Posted By: rscroope
Can you believe this!!!!!!!! - 08/09/99 03:21 PM
I'm out in Montauk camping last week, and on the last day, I run down to the lighthouse to climb the light. It's 10:15am and I'm standing on line with about a dozen people, waiting for the LH to open at at 10:30.
A discussion starts about LI lighthouses, and all of a sudden I'm giving a quick local seminar, on local LI lighthouses.
Now someone asks me if I've seen any lighthouses on the west coast, GreatLakes or Lake Champlain. I respond no, and tell him I've only been east coast lighthousing so far.
He then takes what appears to be a business card out of his wallet, and says, "you seem to be really into lighthouses, if you ever get to Lake Champlain - check these out."
Now on the card appears two lighthouses - The Forty-Fifth Parallel Lites - Wind Mill Pt and Isle La Motte.
Now here's the punchline! The two gentlemen I'm talking to are Lucky and Rob Clark who own not one but both lighthouses!!!
Rob proceeds to tell me that you can't believe the amount of maintenance that owning a lighthouse entails.
Anyway, there's been discussions about owning, buying, living in, being a lighthouse keeper, etc on this Forum, can you imagine owning 2 lighthouses !
They may have plans to make one a bed and breakfast. I plan to correspond with them so I'll keep you posted.
I'm sure somebody has pictures of these lighthouses? Paul? Rod? St John?
I thought everyone would enjoy this story. It's amazing who you meet lighthousing!
A discussion starts about LI lighthouses, and all of a sudden I'm giving a quick local seminar, on local LI lighthouses.
Now someone asks me if I've seen any lighthouses on the west coast, GreatLakes or Lake Champlain. I respond no, and tell him I've only been east coast lighthousing so far.
He then takes what appears to be a business card out of his wallet, and says, "you seem to be really into lighthouses, if you ever get to Lake Champlain - check these out."
Now on the card appears two lighthouses - The Forty-Fifth Parallel Lites - Wind Mill Pt and Isle La Motte.
Now here's the punchline! The two gentlemen I'm talking to are Lucky and Rob Clark who own not one but both lighthouses!!!
Rob proceeds to tell me that you can't believe the amount of maintenance that owning a lighthouse entails.
Anyway, there's been discussions about owning, buying, living in, being a lighthouse keeper, etc on this Forum, can you imagine owning 2 lighthouses !
They may have plans to make one a bed and breakfast. I plan to correspond with them so I'll keep you posted.
I'm sure somebody has pictures of these lighthouses? Paul? Rod? St John?
I thought everyone would enjoy this story. It's amazing who you meet lighthousing!