Seal Island Light Museum Part 1

I must say, after a LONG day in the car, and a few failed attempts at seeing a few lighthouses due to uncontrollable issues (aka FOG!), the visit to the Seal Island Museum was a nice treat.

This museum is not (and was never) technically a Lighthouse. It is a replica of the original Seal Island Lighthouse. We were able to go inside this light and look around so I have quite a few pictures, so to keep my post from being too photo heavy and just plain long I am going to break this up in to two blog entries. First we will take a look at the lighthouse itself.For not being a real Lighthouse they at least found a nice little spot to put this light. Just off the road and up a little hill, a little bit inland, peeking out above the trees, it was refreshing to see a Lighthouse structure not hidden away by fog. This light is fairly large, classic red and white rings, and the interesting part of the light was in fact the light itself. The shape of the lantern makes this structure its own.

The cool part about this visit was the ability to go inside the Lighthouse. Inside there are some really cool artifacts for the Museum (I will go in to more detail on some items inside in tomorrow’s post). Naturally we all wanted to go to the top of the light – first speed bump, if you want to go to the top there is a small fee but well worth the price. Secondly the last two sets of steps are open back steal stairs. Now I know to most visitors that wouldn’t pose a problem but to me that was the end of the venture to the top. I am terrified of open backed stairs, but it was pretty sad that all of my kids were fearless and went up without me. lol

Now what you see at the top isn’t an overly spectacular view, however it is cool to see the surrounding area at a bird’s eye level. The other neat thing about going to the top of this light is the light itself. You can get right up close with the inner workings of the lighting unit and see how it all is put together.

So there you have the Seal Island Museum Lighthouse. As I said before I will be back tomorrow with some photos of items that are inside the light and some more info on the museum itself, so make sure to come back for the ‘full story’ J Until then…..

Happy & Safe Travels,

~Jenn