Hi everyone, I'm Emily. And I'm Vince. And this
is The Lighthouse Lowdown. Nice little, what
was it, what is it called when you do that? I
don't know, like jazz hands or something? Yeah,
I was thinking like starburst or something. Could
be, could be, is it a dancing term? Um, no. From
the lightning dancers? That's what I'll call
it. Don't talk about my past. No, we don't want
to talk about that. All right, I used to be a
dancer, a drill team, Texas football, and now
we're here. And they were called the Lightning
Dancers. Yeah, everyone was rude. So I changed
to bowling, and now I'm just a nerd. Now she's
mine. Nerd and with damaged hamstrings from all
the splits that I couldn't do but did anyway.
Really painful. Well, you made it, and that was
probably helpful in bowling. What, having stiff
hamstrings? Probably not, but I tried. I tried.
Anyway. So I'll go into our history buoy. I have
one. Yeah, let's go. Oh, wait. Hold on. We have
Vince back on the sound effects. Back on the
mic. Okay, excuse me. That went on far too long.
The crowd was out of control. Imagine if we had
a live audience. Oh, it'd be terrible. Well,
we're going to. Vince and I have been accepted
to do a presentation at the Osher Institute in
the spring. Public speaking. Osher. O -S -H -E
-R. Oh, did I say Osher? No, you said Osher.
I'm just telling the fans. If you want to come
see us talk live for the first time ever, it's
through the Osher Institute. You have to be a
part of it. I think it's related to Boise State
University. I'm actually not sure. They're everywhere.
Oh, really? Yeah. That's really great. So, but
yeah, it'll be at Boise. I'm excited. I'm less
than excited. We have to get lighthouse print
suits to wear. Suits. Wow. Absolutely. Can you
imagine? I wouldn't want to set that tone for
our presentation. History Buoy is going to be
about the light list. The light list. During
our Whitefish Point episode, we were talking,
like questioning how mariners knew. what kind
of changes came up with navigational aids. How
do they stay updated? And we promptly, the day
of publication, promptly got a response from
Ralph, who told us the answer to that question.
Let's go, Ralph. That is The Light List. That's
the name, The Light List. And it's been updated
for centuries. So this has been going on since...
Basically, since we've had navigational aids,
nowadays it's officially the U .S. Coast Guard
light list, which is in a digital format, and
they update that daily, which I think is crazy.
It has over 40 ,000 navigational aids, also called
ATONS, A -T -O -N -S, in the Northeast alone.
So they have it split up by region. And just
in that one digital file, there's 40 ,000. I'm
like, in this day and age? So 40 ,000... Buoys,
lighthouses, foghorns. And this is a description
of how the flash pattern is? I'll show an example.
Why is this not working? The light list. So I'll
show an example. But yeah, it's basically, it's
like their location, what their light characteristic
is, their signal patterns, which... This is not...
how i want it there's no way to make this there
we go that's how i like it i think your uh cable
is unhooked on the side towards the boom see
those the hook oh there's no string on it okay
on the bottom oh it helps it to balance yeah
why are they all off i'm not sure just pick some
random this one's off too Some random ones here.
Maybe it's because we treat them so poorly. Yeah,
if anyone wants to sponsor us. So we can get
better equipment. We can go for an update on
our equipment. Specifically, Rode, Sennheiser,
Bose. You know, the good stuff. Any Skullcandy,
I don't care. Skullcandy, that's a blast from
the past. Yeah, they're still out there. So,
I've taken us off track. No, no, I did it with
this. The list has... light characteristics,
and signal patterns. So you can take a look at
it and find out if the buoy you're approaching
is a very specific one. Cool. That's awesome.
And mariners use this list along with nautical
charts and local notices to mariners, which is
another thing that's updated regularly, also
called LNMs. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Yeah, sorry.
To find the way around. And that's that. So originally
these notices would be published in newspapers
and so that it would be like a blurb, just a
little paragraph that's like, hey, this buoy
is out because of a storm or this lighthouse
is damaged or this foghorn's not working or they
changed the light to this or they're painting
this one, you know, just like weekly or daily.
I don't think it's daily. Probably just in the
newspaper. Yeah. It used to be daily. A lot of
places. I think some smaller towns had less than
daily. It was a big deal, like in the city, they
had the daily news. Yeah, true. Yeah, so just,
I guess whenever, and you just hope that you
had the updated information. But I looked on
the light list on the Coast Guard website. I
guess where I found it is the Navigational Center.
In the Coast Guard website, which is linked in
our show notes. If anybody's interested in scrolling
through hundreds of pages of navigational buoys.
I like that idea. And I pulled up just a screen
grab of part of one page. So it just has various
information. You can see the light characteristic
that we're familiar with on there. And it's latitude,
longitude, the name. And each one is assigned
a number, obviously, from one to. 40 ,000 for
Northeast. Yeah. So that's thousands of entries.
Yeah. Thousands. I'm sure. Hundreds of thousands.
Hundreds of thousands. I didn't look at all how
many are in each region, but Northeast is a pretty
popular. Right. Yeah. Navigational eras. Lots
of lighthouses. Exactly. Lots of lighthouses,
lots of buoys. Very cool. Thank you. So originally
these were updated by local superintendents and
then by the U .S. Lighthouse Board and now by
the Coast Guard. So I thought I saw that it was
updated weekly and then I saw that it said it
was updated every 24 hours. And then they have
an annual one that they publish every year. Lots
of ways to stay informed. Do you know, is that
publish meant like a book or is it online only?
I think it's only digital now. Probably to stay
up to date. Yeah, it used to not be. I mean,
obviously, but like even in recent years, it
used to not be just digital, but now I think
it's only digital. Cool. It's a lot of paper.
Yeah, thousands and thousands. Really cool. And
we'll move on to our lighthouse today. After
that little bit of information, little bits,
we have a listener lighthouse lined up. So thank
you for sending this one on, Travis. Travis.
Thank you for sending this in. I mentioned how
we talked about this in our whitefish episode,
Whitefish Point. And so speaking of, we're heading
back to the same area, Shipwreck Coast on Lake
Superior. I'm actually not sure where Shipwreck
Coast is at. We covered it in our Whitefish Point
episode. So go back and have a listen for all
the juicy deets. But I think long story short
is that it's where most shipwrecks happen in
Lake Superior. Sure. Well, it's funny. I remember
the graveyard of the Pacific is the Outer Banks
area. Or the Atlantic, excuse me. And the graveyard
of the Pacific is near that big inlet. Cape Disappointment
is over there. Yeah, Victoria's. That's up north.
Oh. What's the big river? Well, yeah, that you
covered in Cape Disappointment. Columbia River,
the bar. So, anyways. I guess Terrible Tilly
is over there, too. Oh, yeah, Terrible Tilly.
So, yeah, I guess there's one for every body
of water. So, we've got one for our Great Lakes
over here. So, in 1876, four life -saving stations
were built along this shipwreck coast. which
is kind of crazy like four just along this all
in one year sure they said it was like 70 miles
which i guess is a lot but yeah all in one year
it was vermilion crisps point two heart river
and deer park life -saving stations and that's
from east to west so crisps point Was originally
called Station Number 10, which would have been
easier for me to say, but was later named after
the second keeper of the life -saving station,
Christopher Crisp, who served from 1878 to 1890.
So pretty big stint doing some life -saving duties.
So then they renamed it to Crisp's Point. And
then they, like, over time, it was like Crisp's,
like, ownership. Yeah. Apostrophe. With a C?
Yeah, like a crisp. Crisp, crisp. Something crispy.
And then they removed the apostrophe. You know
how over time stuff just loses its detail. Someone
spells it wrong. Yeah, so it lost its apostrophe,
and now it's lost the S on the end, so it's just
crisp point. Which is also kind of hard to say.
But a little bit easier than crisps point. It's
like saying wasps. Yeah, wasps. Very good. But
Christopher Crisp is a fun name. It is. I agree
with that. And I think this may be one of the
first lighthouses that we've covered, or that
at least that I've known that they had a life
-saving station before they had a lighthouse.
In 1896, so that's 20 years after the life -saving
stations were built, the lighthouse board first
requested a lighthouse on this point saying,
quote, this is a dangerous point for vessels
bound down the lake in thick weather. These vessels
all try to make Whitefish Point, but a slight
variation in their course from the nearest point
of departure will run them ashore near Crisp's
Point. Several wrecks have occurred here, end
quote. And they repeated this request until 1902
when Congress appropriated $18 ,000 for a lighthouse
and a fog signal. Six years. This is 16. Oh,
here's the location. Oh, yeah. Can I take a second
to look at it? Sure. And my little blown up image
is just to show how, what's it called? Like secluded
it is. There's nothing there. Wildlife reserve.
Never built any like big cities or anything.
I bet it's gorgeous in the summer. Yeah. Yeah.
In the winter, it's probably pretty scary. So
it's on the, uh, the South coast of, is this
Lake Superior? I actually don't know. Yeah. Lake
Superior is the, yeah. Very cool. So. It continues
all the way down. Ultra green. But I had never
seen the clipping set up to where you could see
every year how they submit the exact same information.
No, I've never seen that. Waiting for the lighthouse
to be approved. And so each year they add, it
says like, the following recommendation made
in the board's annual report is renewed. And
then the next one says, the following recommendation
made in the board's last two annual reports is
renewed. And it goes on the last three, the last
four, the last five. Also, it grows in length,
it looks like. Or is that just a first glance?
I think it's, I think the first one was a little
bit longer and then they just kept the important
points. Sure. And then here is whenever it was
approved. So it's just like a little blurb about
how much money and everything. So that's so funny.
I know I'd never seen it all put together like
that. And we've read it a couple of times where
they're like, Hey, they repeat this request every
year. And then it gets. Oh, like they allow it.
But I'm like, what does that actually look like?
Are they, we actually, I think we even talked
about it. Like every time you ask for it, do
you just copy and paste the same thing you sent
last year? And you do. Try to make a better argument.
They're like, no. I don't know at this point.
I already asked for this for Christmas. So yeah,
so we got accepted 1902, $18 ,000. And the lighthouse
was a 58 foot tall brick circular white tower.
a classic that flares out to the octagonal black
lantern room. So it's like, you know, a cone,
but then it flares out again, which is kind of
special. Sounds classy. It has a keeper's duplex
for the principal and first assistant. And what
I would describe as a standalone studio apartment
for the second assistant, which by my calculations
was only 168 square feet. One room. That is small.
It was like 16 by, you know, whatever, 10 feet
or something. Like some variation of that. I
don't think you could do anything but sleep.
Honestly. That's what I'm like. That's crazy.
It's like a shed. Exactly. It looked like a little
shed. So I pulled up a picture. They got a really
nice duplex set up there. And there's a chance
that this little house in the background is.
This is a classy spread. Yeah. This is a classy
spread here. I like this. First off, Lighthouse
and I think the Oil House probably. The service
room. Excuse me. The service room. Which was
added later. It wasn't there at first. They're
in the perfect shape of an L. Oh my gosh. Lighthouse
Lowdown -esque. The Lighthouse Lowdown, which
you may notice that's our symbol. And also the
house is a classy bitch too. I don't know what
it is. Just looking at it. It's got, what's it
called? Chimneys? No, the thing over the window.
I won't know. It's eluding me now, but there's
a thing that's structural when you have brick.
Like a big stone over the top. Sometimes you
use a beam or a piece of iron in modern construction.
And it carries the load of the bricks around
the window opening. And these are made of what
looks like limestone. Yeah. Really nice look
contrasting the darker. And the outdoor porches
are nice. It's very evenly, very symmetrical
straight down the front. I like it. Is it for
sales on Zillow? It's raised. Shoot. So anyway,
58 foot tall, white, pretty nice. Very nice tower.
Unless you're the second assistant and then it's
maybe not so nice. You better be a single man.
Put you under the stairs. When the first head
keeper moved in in late April 1904, when they
finished construction, the floors to the duplex
were not in yet when he moved in. They didn't
have the floors done. And he wrote in the logbook,
quote, I took charge of the station today at
1030 and found the station in good condition
or as good as can be expected under the circumstances.
As the floors of the dwelling are not finished,
decided to live for the present in the workman's
quarters. Captain Hunter of number 10 station
has shown every kindness possible and gave a
very cordial welcome. End quote. So the life
-saving station and the keepers appear to be
in good standing, which is nice. Yeah, even with
no floors. You'd think the floor, what do you
mean it's not done? Yeah, it's like. Can you
see the structure below? Like unlivable. Are
you missing floorboards? Right. Is it that you
cannot go into the house? Because otherwise,
why would you live in a service room? I open
the door and there's no floor. Anyhow, that's
interesting, living in the service room. And,
well, I mean, like they finished it within the
year. So it was just like when he moved there.
The station is open from what I think is May
to November. So the rest of the time it's so
snowy that it doesn't matter. You know, like
the lake's frozen. They just close the lighthouse.
And so they tend to get there early before the
light has to be turned on because there's so
much to do before the station comes back on.
So I think that's kind of what happened here
is he showed up really early and was like, okay,
well, they're not. Quite done. I've never thought
about that before. Well, because they even said
construction stopped in like December or something.
They just couldn't do it anymore. And they were
like, oh, we were so close, but the season's
over. And so we have to just come back in a few
months to finish adding floors. I'd be really,
I mean, I know that's what we're doing now, but
I'd be really interested to hear some more. history
on like coming to the station, even let's say
after it's built and a fully established a couple
of years later for a seasonal deployment, you
come out and you you're commissioning a lighthouse.
So you have to get the light working, the mechanics
going, repair things, um, all before starting.
And then as the normal story that we know is
that it's so much work to maintain a lighthouse
and grounds. So I can imagine what kind of preparations
involved. After it being like totally unattended,
frozen for months. Interesting. Yeah, it's pretty
cool. Never thought about that. After they got
a confirmation from Whitefish Point, the solid
red fourth order Fresnel lens was lit May 5th,
1904. So it's kind of fun. They have to like
communicate with other lighthouses. Like, am
I good to turn on? I'm on. So cute and fresh.
A service building was built and connected to
the tower by a short walkway, which we have seen
on our screen here. It's very classic. Classy.
It's just like, you know, Curituck and Body Island
and all that. So I've always liked them. Especially
in the early 1900s for a light to not have one
in the first place and then add one, you know?
Like, what was the, what was, was it easier?
I think it makes it easier. To build the lighthouse
and then build an add -on. Well, all these construction
projects to build a lighthouse, they never go
smooth. Yeah. What was the one, Absecon Light,
where they had dewatering and they had to build
train tracks just to get materials there? All
that is to say, there's all these stories where
it's enough to get the project going and the
lighthouse running. And then I bet you they'd
be like, well, it'd be nice if our oil storage
was closer. to the lighthouse so we don't have
to carry it as far so it's more accessible what
about a storm so i think these are additions
that are really useful and common but they're
not always included in that first construction
yeah also the cost get it up get it started and
then you can start worrying about other stuff
yeah maybe but the same time they added this
they added 750 feet of cement walkway and a landing
crib so just to make it easier to get around
which I can understand that. Absolutely. Oh,
yeah. So this is a little bit later on, but you
can see they had some of those groins that I
talked about in a past episode. Yeah, for erosion,
right? Yeah. So they had a big problem with that,
too, but it wasn't talked about too much. It
was just like a keeper's wife that I'm going
to talk about here in a second. She purchased.
No, I don't know how many. I think it was like
34 of. this coastline or like maybe 24 it was
either 24 or 34 and by the time they retired
it had been reduced to like 11 oh my gosh yeah
because of erosion so there is a big problem
all the way around so let's remind some listeners
who weren't there for the first i think we talked
about on martha's vineyard if i recall we talked
about these growing right no martha's vineyard
was a long time ago i thought i talked about
them At Whitefish Point, which I guess would
make sense. Oh, it might have been. Yeah, because
it's the same area. So it's like a pier made
of riprap? Yeah, they're like wooden piles, basically,
that just go out into the ocean. Staked into
the water, into the sediment. It's just supposed
to break up, I think, the impact of the waves
coming in so they don't suck out quite as much
sand. And this photo we're looking at now shows
kind of the aerial view with six of those I can
see. It looks like six of those groins. And the
space where the lighthouse and the site is constructed
is kind of out away from the trees in the only
beach that's visible. So I bet you that was the
concern is, oh, this little elbow that we're
on is going to be gone. Yeah, and they have some
walls built up trying to stop all that. cool
it's definitely a problem but it's still the
lighthouse itself is still standing today but
i i'm pretty sure if you look at photos it's
like right on the edge shame but even with these
updates like adding all the walkways and the
landing crib and everything it was still really
difficult to get to the station at all and you
know you and i just looked at the picture um
if anybody's watching our youtube channel it's
like Even today, it is in the middle of nowhere.
It's in a wildlife reserve. So there's absolutely
no, there's like one road that goes to it. Since
they relit in May, I think, they would have to
come back in April. And even then, everything
was still covered in snow. Cold, yeah. So in
1933, a newspaper article posted that the first
assistant keeper, quote, looks forward to an
adventuresome trip to the station, which will
be made by driving as far as Eckerman. Don't
know where that is. Taking a stage from there
north to Whitefish and then making a 20 mile
snowshoe trip to the Chris Point Lighthouse.
Oh my gosh. 20 miles. Like to go through all
this traveling that it's like you drive, you
take a, what a stage, like a stage coach. I assume
a horse drawn carriage. Yeah. And then snowshoe
30 miles, 20, 20 miles. Is that silly to say
that they were driving a horse carriage in the
1930s? Well, they. I mean, in rural parts, maybe
cars. Well, yeah, they had cars, but they weren't
that common. No, they weren't very tough. My
grandparents, I want to get sidetracked, but
just a quick comment. There are stories to be
told about early cars. Um, and my grandparents'
family, really interesting in the state of Washington.
But, uh, well, let's go back to 20 miles on snowshoe.
Like, are you stopping in the middle or no? I
don't know. I don't know. How much can a healthy
human cover? I think if you were an athlete,
like if you were someone who ran marathons, that
type of, like you trained regularly, you could
do it in a day. But it would be a long day because
an average walking speed is about three miles
per hour. And that's not snowshoeing. That's
walking on clean pavement. So it would be a full
day of endurance if you did it in one. I've only
snowshoed one time. Have you ever done it? No.
Well, you're not much of a hiker. I was going
to say you might like it. No, I feel like I've
snowshoed before. Because we used to visit my
aunt and uncle in Monument, Colorado all the
time. Yeah, nice. And when we were kids. And
I feel like we've snowshoed. At least one time.
Yeah. I've had some experience with it because
it's actually kind of hard. It is. You have to
spread your legs. Yes. You're walking with these
giant feet and then like your legs get really
tight, your hips and stuff. You have to extend
like you're walking like a cowboy. Cowboy. Cowboy.
Extra cowboy. Ready to pull on those revolvers.
But anyways, that's kind of crazy. Quite the
journey. Especially if you had like a wife and
kids, like are they, are they with you? You don't
have a wife and kids. I mean, but they do. Not
snowshoeing 20 miles. Well, I can tell you. They
come out when the weather's nicer, I bet. I can
tell you, oh, you're so right. They would come
a little later. Okay. Yeah, I can see that. But
I was going to talk about Joseph N. Singleton,
who served from 1923 to 1939. So that's a solid,
like, over 15 years. He and his wife, Martha,
lived at the lighthouse with their four sons,
usually referred to as the lighthouse kids, like
in town and stuff. And the family were well -known
trappers, hunters, and... fisherman and Martha
was noted as winning a fishing contest six miles
off the lighthouse in 1939 with a 31 pound trout.
I'm like, hell yeah. That's awesome. She's like,
and I cooked it too. One year, a government,
I just have like some stories from because they
stayed there the longest and you know, the lighthouse
kids. Yeah. Anytime there are lighthouse kids,
there ends up being a ton of stories told because
it's like a huge part of how they grew up and
now we're really interested in what that was
like. So yeah, we get to hear a lot about it
from lighthouse kids. But one of the years, a
government construction crew working at Chris
point helped 17 year old Tom, who was the second
oldest of the lighthouse kids to build a 24 foot
fish tug that he named laughs dream. And often
Tom had to beach the tug. to avoid, like, all
the sudden changes that happened in Lake Superior.
So, like, he'd go out fishing or whatever with
his brothers, and then all of a sudden it would
be stormy, and he'd have to just beach it. Tom
and Jack, who was usually with him, I think it
was the older, but I don't know that for sure,
I guess, the oldest son. Yeah. They would make
for Two Hearts Lifesaving Station, which was
a little bit, I think, east. Let me check. A
little bit west from Crisp Point. So the closest
life -saving station that wasn't where they came
from. They would aim the tug for that because
it's safer to beach where you're going to be
rescued. So at least there was a pardon to do
that. But they would wait until the boat hit
bottom before jumping off, holding onto an oar
to stay afloat. And then the crew at the life
-saving station would come and get them from
the water. And on one instance, the keeper of
the Two Heart Station called the boy's father
and said, quote, I wish them damn boys of yours
would drown and get it over with. We're tired
of pulling them out of the lake. I'm like, I
bet at the time that was acceptable. Why is he
quoted? Dad is like, I'm going to write this
down. Just in case, you know. It's like the bad
guys in all of the Scooby -Doo. Those meddling
kids. Goddamn lighthouse kids. Like, think about.
How dramatic these rescues were when we talk
about them in life -saving stations. And they
have to get in the water. It's probably cold.
They're using all this equipment. But it's basically
like doing drills over again. It would be, though,
annoying if you're saving the same kids. The
same kids. Come on. Why do you keep doing this?
And they're like, oh, we'll always be saved.
You're going to help us every time. So he's just
like, I wish they would drown. I wish your kids
would die. Rough. Those are just some fun stories
told by Tom himself. You know what year that
was, that last one? It didn't say. It didn't
say. Sometime in their 15 years there somewhere.
Before the Coast Guard took over. 1939 is when
they were done. But speaking of, Chris Point
was electrified and automated in 1941. And so
I do think that there was a Coast Guard keeper
there for just those two years. And then it was
automated. 1965, the Coast Guard raised all the
buildings on the station aside from the lighthouse
and its attached service room. So unfortunately,
our duplex is no more. Which I'm glad we have
a picture of it because it's pretty nice. It's
like slightly gothic. Yeah. You know? It also
makes sense, like 30 years unattended to. Mm
-hmm. Because the Coast Guard. It doesn't serve
any navigational purpose, so. Yeah, once the
story goes, right, once the Coast Guard automates
a lighthouse, they don't maintain anything except
for the light itself, right? Right. And even
then, like, usually they're not doing work on
the tower. It's just the actual light itself.
Yeah, the beacon or the. Yeah. And if the light
becomes too dangerous to access, then they just
put a light off the coast. And that's usually
the end of the lighthouse. Ohio couple Dawn and
Nellie Ross saw the abandoned lighthouse traveling
in 1988 and were immediately taken with it. And
they immediately moved to the Upper Peninsula
and started the Chris Point Light Historical
Society. So it was love at first sight. And we've
got some... Serious action taken immediately,
which we love those kind of people. Yeah. We
need those people for our lighthouses. The Coast
Guard decommissioned the light in 1992, which
made it really easy for the society to get a
lease in 1994. Looks good. Here's a close to
current photo. The service room has been rebuilt
by this point and it's got a red roof. So I don't
know if this was like before they had finished
or something, because in this picture it's black.
Since then, society rebuilt the service room
and the Foghorn building and reestablished the
light as a private guide to navigation. So I'm
pretty sure that means the Coast Guard no longer
has anything to do with it. Unofficial. Yeah.
And what drew me into this lighthouse in the
first place was its red cupola, even though the
rest of the lantern room is black. Yeah. And
I can't find if it's always been red or if it
was added later because I was looking at some
pictures of it when it was. really decrepit like
before they formed the society and everything
the 80s maybe yeah and it i was like oh the cupola
is black but then i zoomed in and i'm like kind
of got a red tint to it so it was never mentioned
before this and i so there's no tracking of when
this got a red cupola it might have been from
the beginning but it's i don't i don't think
we've seen anything like that so no red cupola
black lantern body lantern room And rails. And
then we've seen this a couple times, but I really
like the flared. Yeah, the flared top. Actual
tower. Pretty cool. It's nice that they've taken
care of it. Someone's taken care of it this whole
time. And it's a classic lighthouse. It's not
like, oh, yeah, the lantern's on the ground over
here. That's the tower. That happens. This is
really nice. Right. So you said they painted
the roof red on the rebuilt. Oh, there you go.
Pulled up another photo. Image. That's a little
bit more current. But yeah, they painted the
roof to match the cupola. It's just hard to tell
with colors because the history goes back so
far. And then when it gets close enough for good
documentation, it's old. And so you're like,
what did it look like in its heyday when everything
was in black and white or sepia? Yeah. Yeah,
you can't always, especially color photos. The
erosion plan has changed. Looks like they do
some riprap. Yeah, but see how close it is? Yeah,
there's not much land left. Before we had this
little outcropping, and sure enough, it's...
You don't think it's been moved, right? That
wasn't in the history? No, it hasn't. That's
a big deal. I would love to hear from someone
in the area about that nature preserve. Oh, wildlife
preserve. Wildlife preserve. Because those are
different than... I listen to a podcast, National
Forests and Wilderness. Like what the terminology
is for all of that. But up here, I bet you there's
some really wild stuff because not only is it
a preserve that appears large, but it's north
and on the lake. Yeah. So it can support different
wildlife. Yeah. And on top of that, people don't
stick around in the winter. So things probably
take over a lot easily there. Really cool. So
beautiful. Really nice. I wondered, uh, there
must be a road out there today. Yeah. There's
one road, which they put on their website, the
Chris point, um, historical society. They have
on their website that it's like you, you can
drive, but then in the winter, this is a snowmobile
route. Number eight and no driving when there's
snow. So just a whole nother world that we're
part of. I was going to say it'd be a fantastic
motorcycle ride. I bet. Oh yeah. On a, on an
altering lots of trees and not a Harley, but.
I bet you come by lots of bears. Or moose. I
bet so. Meese. Moose. Moose is plural and singular,
right? I think so, yeah. It's like deer. Yeah.
Catch any deers? Yeah. This is really pretty.
Yeah. Nowadays, you can visit the lighthouse
between 10 a .m. and 6 p .m. any time of year
besides the winter, obviously. Right now, they're
doing an internal restoration. So they're closed
Monday through Thursdays, but still open on the
weekends. Nice. Come give it a look. There must
be a town not far away. Maybe several, you know.
Yeah. It must be more accessible if people are
volunteering out there and keeping it running.
That's true. That's awesome. Good for them. Some
access. I saw they sent out a newsletter. I don't
know how often it is, but. the lighthouse sent
out a newsletter that had like stuff that happened.
So it must be like annual or something, but it
was the one that I saw was 2023 and it was called
the crispy beacon. And then it said underneath,
I like my beacon crispy. Chris point died laughing.
I was like the crispy beacon. I like my beacon.
I mean, I would play into it too. Christopher
crisp. So Chris cakes. Yeah. Crispy beacons.
It's a cute name for a lighthouse. Really cool.
I don't know that we've ever had that description
either of a private aid to navigation. I think
that's cool. We talked about it. We talked about
that briefly at the very beginning of our podcast
where I was like, what's the difference between
a private and a public aid to navigation? And
now we know. But at the time, I didn't know.
We needed somebody like Ralph in our emails telling
us the answers to all of our brain fart questions.
Is it Krugler? Yeah. Thank you, Ralph Krugler.
For always being our spout of information, which
is nice because there's a lot of times that I
research history buoys and I'm like, by the time
we have to record, I won't be able to find who
I need to ask to like really clarify. I'm like,
I want to know everything. So it's hard because
I'm like, who's the expert on this that I could
hunt down that's like, tell me everything there
is to know about the light list or, you know,
whatever. It's nice to have people listening
that are also knowledgeable on the subject and
can point us in the right direction sometimes.
Absolutely. Absolutely. And that's Chris Point
Lighthouse. It's Vince's 30th birthday tomorrow,
everybody. You better hit the little clapping.
The end of your 20s. This is your last day in
the 20s, which I've heard the 30s are the best
decade. Will be the best decade yet. I am looking
forward to my 30s. Okay. It's funny thinking
about my 20s. Like 20 was so long ago. And then
thinking, you know, that period of time. And
the one before that was 10 to 20. Yeah. Which
that is what concerns me. Because like 10 to
20. What can change in these 10 years? Way longer.
Way longer than 20 to 30 would be. I am hopeful
that life will bring a lot of fun things, 30
to 40. I'll keep you on your toes. Lighthouse
hose. You know, I heard a, no, don't go too far.
This, I don't want to keep, this is supposed
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