Lighthouse Register

Nominal range and the honest range

The charts give a nominal range that assumes clear air and a certain lamp intensity.

In haze that useful distance can halve, which is exactly why the fog signals outlived so many of the lamps they stood beside.

Haze off the point, visibility under two miles.
Haze off the point, visibility under two miles.
The bell housing, long retired, left in place as a landmark.
The bell housing, long retired, left in place as a landmark.

More soon.

Looking back toward the mainland from the gallery.
Looking back toward the mainland from the gallery.

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