Bart Bear's Blog

This used to be the lighthouse that marked the entrance to the port of Cleveland, just south of Brisbane. It was the second lighthouse there, built in 1864 to replace one that was the first lighthouse in Queensland. It is a tower built of timber and covered in weatherboards. In 1976 it was replaced by an automatic light on a tall concrete pole. I like the old sort of lighthouse like this one, where you needed lighthouse keepers to look after the tower and keep the light burning. The modern automatic ones just don't have the same feel about them. Besides, the new ones don't have big staircases for small bears to play on. Can you see the bear in the picture? Mum and I intend to visit every lighthouse that we can get to. So far we have been to 74 in Australia and the Oldies have seen 10 in the UK. Visiting lighthouses is fun because they are in interesting places, either wild, windy, rocky bits of coast or near harbours where there are lots of boats to watch.

Labels: lighthouse, Queensland