Lighthouse Rescue Timelapse​


Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Move​


Why Denmark moved a whole Lighthouse​

 
The old Pt Loma Lighthouse. Visited several times when I was a youngster. The newer one is on the Coast Guard reservation. Look at from a distance.
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I have been to the Point Bolivar lighthouse a time or two. lighthouse.jpglighthouse1.jpgThe Bolivar Lighthouse was built by the federal government in 1852 and was later dismantled by Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. It was rebuilt in 1872 .
 
This lighthouse is right around the corner from our timeshare resort in Atlantic City (even though it says Absecon). As many times as I've passed it, I've never had the desire to visit it and climb those 228 steps. It is touted as the tallest lighthouse in N.J. and one of the oldest in the country.

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We climbed Hatteras before they moved it. That is a long way up. The view from the top is very memorable.
I remember Point Loma from when I was in the Navy in the 1950s
St Augustine is worth a visit.
 

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