Each light actually has it's own signal. Pemaquids is every 6 seconds. They use different times and patterns I believe. You'd still need to know what each one means though! :)
o that was kind of you to give history like that i didn't expect you to! thanks:) So how did the sailers know which lighthouses were the 'warn away' ones and which ones were the guiding ones?! :)
Okay, Cliff. Tiny bit of history for ya. I enjoy the history as well.
This is Pemaquid lighthouse located on the coast of Maine on the Pemaquid peninsula. It's the lighthouse pictured on the Maine state quarter. The shore line up there is VERY rocky and tides are about 10 foot, so the water around there is very dangerous for ships. Pemaquid Light was actually the first lighthouse to be put up to warn ships to "stay away", as most were guiding points of which direction to sail. (Or so my dad tells me anyway!)
The station was built in 1827, and this tower went up in 1835. It was manually operated until 1935 by light keepers who stayed in the attached home.
Today the light keeper's home is a small fisherman's museum and well worth the couple of bucks to get in. A few years ago they opened the tower too, so you can make the steep climb up there to look out. I have several pics in my portfolio of the light and there's one or two looking out from the tower as well.
I like this shot of the lighthouse!, although i'd also have liked some history or info, but that is probably not important on a photography site. Thanks for being so kind to my amature pics too! :>)
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