The Los Angeles Light has green lenses. ART

Green lanterns are common in a certain body of water.

The body of water is a river, and also a boundary.

The Savannah River on St. Patricks Day?

(A guess, but you can see 3 lights along it, and it is the border of SC and GA.)

...uh...I don't think so. Good one!

Niagara River

St Lawrence River

Farther east Eric. Perhaps this is a bad question. A book of mine said this is the traditional color for lanterns on this waterway, but in looking at Lighthouse Directory I am only finding two, maybe there used to be more. Still green lanterns aren't all that common, so maybe 2 is significant.

In that case the two Dalhousie's range lights are significant..

The body of water I was speaking of was the St. Lawrence River. You are right Paul, your 2 are equally significant and so its your question.

(I promise to have a good question ready next time before I answer a question)

You did read my post where I said ST. Lawrence river and said it was wrong. What's up with that?!!!!

Your up Eric..

No, Eric. We posted at almost the same time and I missed your answer.

Ok that freaked me out as you did say "No Eric."

Oh Well A question... a question...

This lighthouse was gutted by fire in 1959. The house was torn down and all that remains is the formally attached tower. The tower is open for climbing. It's always open.

Peninsula Point Lighthouse, MI

We have been there, but I couldn't find my image quickly.. You can't find the light quickly either, it is a little bit of a drive off the beaten path to get there and nothing else to see nearby.

Yes that is correct.

Yes it is a bit of the beaten path. One can see the Minneapolis Shoal just south of the point with a good pair of binoculars.

What's the largest lighthouse built on the Great Lakes?

Largest how? Tallest...greatest square foot of ground covered...

Not tallest, largest! Probably cubic feet..

Is it Sand Hills Light in the U.P. of Michigan?

You got it Debbie, your turn to ask..

Sand Hills Lighthouse

Not only was Sand Hills the largest lighthouse built in the Great Lakes but it was the last manned lighthouse built on the Great Lakes..

Sand Hills Lighthouse

Ok, I took it the last time there was a gap. Anyone want to ask a question?

Here's one. This lighthouse was the fourth built in Alaska.

Mary Island light in 1903

Right, you're up.

Many U.S. lights have animals in their names such as Owl's Head. There are OVER 20 lights with the names of four legged animals in their name. How many can the trivia players name? Have fun.

MG

Good one! I can only come up with 2. Both in Florida: Alligator Reef and Loggerhead Key.

Maine lights
Moose Peak (Mistake Island)
Bear Island
Deer Island Thorofare
Squirrel Point
Goat Island
Massachusetts light
Deer Island
New York lights
Buffalo Main
Buffalo North Breakwater
Buffalo Harbor South Entrance North Side
Horseshoe Reef
Pennsylvania light
Turtle Rock
Rhode Island lights
Hog Island Shoal
Newport Harbor (Goat Island)
Beavertail
Virginia lights
Wolf Trap
Hog Island
Michigan light
Beaver Head (Beaver Island)
Ohio light
Turtle Island
Washington light
Cattle Point

Add MICHIGAN:
Little Sable
Big Sable Pt
South Fox
Beaver Island Harbor

Don't forget Au Sable. I think thats 26 so far!

Does it have to be existing lights?
Dog Island, FL

My bad

It can still exist or be gone. There are at least 4 more that exist and 3 that don't exist that have not yet been mentioned.

Incidentally, in my original post, the over 20 figure only referred to existing lights, but including non-existing lights, there are over 30 with several of those having already been identified.

If I might make a suggestion, there are quite a number of lights with flying animal names as well as sea animal names which could be started if there is interest. I would be glad to check my records for the approximate numbers of each group.
Last but not least, what do you think of limiting the number of guesses to 2-3 per day per post to allow for more participation? Oops, one other thought is other interesting categories exist such as city names, colors, "edibles" excluding animals, professions, etc. Seems to me this is an interesting way to learn the names of lights that are not as familiar as the well known lights.

Eric, Paul listed Hog Island VA.

Cat Island, MS

Maine
Ram Island
Ram Island Ledge
Whaleback Ledge
New Jersey
Hereford Inlet
Horseshoe Range East Group Rear also Lower Front and Upper Front
Should these count????

Alligator reef, FL

I'm sorry I didn't look close enough.

Washington Skunk Bay

I Think we have beat this thread to death. Here is some more:Horse Island ME,Seahorse Fl, Squirrel Point Me,Turtle Island OH and Wolf Trap VA. Let go on to a new Trivia question. Art

Ok, here's a new trivia question. What light(s) that Forum members have visited in the past may have something to do with the Opportunity Drawing in some shape or manner?

US lights?

us lights, they's lights, everybody's lights.
Sounds like a catchy child's verse, doesn't it?

Roland, you were singing in another thread. I think either you are giddy with spring, maybe giddy with tormenting forum members, or into the cooking sherry. And once again, you didn't answer the question. I think its probably the torment thing.

Here's a really left field guess because you use a pencil to draw. Oak Island. That lighthouse looks like a pencil.

Please use the eraser attached to the pencil and scratch out that answer.

Hmmm!!!!!

Forum members have visited many many lights, but most recently they've been to Sabine Pass, Pass L'outre, New Canel and a few others.

What is the 'oppourtunity drawing?'

If you haven't voted as of yet, this post will explain it.
http://www.lighthousekeepers.com/forums/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=45;t=000092;p=1#000017

Toledo Lighthouse

One of my first lighthouse visits was to the NEW CANAL LIGHTHOUSE in New Orleans before Katrina. I have also visited the site after Katrina. The site was cleaned up and is totally bare. I am a donor to the Save the Lake group. Art

Last thread died 7 days ago after my last response.

New question: What is the most southern lighthouse in the US?

Sand Key, FL is at latitude 24.45394, Port Isabel TX is at 26.07782 but then there is Hawaii!
Napo'opo'o is a post light at latitude 19.47917 while Cape Kumukahi, a skeleton light is at 19.516322. So, it would depend on your definition of lighthouse. I beleive it would be Cape Kumukahi.

Let's not forget that there are 2 lighthouses in Guam, and it is a US Territory and it is south of Hawaii.

You're right, I was wondering about Puerto Rico for the same reason.

My question means within the fifty states.

So its not Cape Kumukahi?

Laura, Although Hawaii is one of the fifty states Cape Kumukahi is not the answer. Some would consider the lighthouse as a minor light, but in most books it is listed as a lighthouse.

Got to disagree with you AZ. You did ask for lighthouse and Cape Kumukahi was a lighthouse in the sense that it had a keepers house, and it was a primary seacost light. The keepers house was destroyed in 1960 by a lava flow that split and went around both sides of the tower. It was a lightstation.

Kalaupapa, HI Latitude 21.20961
We've gotten into the lighthouse definition thing before and I'M sure we will again.

To end debate: Ka Lae light southwest point of Big Island. You can deabate whether it is a lighthouse or not. Note in quote below it is referred to as a lighthouse.

"This is the main and only blinking beacon lighthouse type warning device for the south point in case you are a boat and haven't already recognized that there is land here. Note that the Kalalea Heiau is in front of it so the Hawaiians really had the idea first of putting a navigation marker at this location."

Next question???

Since Laura's answer was Cape Kumukahi which is just down the road I make her the winner. Laura you have the next question. Art

AZ, I think both Eric and I thought you were saying that Cape Kumukahi might not be considered a lighthouse, when I now believe you were talking about Ka Lae. I didn't answer Ka Lae because I looked at the current light, it was a post light and I figured it wouldn't be considered a lighthouse. However, your answer made me look back at it again and it is very interesting. While the first light in 1906 was " A lens-lantern supported by a thirty-four-foot wooden mast" the second in 1929 was "a new forty-five-foot-steel tower was installed at the point, and its beacon was connected to a wind turbine making Ka Lae Light one of just three wind-powered lighthouses in the U.S. Lighthouse Service. A gasoline-powered generator was also located at the station to provide electricity for the dwelling and backup power for the light." The third and present light "thirty-two-foot concrete pole" was erected in 1972. So, at one point it had a lighthouse and keepers house.
For the next question, why don't we just stay here. What are the other two wind-powered lighthouses?

Quotes are from Lighthouse Friends

Rose Island in RI and Ladies Delight in ME-??

I had Rose Island and Boston Harbor, but looked and you are right. In the 1930s Ladies Delight was powered by a wind driven generator. Your question Sandy.

Oak Island Lighthouse, NC is the second tallest concrete tower (148' tall) built by the United States. What is the tallest U.S.-built concrete tower?

Ponce de Leon, FL or Big Sable, MI?

Nope.

At 162' tall, she sits today as an abandoned decaying monument to another era.

Morris Island SC Art

Nope.

Location was originally discovered by sailors from Christopher Columbus’s 1504 expedition.

I got it, not a US light but a US built light; therefore it is the Navassa lighthouse in the West Indies. Art

Yep!

http://www.lighthousedepot.com/lite_digest.asp?action=get_article&sk=2802

Your turn, Art.

Sandy

P.S. Took me the better part of 6 years to find details on this light and happened to read all about it in a Lighthouse Digest publication while on vacation this past February. The source for information on Oak Island to compliment a picture taken in October of 2002 indicated "Oak Island--the second tallest cement tower built by the U.S. . . ."

We all know that Michigan has the most lighthuoses,of those with lighthouses which state has the fewest? What are the lights? Art

Mississippi

The Biloxi Lighthouse

Mississippi used to have several, but only has the one light today.