The only thing that seems to suit my initial reaction to this Lighthouse Adventure is – OMF!! (Oh My FOG!!). This Fog was like no other Fog I had ever seen! It was think as Peanut Butter…yes I know someone is going to email me and say “thick as Pea Soup” and if that does happen, yes I will respond “you eat what you like and I eat what I like” (if you don’t recognize the movie I am referencing then I apologize as this whole paragraph with have been a big waste of your time. Lol).
Getting back on track, this was the scariest trip out to a lighthouse to date. Sure I expect foggy conditions at times, that partially why there are lighthouses to begin with, but I never expected anything like this! It wasn’t just at the light either. We traveled a good 15 minutes or more on a road where we couldn’t see past our front bumper! I was NOT the best “co-pilot” to have that day, I was freaking out…. Mostly by constantly saying “slow down” even though we were already going 20 under the speed limit.
All of a sudden the “pilot” stopped the van, I asked him what he was doing why were we stopped, I was actually starting to panic as I couldn’t see a thing, then I may have let out a scream as I saw the reason why he stopped. From within the fog I saw a GIANT (that maybe was said a little over dramatically), structure emerge. When I look at the pictures and think back to that moment I will admit it was kinda cool, but in that moment in time I was pretty terrified, and I had ever y right to be. There standing in front of us, fairly close I might add) was this lighthouse, but I couldn’t see the ledge, I couldn’t see where the water was, or how close we were to it, I couldn’t see the road behind us where we had driven in, there was nothing but a bunch of FOG to be seen.
Pilot of course is not happy with where we were and needed to get closer, again I was not being a good co-pilot, but as we got closer the fog began to thin out some and we could see the lighthouse a little better (ok, good call on the Pilots part I guess)…. But it was still thick enough that not a whole lot could be seen around us.
Getting back on track, this was the scariest trip out to a lighthouse to date. Sure I expect foggy conditions at times, that partially why there are lighthouses to begin with, but I never expected anything like this! It wasn’t just at the light either. We traveled a good 15 minutes or more on a road where we couldn’t see past our front bumper! I was NOT the best “co-pilot” to have that day, I was freaking out…. Mostly by constantly saying “slow down” even though we were already going 20 under the speed limit.
All of a sudden the “pilot” stopped the van, I asked him what he was doing why were we stopped, I was actually starting to panic as I couldn’t see a thing, then I may have let out a scream as I saw the reason why he stopped. From within the fog I saw a GIANT (that maybe was said a little over dramatically), structure emerge. When I look at the pictures and think back to that moment I will admit it was kinda cool, but in that moment in time I was pretty terrified, and I had ever y right to be. There standing in front of us, fairly close I might add) was this lighthouse, but I couldn’t see the ledge, I couldn’t see where the water was, or how close we were to it, I couldn’t see the road behind us where we had driven in, there was nothing but a bunch of FOG to be seen.Pilot of course is not happy with where we were and needed to get closer, again I was not being a good co-pilot, but as we got closer the fog began to thin out some and we could see the lighthouse a little better (ok, good call on the Pilots part I guess)…. But it was still thick enough that not a whole lot could be seen around us.
Happy & SAFE Travels!
~Jenn
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