A trip to Valentia Island is not complete without a visit to the lighthouse on Cromwell Point. The lighthouse is still used to guide vessels through the northern entrance of Valentia Harbour past Harbour Rock. There’s a guided tour of the lighthouse including of course a run down of the history of the area, and…

Ballycotton Lighthouse, September 2021.

This imposing lighthouse sits at the mouth of Malaga harbour. It was built in 1817, damaged by earthquakes and the Spanish civil war and is operating automatically since 1993.

Roche’s Point Lighthouse, as seen from Fennell’s Bay across Cork Harbour. October 2017.

Playa Blanca, Lanzarote. January 2017.

This is a lighthouse to the west of Playa Blanca on the island of Lanzarote. This was my first time to visit the lighthouse and it was very windy. My camera resting on an unextended tripod almost blew over! Then there are the tourists, who insist on driving right up to the building and parking…

Roche’s Point Lighthouse, at the mouth of Cork Harbour. I shot this from Camden Fort Meagher last weekend. It was a glorious day and as you can see the fort has a commanding view of the harbour! More about the lighthouse can of course be read on Wikipedia.

Yellow lighthouses at the mouth of Reykjavik Harbour in Iceland.

Steps lead down to an observation point and small light at the tip of Mizen Head, County Cork.

A very specialized device sits in a cupboard in the lighthouse at Mizen Head, County Cork. I have to wonder why a “Gamma Radiation Survey Meter” would be needed in a lighthouse at the southern tip of Ireland though. Not much call for radioactivity detectors in this country. Nuclear powered lighthouse anybody? PS. This is…

A lighthouse stands guard near Baltimore in Co Cork.