A walk on the wild side
May 30, 2021
4 minutes
WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY LAWRENCE SCHÄFFLER
Erected in 1910, the 14m lighthouse is perched 155m above sea level at the end of the Cape Brett peninsula – a reassuring beacon that guided mariners arriving at/leaving the Bay of Islands for nearly 70 years. Though the original tower remains (complete with its intricate internal workings) its light has long been asleep.
Instead, the warning wink mariners see today is a much more modest (and automated) light installed just alongside the tower in 1978, when the original lighthouse was decommissioned. With the swap came a change to its ‘signature’. The original tower emitted two white flashes every 30 seconds
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