1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,920 Are you ready? 2 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:02,000 I'm ready. We're on. 3 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,500 Okay, because you have to press the button at an appropriate time. 4 00:00:04,500 --> 00:00:06,600 Not too fast. Not too late. 5 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:07,800 Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. 6 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:09,640 Hi everyone. I'm Emily. 7 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:10,540 And I'm Vince. 8 00:00:10,540 --> 00:00:14,100 And this is the Lighthouse Lowdown. 9 00:00:15,100 --> 00:00:22,400 [♪ music and water running on the water 10 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:23,400 Yeah, I was watching you like a hawk. 11 00:00:24,300 --> 00:00:27,000 I don't mean to be overbearing, but sometimes I just kind of am. 12 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:28,300 This coffee is delicious. 13 00:00:28,300 --> 00:00:32,000 Vince's first time having coffee in exactly one month. 14 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:33,000 Mm-hmm. 15 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,300 Gave it up for sober October. 16 00:00:35,300 --> 00:00:37,000 Which this year was sober September. 17 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:37,800 Oh yeah, that's right. 18 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:38,800 So we can drink in October. 19 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:41,100 [♪ laughs at the end of the video 20 00:00:41,100 --> 00:00:44,100 Welcome back to the most explicit Lighthouse podcast on the internet. 21 00:00:44,100 --> 00:00:45,800 We can't wait to get wasted. 22 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:47,100 [♪ laughs at the end of the video 23 00:00:47,100 --> 00:00:48,300 But today is just coffee. 24 00:00:48,300 --> 00:00:49,000 That's right. 25 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,500 It's actually my first hot coffee of like the year. 26 00:00:51,500 --> 00:00:56,600 Now that it's hit 80 degrees outside, it's officially cold according to some people. 27 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:58,600 To be fair, yeah, I don't... 28 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:03,100 Today was giving off like cool weather vibes even though it wasn't cold out. 29 00:01:03,100 --> 00:01:03,900 Spooky season. 30 00:01:03,900 --> 00:01:05,900 Yeah, like I was just feeling it. 31 00:01:05,900 --> 00:01:08,900 And tomorrow it's supposed to get cold. 32 00:01:08,900 --> 00:01:11,100 And the next day, like 60 something. 33 00:01:11,100 --> 00:01:12,100 Very nice. 34 00:01:12,100 --> 00:01:13,100 For a high, so. 35 00:01:13,100 --> 00:01:13,900 Very nice. 36 00:01:13,900 --> 00:01:16,600 Anyway, so we have hot coffees in the studio today. 37 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:19,600 I am covering another Maine lighthouse. 38 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:20,800 I don't know what happened. 39 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:21,600 It's just kind of... 40 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:22,600 Maine the State, okay. 41 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:24,600 Yeah, yeah, another Maine the State. 42 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:26,400 Maine with an E lighthouse. 43 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:28,400 I have a history buoy. 44 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,900 It's pretty self-explanatory, but I thought... 45 00:01:31,900 --> 00:01:34,900 I thought it was interesting, so I'll just cover it. 46 00:01:34,900 --> 00:01:36,400 Are you ready to go? 47 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:37,900 Let's go, history buoy. 48 00:01:37,900 --> 00:01:42,900 Today, I'm gonna do the selecting the height of a lighthouse. 49 00:01:42,900 --> 00:01:43,900 Selecting it? 50 00:01:43,900 --> 00:01:47,900 Yeah, like how they decide how tall the lighthouse is gonna be. 51 00:01:47,900 --> 00:01:50,900 Yeah, so when you break it down, it's like duh. 52 00:01:50,900 --> 00:01:53,900 But I don't know, I never give it much thought. 53 00:01:53,900 --> 00:01:54,900 Break it down for us. 54 00:01:54,900 --> 00:02:02,900 And this is why we don't have cameras in the studio. 55 00:02:02,900 --> 00:02:07,900 Emily started beatboxing and dancing at the same time. 56 00:02:07,900 --> 00:02:08,900 It's awful. 57 00:02:08,900 --> 00:02:09,900 It's a coffee. 58 00:02:09,900 --> 00:02:17,200 Okay, everything you do, selecting the lighthouse characteristics is about how visible the light 59 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:18,900 beam is gonna be. 60 00:02:18,900 --> 00:02:25,900 Usually you want it to coincide with like maritime traffic and it depends on how far 61 00:02:25,900 --> 00:02:30,900 away are most ships going to be from the shore and like where are they gonna be when they 62 00:02:30,900 --> 00:02:33,900 start coming in or how far do you want them to stay away from it. 63 00:02:33,900 --> 00:02:38,900 So you also have to keep in consideration how tall is the land that the lighthouse is 64 00:02:38,900 --> 00:02:40,900 gonna be built on. 65 00:02:40,900 --> 00:02:42,900 And also things like weather in the region. 66 00:02:42,900 --> 00:02:44,900 Like is it usually super foggy? 67 00:02:44,900 --> 00:02:45,900 Is the visibility low? 68 00:02:45,900 --> 00:02:46,900 Right. 69 00:02:46,900 --> 00:02:49,900 So visibility is low regardless of fog. 70 00:02:49,900 --> 00:02:51,900 It's like if it's just is it misty? 71 00:02:51,900 --> 00:02:56,900 Like it wouldn't be a reason to have a foghorn running, but it may be a reason for you to 72 00:02:56,900 --> 00:02:59,900 need to adjust the lighthouse. 73 00:02:59,900 --> 00:03:00,900 Sure. 74 00:03:00,900 --> 00:03:06,900 So most lighthouses are between 33 and 208 feet tall. 75 00:03:06,900 --> 00:03:08,900 There are variations on each side. 76 00:03:08,900 --> 00:03:10,900 I'm gonna show you one of them. 77 00:03:10,900 --> 00:03:11,900 So many questions. 78 00:03:11,900 --> 00:03:12,900 Oh, go ahead. 79 00:03:12,900 --> 00:03:15,900 What do you mean between 33 and 208 feet tall? 80 00:03:15,900 --> 00:03:16,900 That's very specific. 81 00:03:16,900 --> 00:03:17,900 I know. 82 00:03:17,900 --> 00:03:20,900 It's just second and third like quartile. 83 00:03:20,900 --> 00:03:21,900 What's happening? 84 00:03:21,900 --> 00:03:24,900 I just that most lighthouses fall within that range. 85 00:03:24,900 --> 00:03:29,900 Like 208 being like where it starts to taper off and there's only like one or two lighthouses 86 00:03:29,900 --> 00:03:30,900 above that. 87 00:03:30,900 --> 00:03:33,900 So the mass of them, not like some of them, like a bell curve. 88 00:03:33,900 --> 00:03:34,900 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 89 00:03:34,900 --> 00:03:36,900 Like the large large percentage. 90 00:03:36,900 --> 00:03:38,900 The bell part. 91 00:03:38,900 --> 00:03:43,900 I know what you're talking about, but I don't I remember that we used to have to do math 92 00:03:43,900 --> 00:03:46,900 problems about that, like probability and stuff. 93 00:03:46,900 --> 00:03:47,900 Distribution. 94 00:03:47,900 --> 00:03:48,900 I hated that. 95 00:03:48,900 --> 00:03:52,900 Well, also, I know what you're talking about when it comes to the weather conditions, 96 00:03:52,900 --> 00:03:56,900 because obviously lighthouses usually are on the coastline. 97 00:03:56,900 --> 00:03:57,900 Yeah. 98 00:03:57,900 --> 00:03:59,900 Not always, as you'll see in an upcoming episode. 99 00:03:59,900 --> 00:04:01,900 Oh, someday. 100 00:04:01,900 --> 00:04:02,900 Exciting. 101 00:04:02,900 --> 00:04:04,900 Yeah, we keep pushing back your episodes. 102 00:04:04,900 --> 00:04:05,900 Yeah, that's all right. 103 00:04:05,900 --> 00:04:09,900 But, you know, there's some that we've seen that it makes most sense to have them low 104 00:04:09,900 --> 00:04:12,900 because it's actually below clouds or below cover. 105 00:04:12,900 --> 00:04:13,900 Yeah, exactly. 106 00:04:13,900 --> 00:04:14,900 And some are really tall. 107 00:04:14,900 --> 00:04:16,900 So tell us more about it. 108 00:04:16,900 --> 00:04:17,900 Thank you. 109 00:04:17,900 --> 00:04:21,900 The main thing that's important when they're selecting it is the luminous range of the 110 00:04:21,900 --> 00:04:24,900 lighthouse, which sometimes is in question because it definitely depends on if you're 111 00:04:24,900 --> 00:04:29,900 going to have a Fresnel lens and what order it's going to be in, like what kind of light 112 00:04:29,900 --> 00:04:34,900 are you going to have inside the Fresnel lens, which, of course, changed over time and more 113 00:04:34,900 --> 00:04:36,900 powerful is usually better. 114 00:04:36,900 --> 00:04:41,900 But the luminous range is an accurate, it's an equation and it's an accurate way to tell 115 00:04:41,900 --> 00:04:46,900 how far a beam is visible to sailors or anyone, you know, sailing. 116 00:04:46,900 --> 00:04:51,900 And it takes into account the visibility of the atmosphere where the lighthouse is built, 117 00:04:51,900 --> 00:04:55,900 which is what I was talking about, is that it's not always fog. 118 00:04:55,900 --> 00:04:57,900 Yeah, exactly. 119 00:04:57,900 --> 00:04:59,900 Could be smoke from a fire. 120 00:04:59,900 --> 00:05:02,900 Or there could be like light pollution or something else going on. 121 00:05:02,900 --> 00:05:07,900 And also takes into account the threshold of the human eye to perceive the light beam, 122 00:05:07,900 --> 00:05:09,900 which is very interesting. 123 00:05:09,900 --> 00:05:15,900 It's like has a lot to do with like the average human eye being able to pick up colors 124 00:05:15,900 --> 00:05:20,900 and the range of light and also, you know, lighthouse has a main light beam and then 125 00:05:20,900 --> 00:05:25,900 all around that the light tapers off, you know, it's like you could still see that 126 00:05:25,900 --> 00:05:30,900 there's a light beam, even if you're not standing directly in front of where the light 127 00:05:30,900 --> 00:05:31,900 is coming from. 128 00:05:31,900 --> 00:05:34,900 So it takes all of that into account. 129 00:05:34,900 --> 00:05:38,900 Obviously, the lighthouse beam needs to be seen as far out to see as necessary, which 130 00:05:38,900 --> 00:05:40,900 changes depending on where you are. 131 00:05:40,900 --> 00:05:45,900 Like if you're on a lake, you're going to be worried about people being closer than 132 00:05:45,900 --> 00:05:46,900 like out to sea. 133 00:05:46,900 --> 00:05:50,900 You're going to worry about them being like more than a mile out from shore. 134 00:05:50,900 --> 00:05:55,900 So you're not going to worry about having the light beam visible like a mile out. 135 00:05:55,900 --> 00:05:59,900 You're going to worry about it being like 10 miles out because people are coming in 136 00:05:59,900 --> 00:06:01,900 from, you know, any direction. 137 00:06:01,900 --> 00:06:06,900 And like you were saying, there are limitations considering if the lighthouse is too tall, 138 00:06:06,900 --> 00:06:09,900 a local ship may not see the beacon at all. 139 00:06:09,900 --> 00:06:14,900 It's like if you're on a if the lighthouse is like on a cliff and then the lighthouse 140 00:06:14,900 --> 00:06:19,900 is super tall on top of that, you sailor may be going by just completely underneath 141 00:06:19,900 --> 00:06:20,900 the beam of the lighthouse. 142 00:06:20,900 --> 00:06:22,900 They would never even know that it was there. 143 00:06:22,900 --> 00:06:23,900 Yeah. 144 00:06:23,900 --> 00:06:27,900 So it just totally depends on where traffic is and what the land looks like. 145 00:06:27,900 --> 00:06:29,900 So if you're on a cliff, you're going to have a lighthouse that's shorter. 146 00:06:29,900 --> 00:06:31,900 Usually, I'm sure there's outliers. 147 00:06:31,900 --> 00:06:33,900 And if I looked it up, I would have, 148 00:06:33,900 --> 00:06:39,900 which is funny because if you look at like lighthouse culture online, 149 00:06:39,900 --> 00:06:44,900 like art, photos, we all like not all of us, but a lot of us like the taller ones. 150 00:06:44,900 --> 00:06:49,900 The biggest, you know, all the time we show those North Carolina lighthouses that are really tall. 151 00:06:49,900 --> 00:06:50,900 Yeah. 152 00:06:50,900 --> 00:06:52,900 But it's not average. 153 00:06:52,900 --> 00:06:54,900 And here's here's an example. 154 00:06:54,900 --> 00:07:00,900 Our light the lighthouse we've covered the Faro de Ajo in Spain. 155 00:07:00,900 --> 00:07:02,900 It's not a short lighthouse. 156 00:07:02,900 --> 00:07:06,900 It's like a I'm pretty sure it was around 70 or 80 feet tall or something. 157 00:07:06,900 --> 00:07:09,900 Well, there's like several lighthouses that were part of that. 158 00:07:09,900 --> 00:07:12,900 The Faro de Caminos. 159 00:07:12,900 --> 00:07:13,900 I think. 160 00:07:13,900 --> 00:07:17,900 Oh, no, not not not the trail, the one that the really brightly colored one. 161 00:07:17,900 --> 00:07:18,900 No, I think you're correct. 162 00:07:18,900 --> 00:07:19,900 Yeah, I think it is. 163 00:07:19,900 --> 00:07:21,900 It's and it's on top of a cliff that's really tall. 164 00:07:21,900 --> 00:07:25,900 And the whole reason behind that is that nobody comes by there. 165 00:07:25,900 --> 00:07:28,900 They're always on the way to a port like coming from far away. 166 00:07:28,900 --> 00:07:30,900 Nobody's they're not worried about anybody. 167 00:07:30,900 --> 00:07:31,900 Not immediately below. 168 00:07:31,900 --> 00:07:33,900 They are worried about people being close to the cliff. 169 00:07:33,900 --> 00:07:36,900 They're trying to direct people in the correct direction. 170 00:07:36,900 --> 00:07:41,900 So obviously, the lighthouse ended up a little bit taller than if they were like concerned about people being closer. 171 00:07:41,900 --> 00:07:43,900 So that's a good example. Yeah. 172 00:07:43,900 --> 00:07:51,900 But then we have things like the Hatteras lighthouse, which is the tallest in the United States, and it's on like almost sea level. 173 00:07:51,900 --> 00:07:58,900 And so they have it be really tall because you're directing people or know that long cautioning people. 174 00:07:58,900 --> 00:08:00,900 Right. Hatteras was the first one to caution people. 175 00:08:00,900 --> 00:08:14,900 Well, I mean, in general, this is kind of an open question, but lighthouses both though they have multiple purposes, but they both direct you to stay away from something or to stay online with something that we talked about in our last episode. 176 00:08:14,900 --> 00:08:19,900 You know, the signal lights or to come to something. 177 00:08:19,900 --> 00:08:23,900 I mean, there might be a light that signals this is the port entry. 178 00:08:23,900 --> 00:08:24,900 Yeah. 179 00:08:24,900 --> 00:08:30,900 And then you want to say this side of that side or between the two points. There's all sorts of different differentiation. 180 00:08:30,900 --> 00:08:35,900 So it makes sense. But Hatteras, Cape Hatteras, I think was. 181 00:08:35,900 --> 00:08:40,900 Well, it's a cape. So there's an entrance into an inlet. 182 00:08:40,900 --> 00:08:49,900 I can't remember. I want to say that this the reason why it's so tall is that there's some range where if you see this light, you're you're getting into a bad area. 183 00:08:49,900 --> 00:08:56,900 So they make it tall enough to where the range in which you're seeing the light is the danger zone and not like anywhere else. 184 00:08:56,900 --> 00:09:00,900 And if you see the paint daymark, then you're really too. Yeah. 185 00:09:00,900 --> 00:09:06,900 Then you're just visiting. You see you see the spiral barbershop effect. Yeah. Go away. 186 00:09:06,900 --> 00:09:09,900 Cool. Yeah. So I don't have any of the math surrounding that. 187 00:09:09,900 --> 00:09:15,900 It was just like a general like these are the things that they keep in mind. But that's basically all I had to say about that. 188 00:09:15,900 --> 00:09:20,900 Well, there's more there's more to it, I'm sure, in like constructability. 189 00:09:20,900 --> 00:09:28,900 Yes. Every lighthouse has come, I think all of them that I can think of has come from some collection of tragedy events, tragic events. 190 00:09:28,900 --> 00:09:32,900 And they say, hey, we've got to put a lighthouse here. 191 00:09:32,900 --> 00:09:36,900 And then usually they ask a couple of times before this funding. 192 00:09:36,900 --> 00:09:40,900 And then, you know, part of the funding for looking at a lighthouse would be all the components you need. 193 00:09:40,900 --> 00:09:47,900 The light, the beacon, given your range and technology of the time, that price varies a lot. Yeah. 194 00:09:47,900 --> 00:09:56,900 We learned. And then also like the tower itself, the tower cost for a taller tower is not just more of it, but they have to be different designs. 195 00:09:56,900 --> 00:10:01,900 It has to be more stable. Depending on the foundation, where it's at. 196 00:10:01,900 --> 00:10:07,900 So I think there's different the height is impacted by a lot more. 197 00:10:07,900 --> 00:10:11,900 Oh, we're both engineers. You know, you design something and you say this is what it's intended for. 198 00:10:11,900 --> 00:10:21,900 This is a perfect design. Air quotes perfect. And then it goes to the construction field and the rest of the real life impacts change what's actually built. 199 00:10:21,900 --> 00:10:23,900 Yeah, right. Interesting. Yeah. 200 00:10:23,900 --> 00:10:31,900 I had to note that the tallest lighthouse in the U.S. is Hatteras at one hundred ninety eight point five feet tall and it's only 10 feet above sea level. 201 00:10:31,900 --> 00:10:41,900 And then it's crazy. In contrast, the shortest that's registered with the USLHS, I think it's hard to find a definitive answer. 202 00:10:41,900 --> 00:10:45,900 Like what is the shortest lighthouse in the U.S. because nobody cares about that. 203 00:10:45,900 --> 00:10:49,900 You know, it's like the tallest one. People are like, oh, wow, fancy. Let's go see it and everything. 204 00:10:49,900 --> 00:10:52,900 The shortest one. People are like, cool. Yeah. What did you find? 205 00:10:52,900 --> 00:10:57,900 But I found Trinidad headlight with a tower height of 25 feet. 206 00:10:57,900 --> 00:11:04,900 OK, so I think I think there would be shorter than that, but it's 200 feet above sea level because it's on a cliff. 207 00:11:04,900 --> 00:11:08,900 OK, so it needs. Yeah, obviously it doesn't need a big tower. 208 00:11:08,900 --> 00:11:16,900 Yeah. So I was just listing those as like you can tell, obviously, that if the short if the land is shorter than the lighthouse, maybe taller. 209 00:11:16,900 --> 00:11:22,900 Well, and you know, as we're learning lighthouses, it's so not simple anymore. 210 00:11:22,900 --> 00:11:27,900 So like this is not US, but Canada, we talked about Triangle Island Light. 211 00:11:27,900 --> 00:11:30,900 That was one of my first episodes. I really enjoyed that one. 212 00:11:30,900 --> 00:11:37,900 But the lantern room was repositioned to Sook, I think it is outside of Victoria. 213 00:11:37,900 --> 00:11:45,900 And so it's like six feet tall, like the tower, because it's a single staircase just to step into the lantern room. 214 00:11:45,900 --> 00:11:48,900 You can't put a lantern room on the ground. So it's like the shortest. 215 00:11:48,900 --> 00:11:53,900 I think I think it's actually like on Google Maps, it's in view of the street. 216 00:11:53,900 --> 00:11:56,900 So they have to be concerned about light refracting. 217 00:11:56,900 --> 00:12:02,900 And it's not a lighthouse today, but it's funny that you said that because there's anomalies everywhere. 218 00:12:02,900 --> 00:12:05,900 And I included a picture of the cutest, tiniest little lighthouse. 219 00:12:05,900 --> 00:12:08,900 It's like it's exactly six feet tall, which is funny. 220 00:12:08,900 --> 00:12:17,900 Then I thought you said that. But this is just on a shoreline, I think, of either a very small lake or a river in front of somebody's house. 221 00:12:17,900 --> 00:12:22,900 OK. And I don't think it's registered with the USLHS, which is why I didn't say that it was the shortest lighthouse. 222 00:12:22,900 --> 00:12:26,900 But it's called Pocahontas Light. And I think another name for it was Echo Light. 223 00:12:26,900 --> 00:12:31,900 Look how cute for one who wants to go see it says Echo Point. 224 00:12:31,900 --> 00:12:35,900 So I think this is just going to be a little private lake or something. 225 00:12:35,900 --> 00:12:38,900 But it showed up as the shortest lighthouse in the US. 226 00:12:38,900 --> 00:12:44,900 So something special going on. Lawn chairs are out there. So cute. 227 00:12:44,900 --> 00:12:52,900 There are when we were in. Where were we staying? North Carolina. 228 00:12:52,900 --> 00:12:58,900 Oh, I said when we were in Nagshead, there was something similar to that in someone's backyard. 229 00:12:58,900 --> 00:13:02,900 As we got the beach access, like the public beach access out there, I can't remember. 230 00:13:02,900 --> 00:13:06,900 It was just like a backyard lighthouse. I think it was just for their own decoration. 231 00:13:06,900 --> 00:13:09,900 But for fun. Yeah, it wasn't quite that sturdy. 232 00:13:09,900 --> 00:13:14,900 We saw one in Sweden, too, before we before the ferry to Lansor. 233 00:13:14,900 --> 00:13:18,900 I still have a lighthouse lamp on my to do list. 234 00:13:18,900 --> 00:13:21,900 Oh, yeah. There's some really nice ones people sell online. 235 00:13:21,900 --> 00:13:25,900 Really fancy to make a little replica of Pocahontas Light here. 236 00:13:25,900 --> 00:13:27,900 I like that one. It's pretty cute. Looks sturdy. 237 00:13:27,900 --> 00:13:30,900 Looks like you store some whiskey bottles in those windows. 238 00:13:30,900 --> 00:13:36,900 Make it all cut in half or you can open it like a cabinet. That'd be pretty cool. 239 00:13:36,900 --> 00:13:39,900 Very cool. Be doing a disservice to the light. 240 00:13:39,900 --> 00:13:43,900 Do you know where this is? Echo Point? I wonder if it's just like someone's lake house. 241 00:13:43,900 --> 00:13:45,900 That's what I was wondering. Yeah. 242 00:13:45,900 --> 00:13:51,900 I just think it's funny that it has a name and it showed up on Google like readily like, oh, here it is. 243 00:13:51,900 --> 00:13:55,900 Like, how? Yeah, it's got some evergreens behind it. Unusual. 244 00:13:55,900 --> 00:13:58,900 Yeah, I didn't look up to see exactly where it is. Cool. 245 00:13:58,900 --> 00:14:06,900 But now we can move on to the lighthouse that we're actually covering today and it is called West Coati Head Lighthouse. 246 00:14:06,900 --> 00:14:11,900 I think that's how you pronounce it. It's what I'm going to go with for this episode. 247 00:14:11,900 --> 00:14:14,900 So if it's wrong, somebody can send me an email and be upset about it. 248 00:14:14,900 --> 00:14:19,900 I'd be all right with it. Huh? Coati. Coati. Q-U-O-D-D-Y. 249 00:14:19,900 --> 00:14:25,900 Like where you break boards and strike poses. What? You get a belt. Coati. 250 00:14:25,900 --> 00:14:35,900 Oh, no. Awful. Awful. Boo. All right. Let's see it. 251 00:14:35,900 --> 00:14:39,900 So we're heading over to Lubeck, Maine. I also think that's how you pronounce it. 252 00:14:39,900 --> 00:14:43,900 Doing my best. This lighthouse is unique for a couple of reasons. 253 00:14:43,900 --> 00:14:49,900 First, it is the furthest east lighthouse in the U.S. as well as the land that it's on. 254 00:14:49,900 --> 00:14:57,900 So it's like the mark of the most easternmost point of the U.S., the United States of America. 255 00:14:57,900 --> 00:15:02,900 Secondly, it's the only candy striped lighthouse in the U.S. 256 00:15:02,900 --> 00:15:09,900 And to me, when I think of candy stripe, I think of like a candy cane, like a spiral. 257 00:15:09,900 --> 00:15:15,900 But I think for lighthouses, candy stripe refers to thin, like a lot of thin bands. 258 00:15:15,900 --> 00:15:21,900 So it's the only one we have. But tell me that's not just the cutest little lighthouse aside from Pocahontas. 259 00:15:21,900 --> 00:15:26,900 It's very cute. It looks like a peppermint. Yeah. Yeah, I thought it was so cute. 260 00:15:26,900 --> 00:15:31,900 Looks like a Waldo. Yeah. Where's Waldo? Yeah, right there. It's right there. 261 00:15:31,900 --> 00:15:36,900 Look how big the Keepers quarters are. Yeah, it's a really nice. It's a nice one. 262 00:15:36,900 --> 00:15:42,900 Three chimneys going on. What is this we keep seeing? We don't know. I don't know about. 263 00:15:42,900 --> 00:15:47,900 Yeah, the little mast shape. It's a mast on land. I keep seeing that as a flagpole. 264 00:15:47,900 --> 00:15:52,900 We're going to have to look it up now because we've seen it a couple of times. Montauk Point had it, too. 265 00:15:52,900 --> 00:15:57,900 It's got to have some meaning. Wow. I never noticed those. And then you pointed out. That's cool. Cool. 266 00:15:57,900 --> 00:16:04,900 So this is what? Thirty feet tall? The tower? Forty nine feet tall. All right. My scale was off. 267 00:16:04,900 --> 00:16:11,900 Well, yeah, that's probably to the top of the lightning rod. I bet so because this the Keepers cottage is two 268 00:16:11,900 --> 00:16:17,900 stories tall. So roughly 10 foot a story. So this picture I'm I'm showing you is deceiving 269 00:16:17,900 --> 00:16:22,900 because the weather is not usually like this at this lighthouse. It's not usually dandy and sunny. 270 00:16:22,900 --> 00:16:28,900 Yeah, it is the first lighthouse to have a fog bell equipped, which is good because 271 00:16:28,900 --> 00:16:36,900 literally half of the month, half of the summer is just dense fog all the time. 272 00:16:36,900 --> 00:16:42,900 And actually. Oh, wow. That is dense fog. Yeah. 273 00:16:42,900 --> 00:16:49,900 So that's what it looks like a majority of the time in the summer. And Keeper Malcolm Rouse, I think his name is. 274 00:16:49,900 --> 00:16:56,900 He was the last keeper at this lighthouse and said one time they had 31 straight days of fog, like relentless fog. 275 00:16:56,900 --> 00:17:03,900 Yeah. A singular day of sun. And then immediately after that, another 29 days of dense fog. But they enjoyed the sunny day. 276 00:17:03,900 --> 00:17:08,900 Yeah. Can you imagine this picture that we're looking at for people that want to look? 277 00:17:08,900 --> 00:17:14,900 You can go to our YouTube or our Instagram and we show all the pictures that we talk about in our episodes. 278 00:17:14,900 --> 00:17:18,900 But can you imagine living in this for almost two months straight? 279 00:17:18,900 --> 00:17:24,900 It's like the people who live in Alaska and don't have sun for like three months. I can't imagine it. 280 00:17:24,900 --> 00:17:28,900 I think it'd be cool. Really cool for a little bit. And then terrible. Yeah. 281 00:17:28,900 --> 00:17:44,900 It'd be in some serious need for vitamin D. It was also the first to have a steam powered fog signal, which I read that the the Lighthouse Board was very reluctant to start steam whistles because at that time. 282 00:17:44,900 --> 00:17:50,900 Boilers. Boilers. Yeah. Yeah. They were worried about having. Explosion. Yeah. 283 00:17:50,900 --> 00:17:56,900 They were worried about having inexperienced like people that aren't professionals in boilers to be operating a boiler. 284 00:17:56,900 --> 00:18:05,900 And so they put it off for a long time before it became like safer, you know, like safety related stuff was enacted. 285 00:18:05,900 --> 00:18:11,900 And then they allowed keepers to run steam whistles instead of the original fog. 286 00:18:11,900 --> 00:18:21,900 Yeah. Boilers. I mean, the concept of a boiler is to create a pressure vessel that has high temperature and high pressure steam. 287 00:18:21,900 --> 00:18:26,900 Yeah. So if there's an accident, it's not very good. Yeah. 288 00:18:26,900 --> 00:18:31,900 And if there's any kind of a problem or anything, keepers are not going to know. 289 00:18:31,900 --> 00:18:38,900 I mean, it was new. It was like a new thing. So early adopters are risk takers. Exactly. 290 00:18:38,900 --> 00:18:46,900 It's like us with this podcast. So West Quah. 291 00:18:46,900 --> 00:18:52,900 You're always just late enough to write start my new sentence. And then I'm like, oh, yes. 292 00:18:52,900 --> 00:18:58,900 Here you can try. All right. Dang it. West. 293 00:18:58,900 --> 00:19:04,900 Kowati. West. Kowati. I hate the Kowati kid. 294 00:19:04,900 --> 00:19:11,900 You're ruining this for me. It was a little foggy in Kowati. Is it still foggy? 295 00:19:11,900 --> 00:19:17,900 I assume the weather hasn't changed. No, it's still Maine. 296 00:19:17,900 --> 00:19:26,900 But it was OK. West Kowati was named after Passama Kowati Bay, which was named after the Native Americans who have lived there for centuries. 297 00:19:26,900 --> 00:19:31,900 OK. The name means Pollock Spear Pollock Pollock Pollock. 298 00:19:31,900 --> 00:19:43,900 Pollock is a fish. OK, which reflects the excellent fishing that's done in this area and also was a reason for that attracted European settlers in about 1604. 299 00:19:43,900 --> 00:19:48,900 It's when they started moving on over. That's early. Scooch. Scooching early for us. 300 00:19:48,900 --> 00:19:57,900 Yeah. And it wasn't until 1806. So 200 years later that commerce actually started to increase to this area. 301 00:19:57,900 --> 00:20:07,900 And locals asked to have a lighthouse built because there was apparently like basaltic outcroppings around the entrance to Passama Kowati Bay. 302 00:20:07,900 --> 00:20:11,900 And they needed a lighthouse to kind of direct people in, make it less dangerous. 303 00:20:11,900 --> 00:20:19,900 And this area, the entrance to the bay is called the Kowati Narrows, which I think sounds like something that would be like in a thriller film or something. 304 00:20:19,900 --> 00:20:23,900 Yeah. Narrows is a cool. Like there'd be a like a log cabin on the edge of it. 305 00:20:23,900 --> 00:20:30,900 Maybe spooky. Yeah. Spooky and foggy. Speaking of spooky, Vince and I have a surprise for our next episode. 306 00:20:30,900 --> 00:20:35,900 It's going to be very Halloween. It's still lighthouse focused. 307 00:20:35,900 --> 00:20:44,900 We're going to have an interview going on and Vince and I are going to be recording our section of the episode on Friday the 13th. 308 00:20:44,900 --> 00:20:49,900 First one that was in October. 309 00:20:49,900 --> 00:20:58,900 A little late, but another reason we don't have videos in the podcast studio so that I can dance along to our spooky sound videos yet. 310 00:20:58,900 --> 00:21:02,900 Nobody ever gets you this way. 311 00:21:02,900 --> 00:21:06,900 But so everyone keep an eye out for that. That'll post on October 30th. 312 00:21:06,900 --> 00:21:10,900 So the day before Halloween, it's going to be very spooky and exciting. 313 00:21:10,900 --> 00:21:14,900 We're ready for it. Anyway, back to West Kowati Lighthouse. 314 00:21:14,900 --> 00:21:24,900 A year after locals asked for a lighthouse, $5,000 was allocated and a white octagonal wooden tower and keepers dwelling was built in 1808. 315 00:21:24,900 --> 00:21:34,900 Because of the fog and the newness of fog bells at this time, a lot of them were cycled through in just a couple of years as they were trying to figure out what was going to work best. 316 00:21:34,900 --> 00:21:48,900 So in 1820 was the first fog bell and it was 500 pounds. But complaints started coming in immediately about it not being useful in bad weather. 317 00:21:48,900 --> 00:21:53,900 Like nobody could hear anything. So they replaced it with a 241 pound bell. 318 00:21:53,900 --> 00:22:00,900 So less than half hoping that the higher pitch would travel better and people would be able to hear it, but they still couldn't. 319 00:22:00,900 --> 00:22:06,900 So then they replaced that with a 1565 pound bell. 320 00:22:06,900 --> 00:22:10,900 Can't go smaller, go bigger. 321 00:22:10,900 --> 00:22:14,900 Seven times bigger. 1500 pounds. Yeah. 322 00:22:14,900 --> 00:22:20,900 But they still said that it could not quote could not be heard even a quarter mile from the lighthouse. 323 00:22:20,900 --> 00:22:25,900 Wow. Quarter mile is pretty bad. Rough weather. That's bad. 324 00:22:25,900 --> 00:22:35,900 Like especially a quarter mile you're closing in. Do you know what the range of the light is under what conditions? 325 00:22:35,900 --> 00:22:38,900 That's probably hard to quantify. Yeah. 326 00:22:38,900 --> 00:22:44,900 Well, sometimes they put the range, but I'm sure that means in optimal weather you'd be able to see it. 327 00:22:44,900 --> 00:22:56,900 Anyway, they talked about building a lighthouse and a bell on sail rock, which technically is actually the most eastern most point of the United States. 328 00:22:56,900 --> 00:23:00,900 It's this tiny island outside of West Quad. 329 00:23:00,900 --> 00:23:11,900 And so they talked about putting a lighthouse and a fog bell out there because it'd be better for the people sailing to have notice not right when they get to the bay. 330 00:23:11,900 --> 00:23:15,900 And they actually allocated money for it, but it was just never built. 331 00:23:15,900 --> 00:23:18,900 I don't know what happened because I think it would have benefited everybody. 332 00:23:18,900 --> 00:23:22,900 But maybe it would have been hard to keep a keeper out there because it was such this tiny little. 333 00:23:22,900 --> 00:23:30,900 Let me go back to where I had the map. The map. Oh, I saw it. See this tiny little. Yeah, that'd be difficult. 334 00:23:30,900 --> 00:23:32,900 Yeah, it'd be hard to have a keeper out there. 335 00:23:32,900 --> 00:23:39,900 So I think they might have abandoned it for that reason or just it would have been hard to build something out there and with the fog and everything. 336 00:23:39,900 --> 00:23:42,900 I don't know. Probably was a stretch like, oh, we already got a lighthouse. 337 00:23:42,900 --> 00:23:46,900 We already have a fog. Yeah, might as well just leave it. Yeah. 338 00:23:46,900 --> 00:23:49,900 That's not in the image we're looking at. That's not the fifteen hundred pound bell. 339 00:23:49,900 --> 00:23:55,900 Is it seems like a two fifty? I vaguely remember five hundred. 340 00:23:55,900 --> 00:24:02,900 I remember this happened to us last time we did an episode and there was a bell outside and we're like, that doesn't look like a thousand pounds or a scump. 341 00:24:02,900 --> 00:24:05,900 Yeah. And then we're like, maybe it is Marshall Point. 342 00:24:05,900 --> 00:24:11,900 I think the weight of bells is very deceiving to their size. 343 00:24:11,900 --> 00:24:14,900 But we just have to accept that. Maybe they lie. 344 00:24:14,900 --> 00:24:18,900 After two decades, what are you going to say? 345 00:24:18,900 --> 00:24:22,900 The weight of the bell is not actually a manufactured number. 346 00:24:22,900 --> 00:24:25,900 It's just what the guy told you. He put it up there. 347 00:24:25,900 --> 00:24:32,900 And that thing was heavy. It was like probably eleven hundred fifteen hundred pounds. 348 00:24:32,900 --> 00:24:37,900 It was like a whale carrying. That's how much they weigh. 349 00:24:37,900 --> 00:24:45,900 Let's hope that's not true, because they would have been really specific then, because this was one thousand five hundred and sixty five. 350 00:24:45,900 --> 00:24:51,900 Yeah, that's one way to lie. You just get oddly specific. Yeah, you could tell them something embarrassing about yourself. 351 00:24:51,900 --> 00:24:57,900 I stepped my finger. Son of a bitch. Anyway. 352 00:24:57,900 --> 00:25:02,900 After two decades, the original lighthouse was deteriorating, which is pretty bad. 353 00:25:02,900 --> 00:25:06,900 Two decades feel like it should. I mean, we've got a lot of moisture in the air here. 354 00:25:06,900 --> 00:25:10,900 So I guess we could blame it on that. 355 00:25:10,900 --> 00:25:15,900 But a new one was built for approximately two thousand four hundred dollars out of rubble stone. 356 00:25:15,900 --> 00:25:18,900 However, this lighthouse. Yeah, it's a good deal. 357 00:25:18,900 --> 00:25:21,900 This light was poorly built. Wasn't a good deal. 358 00:25:21,900 --> 00:25:24,900 I know. Which that was the same thing that happened to Marshall Point. 359 00:25:24,900 --> 00:25:27,900 Right. Or maybe it was Montauk. 360 00:25:27,900 --> 00:25:30,900 It was just made of rubble stone and it was just so bad. 361 00:25:30,900 --> 00:25:33,900 We had to redo it. Maybe it was the same guy. 362 00:25:33,900 --> 00:25:39,900 We got to figure out who this guy is that's making these horrible rubble stone lighthouses. 363 00:25:39,900 --> 00:25:44,900 Get him fired. I can build you one for half price. Eighteen hundred out of rocks. 364 00:25:44,900 --> 00:25:46,900 He's probably still alive. Right. 365 00:25:46,900 --> 00:25:48,900 It only took a decade before they needed to replace it again. 366 00:25:48,900 --> 00:25:54,900 Less than a decade. So no boy, no. A new one was built in eighteen fifty seven from brick. 367 00:25:54,900 --> 00:25:59,900 And this is also when it received its third order fixed for Nellyn's. 368 00:25:59,900 --> 00:26:02,900 Very nice. So this is when it was newly built. 369 00:26:02,900 --> 00:26:06,900 It didn't even have its gallery railing up yet. 370 00:26:06,900 --> 00:26:11,900 There's another railing that's going to be added on there. So very cool and black and white. 371 00:26:11,900 --> 00:26:15,900 And this was still the original Keepers Cottage. They switched it here and just. 372 00:26:15,900 --> 00:26:19,900 They did pretty good building buildings in 18, whatever. Yeah. 373 00:26:19,900 --> 00:26:23,900 I mean, just appearances wise, it's very square. 374 00:26:23,900 --> 00:26:29,900 And now that you know that you've said something about it, I think the house is connected to the lighthouse. 375 00:26:29,900 --> 00:26:33,900 It looks like there's a little walkway. Yeah, I can't remember. 376 00:26:33,900 --> 00:26:36,900 There's some word for that. Yeah. Right. Birdcage. 377 00:26:36,900 --> 00:26:41,900 Well, and who knows where the steam whistle was eventually. 378 00:26:41,900 --> 00:26:45,900 I don't know if I have a picture of it, but it's like a whole other structure by itself. 379 00:26:45,900 --> 00:26:48,900 OK. You know, you're the who you are. 380 00:26:48,900 --> 00:26:54,900 I'm not sure if I posted it. I have a picture, but I can put one on the Instagram whenever we. 381 00:26:54,900 --> 00:26:56,900 Yeah, all these photos should be on Instagram. 382 00:26:56,900 --> 00:27:02,900 And then in the coming times soon, I'm going to try to figure out Spotify as well. 383 00:27:02,900 --> 00:27:06,900 Oh, interesting for video. Yeah. Just to have it kind of incorporated. 384 00:27:06,900 --> 00:27:15,900 Yeah, that's an idea, because for people that if there is anyone else in this world that listens to our podcast on Google podcasts, they're going away. 385 00:27:15,900 --> 00:27:19,900 I don't know why, but that's where I listen to my podcasts. 386 00:27:19,900 --> 00:27:22,900 I might be the only one that listens to ours on on that. 387 00:27:22,900 --> 00:27:27,900 Spotify is big right now. YouTube is growing for us. We appreciate that. Yeah. 388 00:27:27,900 --> 00:27:32,900 Even LinkedIn, you know, it's not the media on LinkedIn, but people travel in from LinkedIn. 389 00:27:32,900 --> 00:27:41,900 So email from Google talking about how its app was going away for podcasts said that we should move on over to Apple podcasts. 390 00:27:41,900 --> 00:27:44,900 I looked at Apple podcasts and I'm not sure I like it. 391 00:27:44,900 --> 00:27:49,900 I think Apple invented podcasts. I think I'm just stuck in my ways. 392 00:27:49,900 --> 00:27:52,900 I'm like, where's the Q button? And there's no Q button. 393 00:27:52,900 --> 00:27:57,900 And I'm like, oh, so I hate it. All right. 394 00:27:57,900 --> 00:27:59,900 Feedback for Apple. Yeah. 395 00:27:59,900 --> 00:28:11,900 Take that to heart. Yeah, we had a fixed light characteristic, a brand new for Nellins and this tower and the for Nellins are still in use today from what year? 396 00:28:11,900 --> 00:28:14,900 18 1857. Wow. 397 00:28:14,900 --> 00:28:18,900 Clap for them. 398 00:28:18,900 --> 00:28:21,900 Nice. That's enough. Oh, wow. 399 00:28:21,900 --> 00:28:25,900 Very short. Only a little bit of clapping. 400 00:28:25,900 --> 00:28:27,900 It's aggressive. 401 00:28:27,900 --> 00:28:29,900 But yeah, this one's 49 feet tall. 402 00:28:29,900 --> 00:28:34,900 The one that we have today, red and white candy stripe and it's 83 feet above sea level. 403 00:28:34,900 --> 00:28:37,900 So run a little bit of a cliff edge. Smart. 404 00:28:37,900 --> 00:28:45,900 In 1866, the added a fog signal that was like up to date and then improved it in 1868. 405 00:28:45,900 --> 00:28:56,900 And this is whenever they added the steam whistle that two years later, they resisted for just a little bit longer and then had it, you know, up to normal. 406 00:28:56,900 --> 00:28:58,900 Everyday standards. Yeah, man. 407 00:28:58,900 --> 00:29:01,900 I bet there's steam whistles tootin all the time. 408 00:29:01,900 --> 00:29:03,900 Oh, just nonstop. 409 00:29:03,900 --> 00:29:09,900 Like we just said, the guys had to almost two months of straight fog. 410 00:29:09,900 --> 00:29:12,900 Yeah, the thing was going 24 7. 411 00:29:12,900 --> 00:29:15,900 Maybe it's only under storm conditions or something. 412 00:29:15,900 --> 00:29:17,900 You know, not just fog. I think it's fog. 413 00:29:17,900 --> 00:29:20,900 Oh, I know. Tough. 414 00:29:20,900 --> 00:29:24,900 Awful. You think people just wouldn't come here? 415 00:29:24,900 --> 00:29:27,900 You're like, fine. It is going to be foggy for two months. 416 00:29:27,900 --> 00:29:31,900 We just won't go there. Traders got a trade in 1885. 417 00:29:31,900 --> 00:29:45,900 The West Quarry Fog signal logged the most hours of any U.S. light station at one thousand nine hundred and forty five hours running time in one year. 418 00:29:45,900 --> 00:29:53,900 Yes. So I'm pretty sure a man, I'm gonna say a man, but a person, a man working for a year like a man year. 419 00:29:53,900 --> 00:29:57,900 Is two thousand hours. I know there's it's something like that. 420 00:29:57,900 --> 00:30:02,900 There's a between eight thousand and nine thousand hours in a year total. 421 00:30:02,900 --> 00:30:07,900 So if you were to work eight hours a day, right. But these guys don't have normal working hours. 422 00:30:07,900 --> 00:30:12,900 I'm just saying just for a scale, eight hours a day. Yeah. Five days a week. 423 00:30:12,900 --> 00:30:16,900 Let's say you get two weeks off. So 50 weeks a year out of the 52. 424 00:30:16,900 --> 00:30:18,900 That's two thousand hours. 425 00:30:18,900 --> 00:30:28,900 That thing that steam was also put in as many hours as a normal human man. 426 00:30:28,900 --> 00:30:31,900 That's insane. Good for them. Yeah, good for them. 427 00:30:31,900 --> 00:30:34,900 I hope they got an award or a patch or something. 428 00:30:34,900 --> 00:30:36,900 I bet you they had some dope ear muffs they slept in. 429 00:30:36,900 --> 00:30:42,900 I'm sure they did because they can't be too far from the fog signal. 430 00:30:42,900 --> 00:30:43,900 That's too bad. 431 00:30:43,900 --> 00:30:49,900 1899. So before the turn of the century, the Keepers Cottage was converted to a duplex, 432 00:30:49,900 --> 00:30:54,900 which is what we have today is an improved lighthouse. 433 00:30:54,900 --> 00:30:58,900 Very nice. Although this picture is from 1892. 434 00:30:58,900 --> 00:31:01,900 So maybe there was some but it's a duplex. 435 00:31:01,900 --> 00:31:04,900 So maybe the year is wrong that I have written down. 436 00:31:04,900 --> 00:31:06,900 That's definitely a duplex. We've got two front doors. 437 00:31:06,900 --> 00:31:09,900 Yeah. So one of the years is wrong. 438 00:31:09,900 --> 00:31:18,900 But anyway, circa 1892, the inspection that was done in this year was a lot of trouble for the keepers. 439 00:31:18,900 --> 00:31:20,900 Or should I say the keepers were in a lot of trouble? 440 00:31:20,900 --> 00:31:30,900 No, the station was reported in, quote, deplorable condition and, quote, basically dust and rust everywhere. 441 00:31:30,900 --> 00:31:35,900 There were greasy rags thrown, just strewn about. 442 00:31:35,900 --> 00:31:39,900 And they said the duplex was in like just a mess. 443 00:31:39,900 --> 00:31:43,900 They added a parlor for each one. It's basically the entryway. 444 00:31:43,900 --> 00:31:48,900 And they just made it storage space for all their stuff. 445 00:31:48,900 --> 00:31:52,900 So when you walk into their house, it's just piled with boxes and things. 446 00:31:52,900 --> 00:31:56,900 Yeah. They even said that the Fresnel lens was dusty. 447 00:31:56,900 --> 00:32:00,900 No shame for shame. 448 00:32:00,900 --> 00:32:01,900 It can get hot, right? 449 00:32:01,900 --> 00:32:07,900 Well, it just reduces the visibility of the light. And you already have bad conditions over there. 450 00:32:07,900 --> 00:32:09,900 So, yeah, just crazy bad marks everywhere. 451 00:32:09,900 --> 00:32:18,900 And West Quarry is considered a very comfortable light station because it's so close to South Lubeck, which is just the town. 452 00:32:18,900 --> 00:32:22,900 And so this was like this was like a nice lighthouse to be stationed at. 453 00:32:22,900 --> 00:32:29,900 You should be thankful. And so as punishment, the current headkeeper was to be moved to a less desirable station. 454 00:32:29,900 --> 00:32:36,900 My mouth dropped whenever I read that. I was like, they just were like, you know, you have it too good. 455 00:32:36,900 --> 00:32:39,900 Yeah. Like you're not going to be thankful for the station. You're going to go somewhere worse. 456 00:32:39,900 --> 00:32:46,900 Show some respect. Yeah. So they were going to they were going to reposition him to Avery Rocklight and he quit. 457 00:32:46,900 --> 00:32:49,900 Do we know where that is? I don't. I don't. 458 00:32:49,900 --> 00:32:53,900 But apparently it's just a less someone out there is going, wow, a bad one. 459 00:32:53,900 --> 00:32:55,900 They said every rock light. Let's see. 460 00:32:55,900 --> 00:33:01,900 Every rock lighthouse is located also in Maine. 461 00:33:01,900 --> 00:33:04,900 Oh, gosh. So it's on a it's on a little island. 462 00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:07,900 It says the rock encompasses only about a quarter of an acre. 463 00:33:07,900 --> 00:33:11,900 So that would not be very good. Back to the saltine crackers. 464 00:33:11,900 --> 00:33:13,900 Well, and this guy said that he worked there for seven years. 465 00:33:13,900 --> 00:33:17,900 So he quit because he was like, he said he could not go back. 466 00:33:17,900 --> 00:33:19,900 He said he couldn't handle going back to that lighthouse. 467 00:33:19,900 --> 00:33:21,900 So he just quit. I don't blame him. 468 00:33:21,900 --> 00:33:25,900 You know what? And if he wasn't going to take care of this light station, then good riddance. 469 00:33:25,900 --> 00:33:29,900 It sounds like an awful lot of work, especially after watching the film, The Lighthouse. 470 00:33:29,900 --> 00:33:33,900 Yeah. Robert Pattinson, William DeFoe. 471 00:33:33,900 --> 00:33:37,900 But you got to clean that for now. 472 00:33:37,900 --> 00:33:42,900 Come on. Windex. If anything's going to be in bad shape, like fine, let it be your house. 473 00:33:42,900 --> 00:33:45,900 Although it's also unacceptable. Like they just. Yeah. 474 00:33:45,900 --> 00:33:48,900 Lighthouse keepers were held to a very high standard of cleanliness. 475 00:33:48,900 --> 00:33:53,900 They came over and they did this thing where they run their finger on a surface and take a look. 476 00:33:53,900 --> 00:33:57,900 I think they still do that in military service. I would imagine. 477 00:33:57,900 --> 00:33:59,900 They can bunk rooms and stuff. Yeah. 478 00:33:59,900 --> 00:34:04,900 Nineteen thirty four, the station was electrified and wasn't automated until nineteen eighty eight. 479 00:34:04,900 --> 00:34:08,900 So it's pretty late to be automated, to have no more keepers. 480 00:34:08,900 --> 00:34:11,900 Nineteen eighty eight. Wow. It is late. 481 00:34:11,900 --> 00:34:17,900 The lighthouse was transferred to Maine's Bureau of Parks and Land under the Maine Lights Program in nineteen ninety eight, 482 00:34:17,900 --> 00:34:22,900 which we talked about in the last episode, somewhere between nineteen thirty one and nineteen thirty five. 483 00:34:22,900 --> 00:34:30,900 The light characteristic changed. And so today it's two seconds on, two seconds off, two seconds on, nine seconds off, 484 00:34:30,900 --> 00:34:40,900 which is kind of a special, a special light characteristic to have that it's like an asymmetrical series of eclipses. 485 00:34:40,900 --> 00:34:45,900 Yeah, I've never heard that one before, although I probably can't name any other ones that I've heard. 486 00:34:45,900 --> 00:34:50,900 I mean, they vary, but it's it's strange to have them have it varied like that. 487 00:34:50,900 --> 00:34:57,900 Yeah. Today you can tour the lighthouse in the summer months, which I thought was hilarious because it's mostly foggy. 488 00:34:57,900 --> 00:35:01,900 Not that like it's less special to see the lighthouse in the fog. 489 00:35:01,900 --> 00:35:07,900 It actually would be kind of cool. But the view it like the photo that I showed you in the beginning of the episode, the view is amazing. 490 00:35:07,900 --> 00:35:10,900 If you can see it, if you catch a clear day, it'd be gorgeous. 491 00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:17,900 Yeah. Keepers Cottage is now a visitor center run by the West Quarry Head Lightkeepers Association. 492 00:35:17,900 --> 00:35:26,900 And the USLHS reports that you can actually stay in Lubeck at the former life saving station, which is only a five minute walk from the tower. 493 00:35:26,900 --> 00:35:32,900 So you can't rent out a room at the lighthouse, but you can be as close as a five minute walk. 494 00:35:32,900 --> 00:35:36,900 So it's very nearby. Interesting. Like a first responder station. 495 00:35:36,900 --> 00:35:40,900 Yeah, exactly. And I need to do an episode about that. 496 00:35:40,900 --> 00:35:43,900 Pretty. That we can cover. But that's gorgeous. 497 00:35:43,900 --> 00:35:48,900 Yeah. It's such a cute little lighthouse. I love it's the red top, the red little cap. 498 00:35:48,900 --> 00:35:51,900 Yeah. It really is like where's Waldo. 499 00:35:51,900 --> 00:35:56,900 It's a great setting. The rock face and the thick grass and the evergreens. Yeah. 500 00:35:56,900 --> 00:35:59,900 Very pretty. Yeah. Another picture. 501 00:35:59,900 --> 00:36:02,900 Oh, yeah. That little beacon light. 502 00:36:02,900 --> 00:36:06,900 And how fun, yeah, to have a fresnel lens that's still in use. It's just not as common. 503 00:36:06,900 --> 00:36:12,900 Like a lot of people, you know, like our last episode, it was taken out of commission in 2017. 504 00:36:12,900 --> 00:36:16,900 So very late, but there's still some that are just still going. 505 00:36:16,900 --> 00:36:19,900 It's going to be a sad day when they're taken out. Yeah. I think people are trying to keep them. 506 00:36:19,900 --> 00:36:25,900 They're trying to keep lighthouses in good shape and maintain what they have. Yeah. 507 00:36:25,900 --> 00:36:31,900 I wonder why there are holes in the cupola for airflow. Oh, the vent ball. 508 00:36:31,900 --> 00:36:35,900 Yeah. Yeah, that's just so that hot air can escape. 509 00:36:35,900 --> 00:36:38,900 I'm sure you wouldn't want the holes facing up because then water would come dripping in. 510 00:36:38,900 --> 00:36:41,900 Oh, does it allow ventilation from the lantern room? Yeah. OK. 511 00:36:41,900 --> 00:36:44,900 That does make sense. Cool. Yep. 512 00:36:44,900 --> 00:36:49,900 And the lightning round has a little forked tongue at the end. That is interesting. 513 00:36:49,900 --> 00:36:53,900 We're just discovering all these cute things about the close up. Yeah. 514 00:36:53,900 --> 00:37:00,900 That's West Quoddy Head Lighthouse, our eastern most lighthouse in the United States of America. 515 00:37:00,900 --> 00:37:03,900 Stripey and adorable. Quoddy. 516 00:37:03,900 --> 00:37:11,900 I cannot believe you hung on to that the whole episode. Quoddy. 517 00:37:11,900 --> 00:37:15,900 Do you have anything else to add? No, I'm looking forward to the next couple of episodes. 518 00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:17,900 Appreciate everyone coming along for us. Yeah. Get excited. 519 00:37:17,900 --> 00:37:23,900 Our next one's spooky. It'll only post one day before, you know, spooky season's over. 520 00:37:23,900 --> 00:37:26,900 But I think the height of spooky season is not really Halloween focused. 521 00:37:26,900 --> 00:37:30,900 It's just spooky. So I think it should be a good one. 522 00:37:30,900 --> 00:37:32,900 We're very excited. Cool. 523 00:37:32,900 --> 00:37:37,900 But thanks for listening in. 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