Don't you love lighthouses?

[Manny]

Upper Bay

Concord Point has to be one of the smallest lighthouses ever (you can kind of see it in the picture)!
It's sad to see Fishing Battery in such bad shape.

Anybody got a good shot of Turkey Point?

Manny

 

[mcaswell]

Two close to New Orleans got demolished by the recent storms, the old West Rigolets Lighthouse (1855) and the New Canal Lighthouse. The New Canal house won a contest to get new windows from the Jeld-Win company (like Thomas Point on the Chesapeake) and will be rebuilt into an education center..

Oh, I love the West Rigolets! I made a page for this lighthouse several years ago, with lots of photos...

http://www.pmgraphicsllc.com/mike/wrl/

I was so sad to learn it was demolished, but I'm glad I did at least get to go inside it once.

How is the New Canal looking? I saw a photo of it soon after the hurricane, and (unlike the West Rigolets, which was totally gone), it looked like it had been partially knocked off its foundation, and was laying on its side, but at least was partially intact.

--Michael