Sailing with Nine of Cups Lighthouses

s/y Nine of Cups
Lighthouses

We obviously have seen many lighthouses in our
travels and thought we'd share some of them with
you. With the help of Wikipedia, we've also
provided some history and information.

A lighthouse is a tower, building or other type of
structure designed to emit light from a system of
lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire,
and used as an aid to navigation for pilots at sea
or on inland waterways.

Used to mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous
shoals and reefs and safe entries to harbors,
lighthouses can also assist in aerial navigation.
Once widely used, the number of operational
lighthouses has declined due to the expense of
maintenance and replacement by modern
electronic navigational aids.

Perhaps the most famous lighthouse in history is
the Lighthouse of Alexandria, built on the island
of Pharos in Hellenistic Egypt. The name Pharos
is still used as the noun for "lighthouse" in some
languages, for example: Albanian, Catalan and
Romanian (far), French (phare), Italian, Galician
and Spanish (faro), Portuguese (farol), Danish,
Norwegian and Swedish (fyr), Bulgarian (фар),
and Greek (φάρος). The term "pharology" (study
of lighthouses) also derives from the island's name.

The Lighthouse of Alexandria was built in 280
BC to serve as the port's landmark. With a height
variously estimated between 115 and 135 meters
(383 - 440 ft) it was among the tallest man-made
structures on Earth for many centuries, and was
identified as one of the Seven Wonders of the
World by classical writers.

Source: Lighthouse - Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia.mht

Estrecho de Magellanes (Straits of Magellan)
near Punta Arenas, Chile

Paradise Island Light - Nassau, Bahamas

Faro Eclaireurs - Ushuaia, Argentina

Great Stirrup Cay Light - Bahamas

Hopetown Light - Bahamas

Block Island, Rhode Island - USA

Ceru Bontana Light - Bonaire

East Head Harbour Light - Campobello Island

Faro Fuerte Niebla - Valdivia, Chile

Chesapeake Bay

Guayaquil, Ecuador

Faro Gran Roque, Grand Roque, Vz

Swallowtail Light - Grand Mannan Is.

Klein Curacao Light - Bonaire

Swallowtail Light - close up

Nelson Light - Nelson, NZ

Lookout Light - Beaufort, NC

Narragansett Bay off Newport, RI

White Head Light - Maine

Cape Reinga Light - New Zealand

Swakopmund Lighthouse - Namibia
( Thanks, John!!)

Narragansett Bay - Rhode Island

Faro Cayo Elbert - Gran Roque, VZ

Cape Reinga light from at sea - NZ

Puerto Lucia - La Libertad, Ecuador

Cape Point Light - Cape Point, RSA

Kommetje Light - Republic South Africa

Drum Point Light- Solomons, Maryland

Grand Turk Light - Grand Turk

Boca Light - Trinidad

Colonia - Uruguay

Punta del Este - Uruguay

Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

Jose Ignacio - Uruguay

Isla Cubagua - Venezuela

Playa el Faro - Venezuela

More to come as we photograph new
lighthouses in our travels.

Historic lightship - Portsmouth, VA

In waters too deep for a conventional
structure, a lightship was sometimes used
instead of a lighthouse. Most of these have
now been replaced by fixed light platforms
similar to those used for offshore oil drilling.

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