Hope Town Lighthouse

Monday 24th - We return to the lighthouse in the morning and climb the 120 feet to the top although we can't get outside onto the railing. The lighthouse is the only one left using kerosene for the light and one of three left that are manual. The mantle sits inside a Fresnel lens array that gives out five narrow beams of light that rotate around every 15 seconds although here I should add that important bahamian adverb "usually". The mechanism that rotates the light has to be wound up every couple of hours so though it's an impression sight when you go to bed with the narrow beams sweeping through the night warning seafarers of the reef, when I got up about 4am for a pee. It had stopped rotating. I think it's a volunteer operation.

Had a a cracking sail heading for Treasure Cay with a reef in the main and jib. After a while though we decide to put into Orchid Bay on Great Guana.