Antigua

Our tour in Antigua was a helicopter tour of Montserrat. We saw some new pyroclastic flow -



the edge of it where it met the ocean turned the ocean to steam, and buildings that were in the way were burning, sending up plumes of smoke.



The only thing we saw there that was in the least like a lighthouse was abandoned sugar mills in the Exclusion Zone



But I did take a photo of something that may be a lighthouse from the ship when it was docked in Antigua



I think this is the Sandy Island lighthouse.

When I looked at the Lighthouse Directory, I found that I had another photo from a previous trip that was lighthouse related. That was a photo of the Black Swan which was a lightship, and has been converted to give tourists a Pirate Ship experience.



This black with white trim ship was (before it was converted to a faux pirate ship) originally named Rana and berthed at Hadsund, Denmark. Unfortunately, I was just taking photos of the harbor in general so it isn't that good a photo of the ship.

There is also another lighthouse in St. John's, but I didn't see it.

I decided to organize my photos of Antigua and came upon this one



Well -- what is that? It looks like a lighthouse doesn't it?

This is the same picture cropped



So what do you do in a case like that? I go to the Lighthouse Directory

That tells me that the St. John's Light was built in 1905 and was intended as a lighthouse, but never activated.

Very interesting, thank you for sharing!

Bob

Rosalie, It looks like they built the light too far from the shore to be of any use. That and more housing between it and the shore really nixed it need!

Great pics !!!

Rosalie, John and I took a walk while we were in St. John's to check out the lighthouse. It's pretty much just a rusty looking shell in not a very nice area.

My non-lighthouse friends thought I was a bit "wacko" for taking them along to see this lighthouse.

No Lorie, just one of us.


Good job Rosalie, look what you've uncovered for us.