Category Archives: Lighthouses I have known

Yesterday I got started in the early afternoon and drove the entire length of the forearm of Cape Cod, from North Truro down Route 6 to Route 28, right down to the very elbow of the Cape. It took just … Continue reading →

Cape Town was my favourite lighthouse — until I went to see the light in North Truro on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA, which if truth were told, I have seen not once but dozens of times since my childhood, but … Continue reading →

I wouldn’t have believed there could be a lighthouse sitting in the middle of a large village, even a seaside village, instead of right on the shore. But there it is, in the village of Southwold in Suffolk on the east … Continue reading →

In the summer of 2007, I discovered another lighthouse while on holiday on the Isle of Wight. By this time, I had decided to try and photograph lighthouses as a sort of project, if one per year can be considered … Continue reading →

A year later I went to Buenos Aires for a meeting of editors of journals on reproductive and sexual health, sexuality, and related health and human rights issues. The aim was to help a Chilean group to set up an … Continue reading →

This was my first lighthouse. Actually, that’s not true. The lighthouses that first interested me were on Cape Cod, but this was the first decent photo I took of them. It’s on the main island of the Farne Islands, where … Continue reading →