Tammy,

As for how you go about counting Lighthouses as seen- we apply the term seen very liberally here.

If you saw it, could tell it was a Lighthouse and can later (or at the time) identify it you can count it. does not matter if it was seen with your eyes only or with the help of binoculars or camera lens.

Of course, the closer you can get to a Lighthouse the better, but many it is impossible to do without a plane, boat or in some cases special permission.

You've got to take what you can on some and hope you get a better look at the next one.

I've "seen" 167, but probably 1/3 of them were distant views. What is even more telling is that probably 110 were not able to be entered (either at all or not when I was there).

That's the breaks of Lighthousing.

Keep it up, it grows on you.

Dennis