Puerto Ferro Lighthouse

After searching on the internet for about an hour, I finally found a close-up photo of Vieques' endangered lighthouse, Puerto Ferro. This picture shows the immediate danger the lighthouse is in, as the tower is crumbling and there are large holes in the walls of the keeper's quarter.
Puerto Ferro Lighthouse, 2048x1536
There is also a virtual tour of the lighthouse, but, I can't get it to work. You can try at http://southeast.fws.gov/vieques/media.html

Zachary, don't think it's you, Bud. First time to the page I saw an image box but no image. Says you need their IPIX plug in so I went ahead and installed that. They say you need to close browser and re-open for it to kick in. Only thing it did different was to show an IPix logo instead of an image place holder. Went ahead and rebooted system to see if that would help - Nope.

So, (a)either the IPx thing is a real piece of junkware or (b) the FWS doesn't have something set up right or (c) there is some convoluted set up you have to do to make it work, in which case you should refer back to (a).

All I got was the IPIX logo also, it's not junkware because I've used it when viewing virtual tours of houses for sale in my neighborhood. You can check to see if it works at http://www.ipix.com/download/activex_ipix.shtml
I e-mailed the webmaster about it, maybe he can fix it.
Maybe if someone was to visit it, they could take pictures from the many holes that unfortunately exist on the building.

Back in 1960-61 I went to Vieques with the Seabees. We camped out on Yellow Beach and Red Beach. I really liked the Red Beach area. Our job was to bring in the Marines on our causeways. Then we spent the next six weeks waiting to put them back on the ships that brought us there. Somewhere around here I have pictures that I took. If I can locate them I will post some. I never knew that there was alighthouse on Vieques. Thanks for pointing that out to us Zachary. Good find. The light looks like the Marines may have used it for target practice. What a shame!

Bert

It could have possibly been used for target practice, but, I just think it's because it's been left unnattended since 1926, when it was discontinued. I read somewhere that there are plans for it's restoration, but, it seems unlikely.
Here are a few other pictures I located of the lighthouse
Port Ferro with it\'s Lantern Room
Port Ferro without it\'s lantern room before it was sealed off
Lighthouse People pics where you can see the modern light
Also, Bert, there are infact 2 lighthouses at Vieques. Port Ferro, which you can visit by obtaining a visitor's pass to get into the USMC Base and Point Mulas Which is in way better shape than Port Ferro and open to the public for climbing.