Amen to your review, Bob! You mentioned the Florida landscapes on the HL pieces well, you should come to this site. The beaches are prisitine and I hear the shelling is out of this world. My Cape St. George will get signed during the Regional on April 1st.

This light should have crashed into the sea many years ago...but as you said, it hung on. Many articles have been written about it in the newspapers here in FL and quite frankly there have been many skeptics about its survival...but, those who wanted it righted and saved have won out. Getting the necessary materials and equipment to the site is not easy either.

My mission several weekends ago was to go to the island and walk to the light. The research that I had done did not indicate that there are two St George islands. Big and little. The lighthouse is on little and is seperated from big making it impossible to get there any other way but by boat or seaplane. Because of the currents, it is difficult to get out of a boat near the light, so lighthouse lovers and shell seekers must disembark on the bay side and walk a mile to the light. Now, I have a reservation for Memorial Day weekend to go on a boat trip. Hope the mosquitoes won't carry me away, but I am looking forward to the trip and seeing the light.
Derith