As I stood at the tip of the sand spit at Point No Point Lighthouse, I asked my husband, “What is the point of standing at the point of Point No Point Lighthouse?” Located on the Kitsap Peninsula, I recently added another lighthouse to my bucket list of visiting all the lighthouses in the state […]
Lighthouses
The Tallest Lighthouse in Washington State – Grays Harbor Lighthouse
This past weekend, which happened to be Super Bowl weekend, my husband and I added another lighthouse to my Bucket List of visiting all the lighthouses in the state of Washington. To celebrate our birthdays, we did a weekend getaway to the town of Westport to see the Grays Harbor Lighthouse, the tallest lighthouse in […]
Pharology and the Browns Point Lighthouse
It was at the Browns Point Lighthouse that I discovered that I am a pharologist: “One who studies or is interested in lighthouses.” This lighthouse was also where I learned that “the first lighthouses were towers, built about 2,000 years ago: the Pharos at Alexandria in Egypt, and the Colossus at Rhodes, an island off […]