An Unmapped Route: A Hiker's Blog

Tag: Lighthouses

  • The Nobska Light

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    Nobska Lighthouse, Wood’s Hole Cape Cod Massachusetts. The motorcycle ride out to the lighthouse had worked out perfectly. I arrived not long after sunrise, in the fall season . I could see the ferry leaving Wood’s Hole for Martha’s Vineyard, but I was far from the throng of tourists here. I doubted that any were…

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    snowpackjack
    a sandy path in the foreground center of the image is bordered by green ground cover. The path leads to a white lighthouse and keepers house with a red roof. The sky is overcast at dawn with a faint glow of the rising sun.

  • Beavertail

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    Beavertail Lighthouse, Jamestown, Rhode Island USA. Long before the peninsula was used as a part of the navy’s coastal defense system, early settler’s burned fires on the rugged shore to warn sailors passing the shoals off Beavertail. In 1746, they would build the first lighthouse. That light was destroyed by fire, but upon it’s foundation…

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    snowpackjack

  • The Sakonnet Point Light

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    In the past, we’d pull on the riding boots and leathers, steering the motorcycles out towards Little Compton. It’s open spaces are sprinkled with farm stands that the local growers sell apples and produce to the families that live out here past the noisy cities of Fall River and Newport. In the fall, it’s squash…

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    snowpackjack
    Sakonnet Point Lighthouse- a white sparkplug lighthouse with clouds and blue sky in the background

  • Seeking Judith

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    Point Judith Lighthouse, Narragansett, Rhode Island USA ©lifeasjack.com All rights reserved. Stretching a mile out into the ocean, Point Judith would earn a nickname among mariners as “the graveyard of the Atlantic.” While this moniker has been shared among many locations along the Atlantic seaboard, the Point’s conditions often include heavy seas and dense fog.…

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    snowpackjack
    A red topped lighthouse with out building sits on a stretch of grassy shoreline. A red roofed coast guard station is to the left. The sky is light blue. seas are deep blue with small waves