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As supervisor of Grand Haven S. pierhead lt,{#41 & others} in early 1960s I walked out the catwalk to take the watch morning after storm and ice coating like #41 but more ice like (#6), Foster J. Trainor who I was releiveing, had to through an axe out that upper window so I could chop the ice off to get the door open so I could get in and he could go home. Ive been a Lighthouse Freak for quite some time now.6 years ago my best friend and I, on our motorcycles, toured all 5 lakes and visited some 75 lighthouses on the tour which he had laid out, motel reservations and all, he is a wiz (wizard) on the computer. BEAUTIFUL!!! I guess its reopened but just a few docks and moorings. It is Feb. 8, 1978. Great results. Amazing photos!!! Yes, you are rightLake Superior is the giant of the great lakes! Italy, `Mangiabarche`, Storm. Hi, Back in 1952 I was in the U.S. Coast Guard,stationed at a Light House on Lake Michigan, it was called Indiana Harbor Light Station. The EYC burned down a couple of years back. ", RNLI Kinsale shared the clip along with a warning message: "Beautiful but treacherous. I grew up in East Detroit (9 mile off Gratiot). The Mayo woman appeared on the 2018 series of the show and died earlier this week. Nevertheless, the best years of my life actually wrote a book about it As Darker Grows the Night. Thank you for giving your time and talent. Ed. . Good Luck, And how did one get out with the extreme ice surrounding itdid they wait for spring? me of the Atlantic Ocean storms that rocked my Station. Bunny Walters. ever been toppled by ice storm or waves? lol will stay in the suburbs. The storms come up very fast. fantastic photo. If anyone is interested enough, I wrote a book about our lighthouse days As Darker Grows the Night, mother nature awsome and beautiful thanks for the treat god bless. Do you have access to any hurricane photos of Fall River/Westport, Ma. The underwater panorama was breathtaking with the colors of the reef life. The beautiful ferocity and creative destruction of Mother Nature is a stark reminder of Gods control over man. Great pictures! Fantastic photos. Kerala, India, Gathering storm on beach and lighthouse on sunset, Storm Clouds Over Lighthouse with Waves Crashing. Only God could do that! No wonder to me why the Fitz went down that night, surprized that there werent more lives lost on that day. AND AT POINT BETSIE. They really are something! I was absolutely mesmerized! He fought in the Korean, Vietnam, and Gulf wars. on ne peut pas oubli quant on la vue. The pictures are amazing and beautiful. The video definitely reminds me also of the song by Ronnie Hinson The Lighthouse & what it stands for in the Christian world. Unfortunately no pictures. Being from Maine we love these type of breath taken oictures. Their bodies washed up on Patos, as well as other islands in the Straits of Juan de Fuca; the lighthouse keepers and their families found the remains and buried them. My husbands 65 foot fishing boat froze up (just like the icicles in the picture) On the West side of the Queen Charlotte Islands in the 1980s It was very scary. well done. Do people still live in light houses? Our family would get snowed in so often, and without electricity and frozen pipes. Never had the experience of visiting the inside of one but plan to search which ones are available to visit inside. No rain, ocean was like glass against the North Jetty. ), Little Sable Point Lighthouse or the Ludington Pier Lighthouse. We had a doorbell and the winds would blast off a noise that sounded like a ghost howling. On a broader note, sometimes lighthouses are, in my opinion as a designer, some of the most beautiful structures ever built by people. The best way to stay updated is by liking our Facebook page we post even more often there. cheers Ron. Now you know that God is the strongest in the World, He can do anything! Beautiful day. Our family cottage of 50 years was located South of Grand Haven on Lake MI. Our resort was one of the most beautiful in Northern Michigan. It was known as Manistee Moorings at the time. It was this little, tiny plane. I lived near Lake Michigan for 16 years and never once was there to capture the beauty of the light houses and piers during the winter season. The stonework was incredible for its smooth, continually curved face and for the interlocking joinery of every one of its individual blocks, seeming to defy what seemed possible for stone to be! E arly in the 1870s, a lighthouse was under construction on the Torran Rocks, deadly hazards to shipping off the west coast of Scotland. Brrrr. Did you ever find photos of your light house? These pics show the beauty of this magnificent structure, and Gods storms testing its endurance. All I can say is that it must have been a long time agoor you were nutsor really enjoyed the adventure! Who is the lumphead who inserted the soundtrack when all you want to hear is the crashing surf?? This is the first time I have seen 132 foot waves in action. In Jan 1, 2001 @ 1:00 my wife and I were married at the Yaquina Bay Lighthouse in Newport,Oregon. The first keeper in America, George Worthylake, met an untimely death: He drowned, along with his wife and daughter . Truly amazing of Mother Natures awesome power & beautyCongrats to the brave people who shot these photos. No mention of Poseidon the god of the sea! I cant imagine what it must be like to live in a lighthouse when such storms were happening. Michigan also has more lightouses than Maine (almost twice as many)! Great job and beauty at her best. I have deliberately not put music to this to try and give you the feel of what it was like, hope you enjoy it. Ive always romanticized lighthouses. Thank you very much, these pictures make me want to go back to sea. Believe its still in print. They all look like theyve been there a long time marvelous engineeringand beautiful too! Great pictures. It fit together literally like a jigsaw puzzle that has resisted the shear and torque of waves shown towering twice the lights height. Waves on Lake Michigan were said to be over 20 feet high, which pounded the lighthouse and covered it in ice feet thick in places. We spent most of the day out there and usually had sunburned noses! I made many trips with my Dad on the Ann Arbor Car Ferries out of Frankfort and the C & O from Ludington. Howver, Ive been out fishing in Saginaw Bay when a surprise storm comes up and feared that I may not make it back in because of the size of the waves. We were in Grand Haven this year. You are a special breed of people with a courage surpassing most people living. Dont think about itdo it! Makes a person wonder if any of these lighthouses ever get demolished during these terrific storms.they would have to be built extremely well with a tremendous foundation and structure. I dont think they are manned any more, but in the past they certainly were. The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? Kevin Cole, chief photographer at The Boston Herald American, is stuck in Plymouth, Mass. Cap'n Turbot has accidentally locked himself inside the lighthouse, so it is up to the pups to rescue a rowboat drifting out to sea before the dance game starts. Boston lighthouse, was the first and last manned lighthouse in the new world, while it still stands it is unmanned now, Shame. She had an apartment over the Snug Harbor and her aunt and uncle had a restaurant on the main street. Amazing what kind of weather lighthouses have to endure. Awesome photos! My first 21 years were in Michigan,4 years in the UP.50 years later the lakes are still a vivid memory.Seen them all.Best memory was crossing Lake Michigan on a train ferry on a November night.Im notb sure what was the loudest the lake or the rail cars below. March 15th [Dads Birthday] 10:25 p.m. My husband and I are lighthouse hunters and have seen most of the US lighthouses in the pictures especially the MI ones. The tower is sort of square instead of round like most lighthouses. I give a lot of credit to those who put up with the weather conditions to get them. It was on Whitefish Bay in Lake Superior up by Paradise in the UP. Outstanding photos. Ive forwarded this on to my largest list. Greatest pictures I have ever seen. A stark example of the madness of weather that surrounds the Great Lakes region. John Constable (June 11, 1776 - March 31, 1837) was a British Romantic artist, born in Suffolk.. . I know some are privately owned, but what about the ones that arent. [] For some great still photos of lighthouses under assault, check this out. We live on Saginaw Bay and enjoy the lake and the waves. Sheila Im a native Texan, now living in Southern California. I have/had one picture of a wave breaking over the light. Wollongong Breakwater Lighthouse during a heavy storm Wollongong Harbour, NSW, Australia - June 4: Wave breaking in a circular way behind the Breakwater Lighthouse of Wollongong during a storm, 16:9 aspect ratio lighthouse in storm stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images. we are a non profit group of volunteers who are raising money and awarness to help restore the Ashtabula lighthouse and open it as a museum. It will soon pass away until you see something that triggers that artist in you again. I cant imagine what it sounded like in the lighthouse. "We were watching WBZ and we heard about how big this thing was going to get and I called around to a bunch of friends and everybody said no except two other knuckleheads. Many thanks, vel, Hey, I live in Marquette, MI near Lake Superior and have seen monster storms here at the lighthouse and surrounds. We had to heat snow to wash our hair. 1 target. He was able to re-enter the lighthouse unharmed. This so different and great that I am glad that I was chosen to see all of it. You may join us at SPLKA.org. Wow! Want me to show you the cyber door? We really enjoy leaving a warm, safe, base and having the wonderful excitement of spending hours in small boats in that weather looking for your body in the slim hope that we will find and recover you while you are still breathing. And some are amazingly brave and talented photographers who capture that perfect split second to share with us. There is so much beauty in this world, if we could only see it all!! They told us by radio there was nothing they could do to help us that we were on our own. I even took my GPS from the jeep to the end of the Muskegon breakwall and marked that spot. Amazing and Beautifulrough storms , yet the Lighthouses stand strong. What am awesome illustration of who are Mightey God is! Man, we live on this one place Earth its beautiful. the courage to keep these houses and the courage to record their courage. Lake Superior, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan gets waves as large as on the ocean. I always thought the lighthouses were sort of romantic and thought it would be cool to be a keeper and live in one. It would Cost too much to rebuild that great old structure. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Now that is a very profound statement! You have done a breath taking job here. Awsome! The photographer described, In this picture is the outer and inner light. I think you meant to type 100 miles wide, correct? They are awesome. and He calms His child. Its not called the death zone for nothing. There are sometimes that I am glad I am not a Lighthouse Keeper! The nearest picture with any wave action is the one in the book of Point Betsy. Former priest avoids jail term after he lost control of car and struck four people outside a church, killing one, The court heard that the incident lasted about two minutes with the car speeding through the crowd, hitting off vehicles and ploughing into people before it ultimately crashed into bollards with three people pinned under the vehicle, RTE Operation Transformation leader Mary Diamond dies aged 57 as tributes paid to 'absolute gem'. He now lives comfortably on a ranch in Texas but I know he sometimes misses his days at sea. How amazingI would really love to communicate with you. Super photos of the Lights. Hats off to the old lighthousekeepers and their families because they endured some WILD weather!! I kept telling myself; dont be afraid this tower has been here since 1867. But the noise and spray most certainly did! Lighthouse keeper at New Dungeness Lightstation, Sequim, WA. You should see the Ice Burgs along the shore in winter, we use to play on them, If our Mother knew, we would have been grounded for the winter. As much as we always complain about MI winter, I wouldnt live anywhere else in the world! You may join us at SPLKA.org. Amazing photos and video. Were we nuts to put up with that for $7000 a year ? PERRY BUCKLEY: Never been there in a bad storm, and thats ok with me, but moray eels hanging from the railing, thats something to talk about!! However, July, I grew up seeing pictures of the moray eels that came in with the freighters, and I have to say theyre pretty scary to look at. Yet some people are held spellbound by natures fury. We have been Lighthouse volunteers for 11 years and have truly enjoyed every minute of our time serving. Thank you! Photo #12 by Jim Sorbie, Gale force winds throughout the day churned up Lake Michigan and created high waves along the South Haven, Michigan shore. A Portuguese fisherman's stew, Waller said. Make sense? I have that book. and so i say,you can fool some of the people SOME of the time,BUT YOU CANT FOOL ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME.nice try though. The lighthouse tower is 35 feet tall (from the pier) another six feet to the water making that splash around 50 feet tall. To live in a lighthouse would be a very couragous life at times, and a very inspirational life as well. Photo #4 by Juan Jos Aza, Monster waves: Rough weather for lighthouse keepers. The images remind me of the famed lighthouse Eddystone off the English coastline. I love lighthouses. So sad! Inquire Within. Brrr! Everyone walks the quarter mile out to the lighthouse if only to get some exercise or really to be up close to it. I should have sent my reply to Michael Heffernan But what do you expect from a BM3. (*It was lumpy enough then.). I was a crewman on USCG Light Station Ambrose during 1984/85. The photographers and their photos are magnificient! This example was shaped like a smooth tapered round cone that diminished in diameter in concave curves. (Second Order Fresnel Lens) I once dropped the $1500 viewfinder from my Bronica GS-1 to the bottom of Lake Michigan off the South end of South Fox island during a very turbulent flight in November a couple of years ago. i had no idea some of the great lakes had such tremendous storms october 2 2011. I get inspired just in the summer months around the great lakes and especially Lk.Superior! Too bad I didnt take pictures. 'Eddystone Lighthouse, During a Storm' is an iconic work from our collections and a visitor . I wouldnt mind traveling and seeing other places, but MI is my home forever! The history of these car/train ferries is quite interesting and well worthwhile to research unto themselves. After watching this, I will stop complaining about our 42 degrees this sunny January morning on Amelia Island, Florida. Gusts of over 50 miles per hour created 16 to 20 foot waves in open water. Unfortunately, from the air and in my Cessna 172 airplane I dont have a very good opportunity to take pictures of lighthouses with thunderous waves. Photo #42 by Tom Gill, THE POWER OF THE STORM! We took off. Photo #23 by Tom Gill, Hide and Seek Todays puzzle try to find the pier hidden in this picture. MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - American Humane, known as the 'Red Cross for animals, has boots on the ground in Tennessee helping the Tipton County Animal Shelter after two tornadoes hit the area on March 31st. I was stationed on Five Fathom L/V and TAD Hereford Inlet LBS in 1960. "Wonderfully unique too, to see the lighthouse from a different perspective!". Saw the biggest storm I have ever seen there. The lighthouse is 114 feet high, which means that foam is spraying 100 feet into the air, propelled upward by a raging sea that sinks ships and floods towns up and down the coast. The snow was over the house. The photo of the RI YACHT CLUB is really the EDGEWOOD YACHT CLUB. Absecon light, named for the island upon \which it and Atlantic City NJ is located, is 167 feet tall with 2228 steps leading to the lantern. Most people dont know that Michigan has more shore line than California, but what I like is that nothing in those Great Lakes oceans want to eat me! Amaizing, especially the Mi lighthouses, somthered with ice. Nor could most, imagine to anger of the dust storms we incounter in the west. For those of you that do not know what a troll or a yooper isin Michigana troll lives under the bridge (meaning the Macinaw bridge that links the lower with the upper part of Michigan). This an awesome series of how wild & dangerous the Great Lakes can get. I always end up drawing or painting something of nature and the lighthouses and water. Im now one of the Assistant Keepers At Boston Lighthouse ( Second Order Fresnel lens ). One of the most spectacular videos I have ever seen. NOT NO MORE! Before joining the NZ Lighthouse Service I had been a merchant seaman, and so in one way or another I have had a long association with the sea and its sometimes ferocity! Unbelievable !! and that video was so awesome. When I first became aware of the lighthouse, it was periodically issuing a very deep BEE-OOPS when conditions were foggy or troublesome. When I was 13 (43 years ago)I stood at the base of the 35 South Haven light house as waves from the N.W. Olivia Kelleher. Growing up in Soo, Mi and St. Clair Mi. No they should not be criticized. Wonderful pictures from some very brave photographers! Marlene. But what happened to the lighthouse keeper?! BOSTON (CBS) -- The blizzard had most people hunkering down and staying inside Saturday. we and all do not know of, in his own time, and in his own way. These pictures are amazing to look at. [] Hilfe fr Schiffe. GO BLUE ! It is beautiful though. These images are superlative in showing the epitome of our dynamic relationship with beauty, terror and strength that are the calm within the storm. Minots Ledge Light rises dramatically from a tiny outcropping of ledge one mile off the coast of Cohasset and Scituate, Mass.Its beacon flashes in a 1-4-3 cycle, the same number of letters in 'I love you.' Hence the nickname 'Lover's Light.' Author Edward Rowe Snow called it "the most dangerous beacon in America." On April 17, 1851, a hurricane swept the original Minots Ledge . I well remember my salary as an ensign and a recent graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy (1966) at $127/month. Wave heights were reported to be as high as 20 feet in Boston Harbor Saturday afternoon. I always think of lighthouses as being very romantic. I live on the West Coast, with many lighthouses and some storms, but, Ive never seen anything like this (AMAZING PHOTOS.). We came out yesterday, dead calm, and got a bunch of firewood and food. The quality, courage and tenacity of the photographers is incredible. A good way to ride, and enjoy a beautiful rout. Heres mine: While crossing Lake Michigan on the Badger, the ferry between Ludington, MI, and Manitowoc, WI, I (many years ago, and on an ordinary day with ordinary waves) remarked to my dad, Theres a lot of water out here!, to which he replied, Yup, and thats just the top of it! And, needless to say, what courageous photographers. These are fantastic pictures, have you made this into a calendar? I never even thought about extreme weather and the problems caused. those were really awesome pictures. I always thought Lake Superior was the monster lake. Then we would dive into AuTrain River which seemed like lukewarm water after Lake Supe. Fred/Diane. Jukin Media. We are transplanted trolls but lived near the Little Point Sauble lighthouse growing up. 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I was stationed on Sombrero Key Light house in 195052, which is situated about eight miles off shore from Marathon, Florida. I was stationed at Manistee Coast Guard Station in 1963, 1964, & 1965. Grew up in Grand Haven, Michigan and loved the harbor then. You have to praise the photographers for their courage to face mother nature at her worst to record her at her worst. I'm further out than I wanted to be and well past my comfort zone. Ive not yet visited Michigan and had the opportunity to photograph any of the lighthouses there, but it is something Im planning to do so I can post photos of the lighthouses there to my blog. (In fairness, the absence of a light wasnt why the ship went down, but it certainly would have given the men hope to be able to see it.). We were too busy trying to survive to take pictures, the waves broke down the sea door and we were being flooded. Although many sites do it, we dont want to snag and steal copyright photos without permission. Interesting articles, how-to's, famous quotes, cool photos, videos, and stuff to buy. Having produced the book, Michigan lighthouses, An Aerial Photographic Perspective, (www.michiganlighthouse.com), I have a keen appreciation of the work involved. WOW! Then, Id like to hurry back to the warmth of Florida where the storms produce lots of wind and water but no ice. Now the rest of my story. No wonder why they are referred to as The Great Lakes, especially Superior. have seen now, wonderfull pictures of lighthouses. Sept. 11th [], Wonder-full! Whiteford Cast-Iron Lighthouse Storm Rage by Matthew Jones. What respect we must have for the water, the fierceness of storms, and what delight we can take in the One who created it all. The lake storms could be horrendous. In this collection of fantastic photos, its nature vs man-made lighthouses and landmarks. Mother Nature is one strong lady!!! Ill see if I still have it. My Dad was stationed in Oswego from 1948-1953. Ah, but life on the lakes! When I saw #21, I thought that it looked like a painting. What a wonderful collection. Man those were the good old days. Fantastic. It was for the ore freighters that were bringing ore to the largest steel mill in America. We do have storms in Holland, but we do not have clives as breakers. I have lots of pictures and stories about our time stationed there. love the video, but the music detracts from it. We have SOOOO many and they are all historical. I have been in several storms on our sailboat that I thought at the time we wouldnt make it back to shore. The lighthouse in the photo is 76 ft tall. The last operational twin lighthouses on the east coast. And just for the record, you couldnt pay me enough to be a lighthouse keeper. Check out our web site and come visit us if you are in the area in August. When Irene was coming up the coast, I went out and did some photographs and a couple of videos at two of the lighthouses near me here in Maine. Hope things are ok with you.". The Power of God thru Mother Nature is evident for all to see and believe! Lighthouse Keeper Wanted. My family and I spent a few days staying at the Selkirk Lighthouse in Pulaski New York on Lake Ontario. While these waves may be big, they are in no way close to the ferocious waves attacking lighthouses during powerful storms. Im from San Diego and we have a lighthouse here at Point Loma, near Mission Bay. These are tremendous! Location unknown. Lighthouses symbolize constancy and its no coincidence that they are often identified with the guiding light that has been the compass of our spirituality. Reply, Lighthouse keeper at New Dungeness Lightstation, Sequim, WA: Photo #7 by Tom Gill, The Oswego Lighthouse is awash with waves during a November 2003 storm with 80 mph winds. Beautiful but pounding at the coastline and the lighthouse. I grew up in Grand Haven where many of these photos were taken come visit us it is great, oh they are very magnificent,,but i think i stay on dry land,,lol. After seeing these pictures I have my doubts! went over the top of it. 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