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Happy National Lighthouse Day. Finally got a great picture of the Barnegat Lighthouse this year when we went on July 20th. My brother, his girlfriend, and I also went up into it. I'm glad I had the experience but I definitely would never do it again. lol
Barnegat lighthouse 7/18/2023
Barnegat lighthouse my beloved... May ole Barney have a moment on ur page?
Barnegat Lighthouse
Barnegat Light, New Jersey, United States
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Constructed: 1835
Automated: 1927
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Barnegat Lighthouse - New Jersey - USA (by Peter Miller)
The rest of the Long Beach Island NJ trip pics (sequel to yesterday’s post).
Top: my friend Bill’s great shot of the Barnegat Lighthouse. Love the sun illuminating the top like that.
Sunset on the second day -- more delicate, more varied. Just as pretty. (The other days it was overcast, no sunsets; and the last day was the sunset at the lighthouse.)
Perfect beach-walking at low tide, my favorite thing. Water was still so lovely and warm.
Barnegat Lighthouse; Old Barney. Fall foliage and juniper. Terribly framed pic of a new (to me) statue of a Lighthouse Keeper, dedicated to “the Lighthouse Keepers of the world”. (I thought I had it set on a different aspect ratio, so a bunch of my nicer sunset pics at the end got cut off like this, and I was mad.) Barnegat Light dates from 1859; it’s 172 feet tall. You can climb to the top; but not on the day we were there. (217 steps; finally climbing it by yourself as a kid was a rite of passage.)
At bottom, reflection of the sunset, looking east across the Barnegat Inlet to the ocean. You can clearly see the long jetty built WAY out there, on the LBI side; there is one north of the inlet as well, on the Island Beach side. They help keep the channel open. Located just within Barnegat bay is a port for commercial fishing vessels, plus a Coast Guard station, so it’s an important inlet.
Not pictured: got to watch a whole bunch of dolphins taking advantage of the fish runs just offshore in the mornings, from the deck. And I mean like... 10 yards offshore. REALLY close. I have come to realize that, not being a morning person, and our family house not having a view of the ocean, I never knew dolphins were such a regular sight! It was very cool to watch them fishing, and occasionally body-surfing the waves. But I didn’t have a good camera with me and my phone’s zoom wasn’t up to the task. (I have some pics where *I* know that dark blotch there is a dolphin, but you know.)
Anyway, it was lovely to be in familiar places again. We’re already talking about going back next year.
Twitch 7-pack for 6/22
ORB is a Super Mario Bros speedrunning joke, the light-house is The Barnegat Lighthouse, Ness and Mr. Saturn are from Earthbound... I like grilled cheese. As always, if you like my art you can commission me for Twitch emotes (or other work) at https://www.fiverr.com/unnatural20
I painted the Barnegat Lighthouse on a wee little canvas. The painting is about the size of a post-it