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I want to be a lighthouse keeper6/8/2023 Recently, I was asked what prompted this interest. It wasn’t until my 20s that the fascination clicked. I had visited a few land lights as a child and probably professed myself bored. It seemed a miracle it could stay standing.īefore I started researching my book, I knew nothing, really, about lighthouses. Rocks smashed the base, clunking and groaning. During a storm, the whole tower would quiver as if caught in an electrical current. Inside, it was stuffy and dark, thick with smells of sweat and tobacco and burned bacon, shutters closed in heavy weather, double windows fastened against waves that could chuck salt-spray 85ft into the air, smacking the panes while you’re drinking your tea. Rooms piled one on top of the other, a couple of strides across and that’s it, no way out, nowhere else to go. Before then, three men lived out there on that distant, hostile post for two months at a stretch.Īll they had was each other and the sea. Today, every lighthouse in the UK is automated: the last to go electric was in 1998. Now peer further, deep into the haze, and on a clear day you might pick out the matchstick vertical of the notorious Wolf Rock, eight nautical miles out, so called because of the howling sound the wind makes as it tunnels between the rocks. Stand at Land’s End and you’ll see the Longships – not too far, only a mile away. Get a rare look inside Lee Broom’s New York penthouse during NYCxDesignįrank Lloyd Wright’s renovated Westhope lists for $7.Tower lighthouses exist like mirages on the horizon. Maison Brummell Majorelle has a birds-eye view of Marrakech’s favourite botanic park Pamela Rosenkranz plants a hot pink tree atop New York’s High Line This red cabin on Canada’s Lake Ontario is a cosy autumn retreatįancy being a lighthouse keeper in Canada? The government is hiringĪlain Prost’s Ferrari F40 is up for auction with no reserve The major snag? You must be residing in Canada, a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident living abroad to be considered. Salary expectations range from $45,241 and $60,707, with an application deadline of 31 December 2023. Applicants need experience operating and repairing mechanical and electrical equipment, such as generators and power tools, and a valid Restricted Operators certificate or higher.ĭay-to-day duties range from reporting weather conditions and relaying radio messages to grounds maintenance of the station and its cistern, refuelling diesel tanks, painting buildings, and testing fire pumps and equipment. While it might sound idyllic, it’s a pretty tough job. Applicants will depart for Victoria, Port Hardy, Tofino, Bella Bella or Prince Rupert – suggesting several roles available to service remote locations such as Trial Island, Triple Island, Quatsino, Cape Beale, and Boat Bluff. The role is for an assistant lighthouse keeper working along British Columbia’s stunning coast and is offered through the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the Canadian Coast Guard. If ‘me time’ and remote locations are your thing, then this posting from the Canadian government for a lighthouse keeper could be right up your street.
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