We continued our little tour of Staten Island after lunch at a local diner.

The Great Beds Lighthouse was our next stop. We drove over to the South shore are of Staten Island and parked the buses and walked down to the beach to get a close look at the Lighthouse.

Here's a photo of it-




We left there and drove on over to Prince's Bay lighthouse. this one has it's Lantern Room removed and at one point had a statue of Mary in it's place. The house and area was at one point the Summer Home for the Cardinal of New York, it is no longer though.

The Lighthouse was replaced by a light on a pole. Here's a photo of each of them-







We left there and went on our merry way to the last Lighthouse of the day- Elm Tree Lighthouse. It's one of the plainest Lighthouses anywhere. Here's a photo for you-




It's at the end of what was Miller Field an airstrip on Staten Island used in the Second World War and now part of Gateway National Park.

Elm Tree may not be impressive but if you walk about 300 yards from it you can look out and see 4 Lighthouses on a clear day- Coney Island, West Bank, Old Orchard and Romers Shoal.

This completed the Lighthouse portion of our day. We did have one more important stop before going back to Ft Wadsworth to get our cars.

Mike who had arranged the tour both now and in October lives in the area and volunteers at Sandy Hook. He had brought some goodies from a local bakery a few times and there were many fans of those goodies so they talked him into stopping there.

You would have thought it was a Lighthouse Gift Shop- just about everybody came out with many little and some big boxes from the Bakery or the chocolate Store next door.

We found our way back to Ft Wadsworth said our goodbyes and left for home.All in all a grerat day- nice weather, nice people , nice goodies and the piece de resistance a bunch of Lighthouses.

Dennis