We did not decide to drive up to the lighthouse until we were already in Duluth. As the tour guide talked to us I began to sketch this view of the shore side of the lighthouse from the trail. The tour group had disappeared down the trail when I stopped sketching and ran to catch up with them. Not your normal view of a lighthouse - from the shore side. This is one of the more famous lighthouses in the world I suppose. You always see pics of it. I had postcards of it as a kid, probably before it was a state park. Never have actually been there till this trip with our daughter...
The small building on the left is the oil shed, the larger one houses the fog horn. Everything was built with brick on stone, and is kept immaculate-- your tax dollars at work!
Here are some notes and sketches along the North Shore and at the lighthouse. There are some unusual names, like Castle Danger, MN. The sketches are of the keeper's house, as well as the oil shed from the front, which was a very big deal in the early 20th century when all the supplies including the oil for the lamp in the lighthouse came up the cliff. You also see the kid that was our tour guide - a very sharp Minnesotan" whose name first name was Zender.
Once there was a fog that lasted 11 days, during which time the diesel fog horns blasted continually; every 20 seconds there was a 2 second blast. So the way I figure, there was about 47,000 blasts of which everyone stationed there listened to day and night for 11 days!
| 60 | Min / hr | ||
| 3600 | Sec / min | ||
| 24 | Hr / day | ||
| 86400 | Sec / day | ||
| 4320 | Blasts / day | ||
| 11 | total days | ||
| 47520 | Total blasts on fog horn in 11 full days.... |
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