Episode 44 - Split Rock Lighthouse

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We're actually rolling right now.

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Oh, hi everyone.

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I'm Emily.

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And I'm Vince.

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And this is the Lighthouse Lowdown.

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Well, welcome everybody to episode 44.

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Heck yeah.

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I forget how many episodes that is.

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44 is a ton.

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We're coming up on the old 5-0.

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I remember when I started, I was like, I want to get to 15 episodes.

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That's my goal.

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I want to get to 15 before I quit this hobby.

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And we're at 44.

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Here we are, 44.

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Along with all these people.

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Yeah.

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What made me realize how many episodes it was is that, so everyone knows, we have a

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new feature on our website where it's a Google map where you can see which lighthouses we've

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covered so you can like look through the world and we have little pins where we've covered

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lighthouses.

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And then if you click on a pin, it comes up with a link that you can use to follow to

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Google so that you can see like reviews and their website and all that cool stuff.

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That's awesome.

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I'm glad it also runs through Google because I feel like they're my favorite for the moment.

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Yeah.

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They got it going on.

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They got the most going on.

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But I can't figure out how to make the map fill the whole screen on a computer.

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So it's just like this little screen.

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Like a window.

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Like a little window in the middle of the big screen.

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I don't know how to fix that.

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I'm not very tech savvy.

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Well, I was supposed to do this maybe six plus months ago.

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That was my job to do.

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Yeah.

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You sent me a link like the beginning of it and there was only three on there.

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Yeah.

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Because it was, yeah.

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Yep.

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And so Emily did it.

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It was labor intensive.

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Thank you, Emily.

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Because you can't directly embed Google Maps into your website.

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You have to do it like a roundabout way with Google custom maps or something like that.

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So anyway, that's on our website.

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You guys should check it out.

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It's pretty cool.

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Just kind of fun to click around and see where we've covered.

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I don't think we're really heavy on any location yet.

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Which is great.

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It's not like we have a ton in California or a ton in Maine or anything.

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It's just kind of spread out.

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They are mostly on the coast.

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Yeah.

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Good one.

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In Michigan area.

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Yeah.

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We did do a lot of Michigan.

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But we like those people.

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So I'm going to jump into the history.

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My first history buoy of the year.

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Wow.

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First history buoy and actually I think a while I've failed spectacularly.

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You did invent the history buoy.

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So yeah, if I wanted to, we could just stop doing it all together.

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I think we should stick with it.

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So what is it today?

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It's day marks.

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So we're going to talk about day marks.

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Nice.

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What is that?

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So technically all lighthouses are day marks, but not all day marks are lighthouses.

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That's kind of the vibe I'm going with here.

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That's the energy.

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Yeah.

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The energy you're bringing to 2024.

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So a day mark is basically just a constant identifiable structure that is like used as

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an age navigation.

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So they have like most day marks are not lit day marks.

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It's just like during the day.

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If you see this, they just covered a bunch of them on the United States.

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This lighthouse service podcast, lighthearted.

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Yeah, they didn't cover a bunch of them, but they talked to a guy who's that's his specialty.

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So a lot of day beacon stuff.

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He's like a historian specialist or like, I don't know, I didn't listen to it.

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So day marks, I might be interrupting you.

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Yeah, you are.

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Go ahead.

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Day marks are sorry, they can't did something.

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The paint that's on a lighthouse, right?

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Like this, like the pattern or is it more to it?

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No, it's about it.

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And moving on.

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I'm just kidding.

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Well, so what I wanted to ask the way that you'd worded it was that day marks are things

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you can see that aren't necessarily lit.

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Yeah.

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And so a lighthouse, the tower itself is a day mark, but not all day marks are lighthouses.

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So what what other items can be used as day marks?

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Is this for all like nautical navigation or?

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Yeah, yeah.

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Day marks are just especially nautical navigation will just be like I mentioned, it's like a

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non lit structure of some kind that you use to pinpoint where you're going.

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Like I don't have a bunch of examples of those because we're talking about lighthouses.

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Like I'm just trying to talk about lighthouses.

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You're throwing me off my game.

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I'm sorry.

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OK, so the effectiveness of a day mark varies depending on like color and stuff and lighthouses

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because they're more for nighttime navigation, their day beacon or their day day mark may

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not be as like.

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Impactful you know.

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Yeah, like they're not always going to be a bright otherwise we'd have like neon pink

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lighthouses or something.

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But in this case, a lighthouse's day mark is its pattern or color.

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So the United States uses solid colors, single bands, two to eight stripes and spiral bands

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as well as diamonds and just like plain brick.

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Two to eight stripes.

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I swear I've seen.

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Oh, I'm stupid.

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I was going to say some one strippers.

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Yeah, but inherently if you put a stripe, then there's another stripe at least.

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I am talking.

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I said single band and then two to eight stripes and the eight stripes.

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If you put nine, I swear to goodness, I'm coming down there and what are you talking

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about getting rid of one of those stripes?

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Why eight is a maximum.

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The eight is actually West Quarry Lighthouse, which we covered the where's Waldo Lighthouse.

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Yes, exactly.

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Very nice.

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And you said lighthouses anymore stripe here.

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It would be couldn't be any more.

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I do wonder because West Quarry Lighthouse is not that tall.

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So I wonder what the thickness we could do the math on those bands is.

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Oh, I said it in my episode how thick the bands were.

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I can't remember.

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It was like three feet.

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It was thicker than I thought.

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I don't think it was three feet.

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It was it was like in pictures.

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You're like, oh, it's just like, you know, a couple inches.

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Yeah.

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But so our new I'm sorry, caffeine is just common for me.

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You were like this before you start drinking coffee.

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Sure.

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Our new logo.

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Yes.

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Would you say lighthouse in the shape of an L for use?

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Use who haven't seen?

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Yes, it's the lighthouse is an L and then there's another L. So it's the LL.

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I like that a lot.

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Thank you.

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Literally.

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I see our day mark is well, how would you describe it?

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What would you call that?

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That's diamond with diamond.

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What colors?

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Blue.

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I thought maybe you had like a special name for it.

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That's lighthouse lowdown blue events.

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Come on.

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It is with lighthouse lowdown black next to it.

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Or is that Navy?

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That's Navy L. So it is blue.

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It's two blues.

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All right.

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Sorry, folks.

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Getting distracted.

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What is our flash pattern?

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How could you ask me that question?

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I haven't thought about it.

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We don't even know yet.

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I'm definitely going to say that we have a red beacon.

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Oh, because those are our favorites.

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Alternating red and white.

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That'd be cool.

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Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.

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Yeah, that's an emergency.

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It's an emergency.

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Everyone listen.

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We're not talking about the light.

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Okay, we're talking about day mark.

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All right.

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All right.

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Do houses ever have day marks?

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Like lighthouses, of course, but the house for the light, like the keepers, quarters,

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quarters.

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Yes, actually.

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Sometimes the keepers cottage is what distinguishes it from other lighthouses.

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Like whenever they have a red tin roof, that's usually it's like that.

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Yeah.

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So usually day marks need to stand out really well against their backgrounds, which is usually

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sky, cliff or rocks.

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Sometimes trees like quad.

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Yeah, true.

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Trees.

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It's good point.

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But also it would be more it would be sky because you'd be looking at it from below

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and so that would explain trees.

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That would explain why blue is not seen on my house as well as I actually wrote that

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forest green.

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Oh, no, I didn't write that.

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But I was going to point out that that's I said this in a past episode, but that's why

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I made our our logo blue.

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Oh, cool.

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It's not something you would see in an actual.

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I do remember that.

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I really like it, though.

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I should we should make one in the front yard.

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I'll leave you to that.

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So I'm thinking of Okra, Coke is big, fat white lighthouse.

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I think of our trip to the Outer Banks last September, two September ago, two September.

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Oh, my goodness.

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The diamond pattern, which is Cape Hatteras.

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No, no, Cape Lookout.

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Well, we didn't get to Cape Lookout.

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That's right.

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Hatteras was the spiral famous spiral, the barbershop spiral.

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OK.

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And those are also interesting.

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We covered this before, but remind me, those are also interesting because they need to

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differentiate from one another.

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And it's a really lighthouse heavy area.

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True for all lighthouses.

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And I'm going to point out something here in a second.

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You would just quit talking.

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I'll just relax.

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So my next point was that lighthouses need to differ from the ones around them in some

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recognizable way, like adding a red roof to Keepers Cottage or something.

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You took my only example.

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That's exactly what I was going to say.

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I know you coming in here.

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Do you want to do it?

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No, I just love being here.

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Can't be mad at you for that.

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So so an example I was going to use was Mackinac, which was the episode our last episode, episode

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43, you did old Mackinac Point Lighthouse and McGulpin Point Lighthouses are only a couple

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miles away from each other, which is really unusual for lighthouses that serve the same

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purpose.

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They do the same thing.

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They're like, here's the narrowest points like from here, it's going to open up.

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So they have to be identified from each other so that you know whether or not you're looking

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at Mackinac or McGulpin.

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But it's an interesting point that they look extremely similar.

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Aside from McGulpin has like a little skinny red band just underneath the lantern room

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on the lighthouse.

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And other than that, they're the same in every way.

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So it's like very little differentiation between the two.

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But there's still a way to tell them apart.

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And it's not as important to figure out which one's which because they're so close together

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and they're the terrain doesn't change between them.

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They're not serving any other purpose than like whenever you look at Cape Hatteras and

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Body Island, you can't mix the two of them up like you cannot because Cape Hatteras is

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warning of Diamond Shoals, which is the graveyard of the Atlantic.

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And Body Island is like, hey, there's an inlet.

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Come on in here.

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Like you can't mix those two up.

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That's why they're so like things.

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One is intended to pull you in one's intended to stay away.

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Lighthouses that serve different purposes really have to be different visually from

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each other at night and during the day, which is why their day marks are so different.

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But then you have a lighthouse is right next to each other and it's like they don't have

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to be that different.

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Yeah, they usually are.

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But that's so interesting.

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Like I think most people who are like lighthouse tourism, something that keeps coming up on

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my mind, we're talking about a trip.

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But most people who are I guess almost everyone who's involved with lighthouses are casual

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observers.

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So they're going to go see one.

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It's like we have neighbors here that has they have a lighthouse stained glass in their

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window and we asked them about it and they said, oh, yeah, we went to see one lighthouse

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as kids with our family and that was the one.

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And I said, is it Cape Hatteras?

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Because it's the spiral pattern.

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And they said, oh, I'm not sure where's that at?

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And you know, we're the people to ask among other people.

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But most common people who are traveling and seeing a lighthouse, I think they see a pattern.

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And if it's something like Cape Hatteras, it's really memorable and they may not think

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about why it's that way.

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So I don't think most people know this history, Bowie.

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I think that's interesting.

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Most people who know lighthouses would know the general idea.

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But they don't just we've been talking about this for what, a year and a half?

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The U.S. I think most of our lighthouses are white.

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I think that's probably true everywhere.

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Most lighthouses are just white and that's fine.

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But it's always fun when there's some color introduced.

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Like Cape Lookout is a favorite for most people because of the diamond pattern.

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And there's another lighthouse that has diamonds, same color and everything.

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Diamond Lady or something like that.

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I know.

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I don't know if we talked about it, but I've seen it.

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I've looked into it at some point.

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I'm going to look it up really fast.

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It's not I want to say it's not as grand, but it looks very similar to Lookout.

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Diamond Lady is Cape Lookout.

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Oh, it's the Diamond Lady.

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Yeah, that's so funny.

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I'm like, we should know these things.

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Well, no, this is that's how this is how we learn.

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Well, is there another would you would you search that share?

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I mean, I'm sure there's another one that shares.

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There's the lighthouse lowdown.

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They share a diamond pattern.

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This may be the only lighthouse with diamonds.

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Well, if anybody knows of any other lighthouses that have diamonds, let us know.

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Because we love them.

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Cape Lookout.

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Is that the one I think we're talking to someone at Ochre Coke, like one of the guides.

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Yeah.

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And he was telling us about laying down like beside Cape Lookout.

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Did I tell you that?

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Were you there?

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But I can't remember what he was saying.

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Maybe we talked about it later and I recalled it later or something.

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But he was saying like, you can lay down and it's the one he took pictures of after it

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had flooded and it was like reflected in the water.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Awesome photos.

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Very cool.

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Yeah.

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But I don't have the complete story.

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That's also North Carolina.

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That's I think is that technically Outer Banks and Outer Banks?

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Yeah, they're all of them.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And there's the whole Kitty Hawk all the way down to Hatteras, Ochre Coke and Kitty Hawk.

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Hang on.

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Kuretuck is all the way up there.

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Kuretuck Beach.

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Kuretuck is the top, right?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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The top.

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The top.

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You know, up there.

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Up at the top of the map.

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Yeah.

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That's my history.

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Good history, Bowie.

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The episode that we're doing today is over Split Rock Lighthouse.

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And there was actually two, one in Minnesota and one in New York.

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But the one that we're talking about today is Minnesota.

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I just came from Minnesota.

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Cool.

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We're in Minnesota.

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I flew into Minneapolis St. Paul Airport.

353
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Okay.

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And then I drove to Rochester.

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Where is that?

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Rochester was, it's inland.

357
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Okay.

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It was southeast.

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I'm pretty sure.

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Yeah.

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Southeast of Minneapolis St. Paul area.

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So I don't, I don't know Minnesota, but yeah, I had some good food there.

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So anyway.

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Sorry.

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I derailed it, but it's on the north shore of Lake Superior and pretty far west on the

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lake.

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So for those of you who aren't here, she is pointing and gesturing with her hands.

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Yeah.

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And for me, like to you, it's going to be on the opposite side of like motioning, you

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know, up there, you know, up in there.

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Give me a second.

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I'm opening my maps.

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We won't have it on screen, but everyone else will already know.

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You're the ones who are learning like north of Minneapolis.

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You go up to Duluth, which is on the coast of Lake Superior.

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And then way up the far side is Thunder Bay, which is Canadian side.

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Cool.

378
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I'm talking about going on a motorcycle ride up there.

379
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Oh, no way.

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So I mentioned you might want to go along to see the lighthouses.

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I can't ride a motorcycle yet.

382
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I don't want to.

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What else do you have to say?

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You could follow us in a car.

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You can carry all the stuff.

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I'll be in a moped.

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The medical supplies.

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It's a day behind you.

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So there's I'm getting distracted with my map.

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Oh, yeah.

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So get out of there.

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Really cool.

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So split rock.

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Normally when you hear rock like Eldred Rock or standard rock, they're always like on an

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island or a crib or something like in the middle of some body of water.

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But for split rock, we're talking about a cliffside.

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So that's kind of fun.

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Oh, cool.

399
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Oh, my gosh.

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I already saw this photo on accident and I forgot about it.

401
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Yeah, it's pretty cool.

402
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And the lighthouse itself is not super short.

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I'm pretty sure it's 50 something feet tall.

404
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Oh, my gosh.

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And so heck of a cliff.

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Yeah.

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Oh, yeah.

408
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There's people standing there.

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Yeah.

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So like it seems like this cliff like isn't that tall, but man is tall.

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It's a big cliff and it's right on the edge.

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Beautiful stone to you.

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Yeah.

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Super fun.

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November 28th.

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I usually don't show the lighthouse right off the bat, but I wanted you I wanted to

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show you the cliff.

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Big splash.

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Someone actually did a stained glass piece of this and it was one of my favorites.

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I remember taking a screenshot of it and being like, oh, this is like the goal.

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But I couldn't find it.

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So yeah, I can see that really, really pretty because your glass could have texture that

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would reflect the rock face and colors.

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That'd be awesome.

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For those of you who don't know, Emily does stained glass work.

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Yes.

427
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Blue glass works.

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Is it a website?

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No, but it's on Etsy and Instagram.

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So check it out.

431
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Check me out.

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But I also got to say, because I'm cracked up on caffeine, that little Karen right there

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makes me very happy.

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Karen.

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That's what they're called.

436
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Are you sure?

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I was referring.

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Karen's are in nature.

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They used to occur and maybe it's called something different, but usually they're used on like

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hiking trails to mark.

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Markers.

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Like there was one point I got to go on a, I'm sorry, I'm derailing you got to go on

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a backpacking trip in Alaska.

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And we wrote about it to myself that we went through every terrain, mud, sand, forest.

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And one of them was rock.

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We were literally on top of solid rock for like a mile.

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And so there's no trail.

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There's Warren trail everywhere else.

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But we don't know where to go on this rock except for stacked Karen's that were marked.

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You like follow those and then you'll, you know, cause the earth would wear away.

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Yeah.

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Hikers, but not the rock.

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So that's cool.

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Anyways, very cool picture.

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Thank you.

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You're welcome.

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A gift Vincent approved.

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Remember 28th, 1905, a huge storm hit this area, destroying or damaging 29 vessels and

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killing 36 people.

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Oh my God.

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What a change.

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Starting it off.

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All right.

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The storm was named Matafa.

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I think in honor of a steam ship that wrecked during the storm and actually read the story

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about it.

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Cause I was kind of interested in it split into outside Duluth Harbor.

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Like they realized that the storm was getting really bad and they weren't going to make

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it.

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So they turned around and were almost into the Harbor.

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And then there was like, I think what they said is there was this flood of water out

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of the Harbor.

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Like maybe the storm was like pushing water back and forth like this big anyway.

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And so it hit the nose of the ship and pushed it down into the lake.

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And then the ship was almost vertical.

476
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It's like the Titanic.

477
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Yeah.

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And broke that way.

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Nine crew members died from there because they were in the second half that didn't like

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one side.

481
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They eventually both sunk, but one side sunk faster than the other one.

482
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What year?

483
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I'm sorry.

484
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1905.

485
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Okay.

486
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Yeah.

487
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That's a rough couple of years.

488
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Now the guys had to be chopped out of solid ice the next morning to recover his body.

489
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That's Lake Superior for you.

490
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Yeah.

491
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That's what I'm saying.

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Like if you think about the impact of these storms, it's not just like, Oh, it's, it's

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windy and wavy.

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It's like, we're talking about solid ice in one day.

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So after this, the vice president of the Lake Carriers Association wrote asking for a lighthouse

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near Split Rock and Lake Carriers Association represent the U S flag, Great Lakes fleet

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since 1880.

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And these people move 90 million tons of cargo, like through the Great Lakes every year.

499
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Awesome.

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So, so obviously very important guy, high standing and needs to be happy.

501
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So he said, quote, there is at present no lighthouse on the North shore of Lake Superior

502
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between Grand Moray and two harbors.

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And it is extremely difficult to locate two harbors in a fog or storm owing to the uncertain

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variation of the compass on the North shore of Lake Superior due to the vast metallic

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deposits in that vicinity.

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And also owing to the dangerous character of the coast all along the North shore.

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During the past two years, there have been disasters in this vicinity amounting to over

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$2 million.

509
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End quote.

510
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And that was in 1900.

511
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Yeah.

512
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Early 1900s.

513
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So what he's talking about is there's, it's the reason why there's so much business booming

514
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on Lake Superior is because it had so many ore deposits or like iron ore.

515
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Those deposits messed up compasses.

516
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Like they would, they would stop pointing North.

517
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And so he's saying they need a lighthouse because of the dangers.

518
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That's really interesting.

519
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We talked about that before.

520
00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:44,320
I think when we talked to Fred Stonehouse, because he's a, for those of you who don't

521
00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:49,320
know, he's a Great Lakes lighthouse expert, absolute expert.

522
00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:50,320
Yeah.

523
00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,760
But I think I missed why that was important.

524
00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:53,760
That's interesting.

525
00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:54,760
Yeah.

526
00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:55,960
This guy, they want him to be happy.

527
00:21:55,960 --> 00:22:00,840
So only two months after this letter Congress set aside $75,000 to build a lighthouse.

528
00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:07,040
And in 1905, that was $2.5 million over $2.5 million for a lighthouse.

529
00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:08,040
Just wild.

530
00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:11,040
Has a nice poker room, pool table.

531
00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:12,040
Yeah.

532
00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:13,040
Cigar.

533
00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:14,040
Underground theater room.

534
00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:20,680
Lighthouse was designed by Ralph Russell Tinkham and construction started in 1909 and they

535
00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:22,920
chose Split Rock for its location.

536
00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:26,760
Only the area was called Stony Point and it's 130 feet tall.

537
00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:27,760
Nice.

538
00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:29,320
Why did they change the name?

539
00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:35,440
I think when the people who came here for the first time, what are they called?

540
00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:36,440
It's not like settlers.

541
00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:37,440
It's Native American.

542
00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:40,680
No, like English people.

543
00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:41,680
I can't remember.

544
00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:42,680
Brits.

545
00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:43,680
No.

546
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:47,760
When they came here, they called it Split Rock.

547
00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:50,680
And I'm wondering if like from the front or something, it looks broken.

548
00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:51,680
I don't know.

549
00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:54,560
I haven't been able to find.

550
00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:55,560
Rock feature.

551
00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:56,560
Yeah.

552
00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:58,360
Like shaped like a wedge, you think?

553
00:22:58,360 --> 00:23:04,880
I was thinking there's a big feature like, see that small, smaller segment on the right.

554
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:06,520
Maybe there's a big groove between.

555
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:07,520
Yeah.

556
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:08,840
From where it has split off.

557
00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:09,840
Maybe.

558
00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:10,840
I don't know.

559
00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:11,840
Yeah.

560
00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:14,800
I've never seen it from an angle that's like straight on from the lake.

561
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,440
It's always from the side because this is where people can actually take pictures.

562
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:19,280
So yeah, and it's a cool photo.

563
00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:20,280
It's a great spot.

564
00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:21,280
Yeah.

565
00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:25,560
And at the time Split Rock was the highest lighthouse to be built in the U S with a focal

566
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:35,080
plane of 168 feet, which it's funny because Cape Hatteras, like even this being as tall

567
00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:42,400
as it is, like so high up on this cliff side, Cape Hatteras still has 30 feet on them when

568
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:47,560
it comes to the focal plane and Cape Hatteras is like eight feet above sea level on the

569
00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:48,560
ground.

570
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:49,560
Isn't that crazy?

571
00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:50,560
That is a big lighthouse.

572
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:56,240
So especially when you're comparing to the height of this, like on a cliff with people

573
00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:59,800
with like by comparison and then a lighthouse on top of that.

574
00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:03,680
And it's like, oh yeah, Cape Hatteras is still 30, got 30 feet on that.

575
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:10,960
People using people as a scale, assuming they're six feet tall and they're also in front of

576
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:11,960
the lighthouse.

577
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:16,640
So the first perspective is that I guess not for the perspective is that they're actually

578
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:18,560
larger in scale to the lighthouse.

579
00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:19,560
Yeah.

580
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:20,560
That's a big reality.

581
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:21,560
That's a big cliff.

582
00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:22,560
It's pretty wild.

583
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:24,560
And Hatteras is a really big lighthouse.

584
00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:25,560
Yeah.

585
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:26,560
So crazy.

586
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:32,360
So Split Rock was put into service July 31st, 1910.

587
00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:34,960
So this is pretty late lighthouse.

588
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:40,280
Like most of our lighthouses we see early 1800s or like mid 1800s.

589
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:41,680
So this one's pretty late.

590
00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:43,920
It's a 7.6 acre station.

591
00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:48,320
It's a 54 foot tower octagonal made from brick around steel framework.

592
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,720
And I have a picture for that.

593
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:54,000
So old photo of them working on constructing the lighthouse.

594
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:55,360
That dude is gutsy.

595
00:24:55,360 --> 00:25:01,600
I'm saying OSHA would get goosebumps.

596
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:03,440
OSHA was not in the chat.

597
00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:05,960
This guy's just standing on top of the steel.

598
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,480
I mean, that's like 40 feet above the ground.

599
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:10,480
He would die.

600
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:11,480
Absolutely die.

601
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:12,480
Yeah.

602
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:14,800
You know what's worse than dying is surviving the fall.

603
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:15,800
Yeah.

604
00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:18,920
I'm pretty sure he'd hit that steel on the way down.

605
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:22,280
Even the scaffolding over here looks pretty precarious.

606
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:25,080
It looks like what you'd see in an old abandoned mine.

607
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:26,080
Oh my gosh.

608
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:27,080
Cool photo.

609
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:36,080
It had a third order by valve Fresnel lens, which flashed for 0.5 seconds every 9.5 seconds.

610
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:37,960
So it's pretty fast.

611
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:42,100
The tower was actually built to house a second order lens.

612
00:25:42,100 --> 00:25:46,480
But when they were nearing completion, the budget only allowed for a third order lens.

613
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:48,820
So they had to change plan there.

614
00:25:48,820 --> 00:25:51,080
It's run by clockwork mechanism.

615
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:56,720
It's had a 250 pound weight that went down the middle of the tower and then have to be

616
00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:58,720
rewound up at the top.

617
00:25:58,720 --> 00:25:59,720
Nice.

618
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:00,720
That's cool.

619
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,360
There was also an oil storage building and a fog signal house.

620
00:26:03,360 --> 00:26:08,800
And the fog signal house was originally two six inch sirens run by air compressed by a

621
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:14,080
22 horsepower gasoline engine.

622
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,720
So is that the oil storage room you think that's shown there?

623
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:23,280
I'm thinking that's housing for construction people or like a storage.

624
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:26,400
They usually build something just for the construction site.

625
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:30,860
And because another interesting thing is there were no roads going to this lighthouse at

626
00:26:30,860 --> 00:26:31,860
this time.

627
00:26:31,860 --> 00:26:37,160
So everything, literally all of the construction materials were brought by water and then hauled

628
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:38,480
up the side of the cliff.

629
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:39,480
That's so cool.

630
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:40,720
Yeah, that's very lighthouse of them.

631
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:43,060
And that actually was true for a long time after this.

632
00:26:43,060 --> 00:26:45,840
It took a while for them to actually get like roads over here.

633
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:46,840
Gangster.

634
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:47,840
Yeah.

635
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:51,220
So they also built three two story keepers dwellings, each that had a tiny barn behind

636
00:26:51,220 --> 00:26:54,400
it and the dwellings were lined up like each facing out to the lake.

637
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:55,400
It's really cute.

638
00:26:55,400 --> 00:27:00,240
Picture that it's so just picturesque and rock.

639
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:01,240
Boom.

640
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,280
There's your split.

641
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:04,280
Why?

642
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:10,000
Why would they build a building right on top of it?

643
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:14,040
Well, I don't think it's broken as much as it just appears.

644
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:15,040
Yeah.

645
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:16,920
I mean, I don't know.

646
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:17,920
I don't know.

647
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:22,880
We can talk to a structural or civil engineer, but like it appears to be a weak spot.

648
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,360
It does.

649
00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:27,160
I mean, they're really on the edge.

650
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,040
That bitch is right on the edge of that.

651
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:34,400
I mean, there's got to be maybe one foot of space between the fence and the cliff and

652
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:35,400
the fence in the house.

653
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:36,780
It's here's the deal.

654
00:27:36,780 --> 00:27:39,600
It's not eroding because at least quickly.

655
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:40,600
Yeah.

656
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:41,600
Because it's solid rock.

657
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:42,600
It's not dirt.

658
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:46,400
And so it's probably looked like this longer than there's been people there.

659
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:47,400
That's true.

660
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:51,440
But it is kind of unnerving.

661
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,420
That looks like a I'm going to make assumptions.

662
00:27:54,420 --> 00:27:56,440
So those are man doors on the houses.

663
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:57,840
So they're three foot wide.

664
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:04,440
So maybe a six to nine foot wide portion of rock that's either worn away due to water

665
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:05,560
or split somehow.

666
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:06,560
That's crazy.

667
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,400
You imagine that would be a pretty nice view looking out that window, though.

668
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:10,400
Yeah, it would.

669
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:12,400
Look at all the woods.

670
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:13,400
That's beautiful.

671
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:14,400
Goes on forever.

672
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:16,880
You can see why there wasn't a road here for a while.

673
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:17,880
Oh, yeah.

674
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:19,320
So anyway, I think it's really cute station.

675
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:25,640
Oh, it's all the all these buildings are part of the keepers dwellings and then a barn behind

676
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:26,640
there.

677
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:27,640
So each one has its own barn.

678
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:28,640
You had chickens and stuff.

679
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:29,640
I don't know.

680
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:30,640
I bet you they did.

681
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:31,640
I didn't read anything about livestock.

682
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:32,640
That's what living out there.

683
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:33,640
Livestock order.

684
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,640
They're not going to get resupplied very often.

685
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:37,640
Cool.

686
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,360
Everyone has their own barn to take care of.

687
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,920
Yeah, they can compare quality and cleanliness with one another.

688
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:50,320
And at this point, everything they got was by like a derrick and hoisting mechanism,

689
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,320
like so they would pull things up from the side of the cliff.

690
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,600
And so, yeah, they probably didn't get supplies very often.

691
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:57,760
It'd be hard work going anywhere.

692
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,560
I think Beaver Bay is where they went for supplies for a long time.

693
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,200
It's like if you keep following the North Shore north.

694
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,640
Yeah, that's where it'd be.

695
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:08,560
Nowadays, there's a highway that runs by this lighthouse.

696
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:17,080
It's sixty one highway sixty one or also called Voyager's Lighthouse Voyager's Highway.

697
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:20,520
And Voyager's is a national park in Minnesota.

698
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:24,440
So I think it's like one hundred fifty miles of highway.

699
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:26,760
It goes all the way up to the Canada border.

700
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:34,160
This motorcycle trip we're talking about goes Thunder Bay's like this this guy who told

701
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:35,160
me about the ride.

702
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:36,600
That's his favorite spot, I guess.

703
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:40,560
His favorite segment of views and whatnot on the Canadian side.

704
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:45,160
But the highways go all the way around Lake Superior.

705
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:46,160
Oh, really?

706
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:50,000
So I mean, you cross the bridge at Mackinac.

707
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:51,000
Thank you.

708
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,800
And you go all the way down to our friends in Michigan, all the way around here, all

709
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:56,400
the way up north to Thunder Bay.

710
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,920
It's all continuous, beautiful, supposedly beautiful.

711
00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:01,040
Lots of lighthouses.

712
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:02,520
That's lots of lighthouses.

713
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,160
You guys wouldn't want me along because I'd be stopping you every.

714
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:08,680
Yeah, as long as there is this guy's name is Mirrick.

715
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:13,520
And as long as there's espresso somewhere near the lighthouses, he would be thrilled.

716
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,040
He can't have that much espresso.

717
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:16,720
Oh, he can't.

718
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,480
There's another name for this highway.

719
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:20,480
There's three different names.

720
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:23,120
There's another one.

721
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,160
I think I wrote it later on, so I'll get to it.

722
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:29,680
But the first head keeper of Split Rock was Oren Young, and he had two assistants, Edward

723
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,160
Sexton and Roy Gill.

724
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:36,480
And unfortunately, both of the assistants died within two months of the station opening

725
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:38,920
because they overturned in their boat.

726
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:39,920
Suspect.

727
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:41,360
Oh, they died together?

728
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:42,360
Damn.

729
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:43,360
Yeah.

730
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:44,360
Yeah.

731
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:48,360
And from the sound of it, they never found their bodies.

732
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:50,800
So it's like assumed dead.

733
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:51,800
Lake Superior got him.

734
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:53,280
I know, just ate him right up.

735
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:54,960
That sucks.

736
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:55,960
It's always awful.

737
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:56,960
Especially assistant keepers.

738
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:57,960
It would be a terrible way to die.

739
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:01,600
Yeah, they were going to Beaver Bay and they found their overturned boat like the next

740
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:02,600
day.

741
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:03,600
How far is it away?

742
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:05,080
Like motorized boat or rowboat?

743
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:06,080
No.

744
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:07,080
Well, maybe.

745
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:08,080
I don't know.

746
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,240
I mean, probably in the 1900s.

747
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:15,060
Apparently the waves can turn in a second, so you kind of can't predict.

748
00:31:15,060 --> 00:31:18,480
They had to replace the assistant keepers really quickly.

749
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:20,440
I think there was no notes written on them.

750
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:22,840
So yeah, you got to wonder why there's two job openings.

751
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:23,840
Yeah.

752
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:27,760
It's like, why would it happen?

753
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:33,280
In 1916, a tramway was built so they could finally stop hauling stuff up the side of

754
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:36,320
the light, the side of the cliff.

755
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:37,320
And I have a photo of it.

756
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:38,320
Okay.

757
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:40,680
I'm all over the place.

758
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:51,440
A gasoline engine pulled a cart up like this track from like a boat and landing dock platform

759
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,480
area up close to the lighthouse.

760
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:57,160
And then they would unhook the cart and push it the rest of the way to the lighthouse.

761
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,080
But I'm pretty sure it was only like five minutes away.

762
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:00,080
Oh my gosh.

763
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:01,080
Isn't that crazy?

764
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,320
This is so cool.

765
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:07,720
This photo, if you're listening, shows like a super steep incline.

766
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:08,720
Yeah.

767
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:09,720
I don't even know how far.

768
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,480
How far it is, did it say?

769
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:13,480
A ways.

770
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:14,480
A was.

771
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:18,320
Man, if anything ever cut loose on there, if your rope ever broke for some time.

772
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:20,240
It would just smash into this little boat house.

773
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:21,720
It should be gone to the superior.

774
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:22,720
Yeah.

775
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:23,720
That's cool.

776
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:24,720
Pretty neat.

777
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:30,400
We had a similar, I didn't get a good photo like this, but Triangle Lighthouse.

778
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:31,400
Yeah.

779
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:37,200
Had Triangle Island Lighthouse up northwest, west of Canada.

780
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,880
Had a similar description of how they hauled their materials up.

781
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:41,880
Yeah.

782
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,440
And it was like, I want to say it was half a mile.

783
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:48,920
It was really far from the low point where the water was to the very extreme high point

784
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:49,920
of that island where the lighthouse was.

785
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:51,480
Flan and Isle had one too.

786
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:52,480
It did.

787
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,240
So it's not the first time, but really interesting.

788
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:56,840
We talked about it a couple times I think.

789
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:57,840
Oh, the mystery.

790
00:32:57,840 --> 00:32:58,840
That's right.

791
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:06,080
So Keeper Young resigned in 1928 and handed it off to his first assistant, Franklin Cavell,

792
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:11,880
who had served a total of seven years there as an assistant, like in an assistant position.

793
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:17,040
And originally I saw that he, so the seven years was like split up over a couple of different

794
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:18,040
stints.

795
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:21,800
And originally I saw he worked at Split Rock as second assistant, moved to 14 mile point

796
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:26,560
as first assistant, and then moved again to two harbors and was demoted to second assistant.

797
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:27,560
And I was like, oh.

798
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:29,560
It's a tumultuous career.

799
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:30,560
Yeah.

800
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:33,760
My first thought was just like, oh, I couldn't handle first assistant duties.

801
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:39,200
And then I read more up, they had a Keeper bio on their Facebook.

802
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:44,160
Minnesota Historical Society has ownership of this lighthouse now.

803
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:46,540
And they did a Keeper bio for this guy.

804
00:33:46,540 --> 00:33:51,480
And the reason was that his daughter Marjorie had tuberculosis.

805
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:55,880
And so he took any job he could get at a lighthouse closer to where she was in the hospital.

806
00:33:55,880 --> 00:34:00,480
I was like, bro, I just automatically assumed he was stinking at his job and he was doing

807
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:01,480
it for his child.

808
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:02,480
Yeah, that sucks.

809
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:03,480
It stinks.

810
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:08,360
He had seven children with his wife, Edith, three of which sadly died, including Marjorie.

811
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:10,280
Do you know how old she was?

812
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:12,520
She's pretty young, I think, toddler stage.

813
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:13,520
That sucks.

814
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:18,280
The other two were sudden infant death syndrome.

815
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:20,480
He retired from service in 1944.

816
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:25,440
So he worked at the lighthouse for like a solid, well, he worked around seven years

817
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:34,440
in the beginning and then worked consistent like 15 years after that as headkeeper.

818
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:38,000
And he moved closer to family after that because Edith had Parkinson's disease.

819
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:43,560
They have lots of writings about this time at Split Rock from his children because he

820
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:44,560
raised all of his kids.

821
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:49,200
Well, not all of them, but he raised a lot of his kids on Split Rock.

822
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:53,160
And they have like really nice things to say, one, about the station, even though it was

823
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:55,720
like in the winter, it was very unforgiving.

824
00:34:55,720 --> 00:34:57,480
You know, the stories are so fun.

825
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:02,920
When they talk about you can like get seawater all the way up to the top of the cliff like,

826
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:04,080
oh my gosh.

827
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:05,080
That's incredible.

828
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:06,080
Yeah.

829
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:08,640
So they have some crazy stories, but mostly about their dad.

830
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:12,240
They said that he was very fair and never made the assistance do anything he wouldn't

831
00:35:12,240 --> 00:35:13,400
do.

832
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,040
And he would often ski to the bus stop with his daughter.

833
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:18,480
First of all, ski to the bus stop.

834
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:19,480
That's so baller.

835
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:21,720
I like this is Minnesota for you.

836
00:35:21,720 --> 00:35:23,800
I wonder if it was flat land.

837
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:26,160
Must've been cross country ski.

838
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:27,160
Yeah.

839
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:30,160
And the bus stop, where would they pick her up?

840
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:31,160
Yeah.

841
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:33,080
Let me just get on the bus with my skis.

842
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:34,080
Yeah.

843
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:38,520
Probably had to go quite a ways, but she would do that with her so that he can make sure

844
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:40,160
that she made it safely.

845
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:45,840
And then he would also hunt and trap wildlife like during the winter to provide food for

846
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:46,840
his family.

847
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:47,840
So it's kind of crazy.

848
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:48,840
That's awesome.

849
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:49,840
Sounds like a cool dude.

850
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:50,840
I know.

851
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:55,320
And then the keepers left the station in December and returned in May, which his kids wrote

852
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:59,320
they had like a big problem with it because they had to switch schools like twice a year.

853
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:00,320
Oh yeah.

854
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:03,360
It wasn't until 1931 that they were allowed to stay all year long.

855
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:09,040
So this was like during his watch that they got to stay all year instead of having to

856
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:10,040
clear out in December.

857
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:11,800
So that was nice.

858
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:15,920
So there was settlement nearby to have kids go to school.

859
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:16,920
Yeah.

860
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:20,000
I want to say two harbors was like a 20 minute drive or something from here.

861
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:21,000
Yeah.

862
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:25,440
26 minutes to harbors 26 minutes away and two harbors is one that they have a lighthouse

863
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:28,480
over there and it's one of the ones that were what that was in.

864
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:29,480
What's it called?

865
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:30,480
For a skump.

866
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:31,480
No, no, no.

867
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:32,480
There's only one.

868
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:33,480
That's hilarious.

869
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:34,480
The United States Lighthouse Service auction.

870
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:48,000
Oh, so you can stay at it and it looks very nice.

871
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:53,120
It's actually the basis of why I was going to pitch to harbors for one of our trips.

872
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:57,760
Oh, but now I'm questioning it because I put all this research into Cape Cod and it's like

873
00:36:57,760 --> 00:36:59,640
everything I want in a vacation.

874
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:01,640
So now I'm like, you just want to be done.

875
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:02,640
Yeah.

876
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:06,680
But I'm also now I have high expectations and I'm like, if I can't visit 15 lighthouses,

877
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,400
then I wouldn't want to go there.

878
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:17,960
Well, I'm okay with just one as long as it's a no, I'm vetoing any trip that you said

879
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:19,440
just we just hit one lighthouse.

880
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:21,800
I have zero stamps in my passport.

881
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:22,800
Oh my gosh.

882
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:23,800
Lighthouse.

883
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:27,800
Let's table this discussion for an upcoming episode.

884
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:32,480
Well, keep that in mind on lighthouse tourism.

885
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:34,840
You sounded like hosted by Vince Bailey.

886
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:35,840
You're going to host the tourism.

887
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:39,120
Yeah, it's going to be talking just as much as that's great.

888
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:40,120
It's going to be a good episode.

889
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:43,440
We might do a late night episode on that one late night like drinks.

890
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:45,400
Yeah, like wine instead of coffee.

891
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:51,640
Oh, I don't really like wine.

892
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:53,240
Long Island's instead of coffee.

893
00:37:53,240 --> 00:37:55,000
Oh, very nautical of us.

894
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:56,800
I would be down for that.

895
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,440
So I've derailed the moment.

896
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:03,440
I saw the other name for the highway is Lake Superior International Highway.

897
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:08,720
So there's that that was completed in 1924 and started bringing lots of visitors to the

898
00:38:08,720 --> 00:38:09,720
lighthouse.

899
00:38:09,720 --> 00:38:12,600
Putting up another photo in 1935.

900
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:15,920
Keeper Cavell received these instructions from the service.

901
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:20,520
Quote, this is a show station in the lighthouse service and visitors should be encouraged

902
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:25,560
to visit the lighthouse and see the lens and other mechanism as at stated periods, which

903
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:29,000
are indicated on the sign placed at the entrance of the station.

904
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:33,040
The office recognizes that the public is not always considerate, but many of the visiting

905
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:37,000
public are thoughtful of the rights of the keepers and these should not be penalized

906
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:42,960
for their earnest efforts to see the light stations when on tourist trips or otherwise,

907
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:43,960
unquote.

908
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,560
It kind of makes me realize how we take for granted that we can see lighthouses, like

909
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:47,560
we can go have access.

910
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:52,880
Yeah, that's a museum and you pay and you can climb it and think about how annoying

911
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:54,480
this was for the keepers.

912
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:58,480
Like they're not just at work and people are showing up there at their home.

913
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,280
Their whole family is there, all their kids.

914
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,720
There's I mean, moms give birth in the keepers cottage.

915
00:39:04,720 --> 00:39:05,720
It's so crazy.

916
00:39:05,720 --> 00:39:09,080
I know and then people are just like showing up like I want to see it.

917
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:13,120
It's like get out of here.

918
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:17,280
And like in what started that where people just started showing up uninvited being like

919
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:18,280
we were tourists.

920
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:19,280
We just want to see it.

921
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:20,280
Yeah.

922
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:21,280
Nowadays, it's totally normal.

923
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:25,240
Like you're not interrupting anybody's life by showing up at the lighthouse and you pay.

924
00:39:25,240 --> 00:39:32,600
Do you remember recently we talked about the ladies, the the mayor's party that came to

925
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:33,600
go visit the lighthouse.

926
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:40,480
And it was like an event, like they took pictures sitting on the cannon and we're here observing.

927
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:45,080
Now we can, you know, like we did, we booked an entire trip to go see the outer banks and

928
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:46,600
series of lighthouses.

929
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:47,600
And you're right.

930
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:52,440
There's like especially was the one in Florida.

931
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:53,440
My memory is awful.

932
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,920
We talked about there's part of the Smithsonian Museum Society.

933
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:57,920
St. Augustine.

934
00:39:57,920 --> 00:39:58,920
Yes.

935
00:39:58,920 --> 00:39:59,920
Thank you.

936
00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:00,920
St. Augustine, Florida.

937
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:04,320
And you can see so many events they've got.

938
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:05,320
You gotta check it out.

939
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:06,320
It's really cool.

940
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:11,040
But also the website, like to have access to the information, including what we're doing

941
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:18,080
now and photos and it's really cool, especially because, you know, like you're right at one

942
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:20,240
time it was someone's house.

943
00:40:20,240 --> 00:40:21,720
Yeah, exactly.

944
00:40:21,720 --> 00:40:24,360
And they're being inspected like white glove inspect.

945
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:25,360
Yeah.

946
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:29,880
So they have to walk in your walking through, but you held the highest standards.

947
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:31,080
You don't want people messing it up.

948
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:35,400
But anyway, so he got told by the lighthouse service that he was like, they're like, be

949
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:36,680
nice to these people.

950
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:40,560
We want people to see our lighthouses and be excited and learn about them.

951
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:44,160
So yeah, you just had to make that sacrifice for all the people.

952
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:50,640
And in 1938, almost 28,000 people signed the station's log as like coming and showing up.

953
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:51,640
That's cool.

954
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:52,640
Which is a lot for 1938.

955
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:53,640
It's pretty solid.

956
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:59,480
A year later, they added a third assistant position to just to assist with all the visitors.

957
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:06,080
Because you could think about how that would add so much to your job having to entertain

958
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:09,200
people who come like you're doing a job.

959
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:11,440
You're not you're never sitting down just like hanging out.

960
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:12,600
Sure, I'll show you around.

961
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,480
It's like elbowing people out of the way.

962
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,960
Yeah, I gotta refill the oil.

963
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,920
Yeah I wonder what that role looked like.

964
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:26,560
Like I think about my grandpa and my dad.

965
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:27,840
My dad would talk about traveling.

966
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:31,040
They lived on the west coast to go camping or whatever.

967
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:36,120
Yeah, they'd bring multiple fan belts for the engine for the car, because they would

968
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:40,160
pretty much be guaranteed to break a fan belt just as part of a road trip.

969
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:43,360
And they would change tires all the time.

970
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:48,440
And like to show up at someone's house around dinner time or lunchtime or breakfast, any

971
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:50,360
meal time was like extremely inappropriate.

972
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:52,640
It was like a big foot paw.

973
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:58,240
So now take that same mindset and apply it to tourism in general, like you're gonna show

974
00:41:58,240 --> 00:42:03,400
up to the lighthouse and see if they're open on the front sign after driving how far and

975
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:06,280
like are there tours every half of an hour?

976
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:07,280
No.

977
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:08,280
Is there like a movie playing?

978
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:15,080
No, like this like you said this third keeper assistant they'd have to be tough.

979
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:20,320
That was their whole thing was now being like a tour guide for visitors.

980
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:21,520
So cool.

981
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:25,020
A year after that in 1940, the station was electrified.

982
00:42:25,020 --> 00:42:29,660
And by the first of the year in 1969, the station was decommissioned and deserted.

983
00:42:29,660 --> 00:42:30,660
So it's sad.

984
00:42:30,660 --> 00:42:35,600
Yeah, it's sad untouched for like two years before it was transferred to the state of

985
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:37,280
Minnesota.

986
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:43,040
And then a few years after that since 1976, the Minnesota Historical Society has been

987
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:47,200
restoring it to its 1920s era.

988
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:51,760
And that's the picture that I have pulled up right now is that updated lighthouse, they

989
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:55,320
take really good care of it and they get tons and tons of visitors each year.

990
00:42:55,320 --> 00:43:00,160
So it kind of pays off I think, or at least pays for itself.

991
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:01,600
I've seen limestone.

992
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:04,440
I think it's limestone like the base before.

993
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:08,480
I don't know if I've seen that pale brick.

994
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:10,400
What do we call it?

995
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:13,080
We call it something before buff buff.

996
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:14,280
It's a buff color.

997
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:18,120
I don't know if I've seen it on these type of on all three buildings that are shown.

998
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:20,120
Yeah, light peachy color.

999
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:23,040
I think this lighthouse is the most popular historical site in Minnesota.

1000
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:26,520
It has like 116,000 visitors every year.

1001
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:28,240
Wow, really cool.

1002
00:43:28,240 --> 00:43:29,440
Glad someone's taking care of it.

1003
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:32,520
Yeah, it still has the original fresnel lens in the lantern room.

1004
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:36,920
So you can go up and actually see it and it has like all the clockwork weight still connected

1005
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:38,640
so you can see how it works.

1006
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:44,560
It only runs once a year on November 10th and that's for the Edmund Fitzgerald beacon

1007
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:46,080
lighting ceremony.

1008
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:49,080
And the Edmund Fitzgerald was a freighter.

1009
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:53,400
It was the SS Edmund Fitzgerald which sunk outside the current side of the lighthouse

1010
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,760
before it was built during that storm, the Matafa.

1011
00:43:56,760 --> 00:43:58,360
Do you know the famous song?

1012
00:43:58,360 --> 00:43:59,360
Yeah.

1013
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:00,360
Okay.

1014
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:02,080
I mean, if you did not, we'd have to.

1015
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:03,480
We could play it.

1016
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:05,760
There's a short little section, right?

1017
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:06,760
Yeah.

1018
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:10,440
It just, it commemorates that ship and all the others that sunk during that storm.

1019
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:15,240
So November 10th, they do a moment of silence in which all the names of the crew members

1020
00:44:15,240 --> 00:44:21,400
are read to a ship's toll and they call that the muster of the last watch.

1021
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:24,800
And then after the final toll, the lighthouse is lit and visitors are welcome to climb and

1022
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:26,080
see the light up close.

1023
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:28,680
You can like go into the lantern room as the light is on.

1024
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:29,680
November 10th?

1025
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:31,560
Wouldn't it be a real rough time of year?

1026
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:32,800
It would be quite chilly.

1027
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:35,240
That makes sense why the ship sank.

1028
00:44:35,240 --> 00:44:36,240
Yeah.

1029
00:44:36,240 --> 00:44:37,240
True.

1030
00:44:37,240 --> 00:44:38,240
Cool.

1031
00:44:38,240 --> 00:44:39,240
Yeah.

1032
00:44:39,240 --> 00:44:41,200
So is, I'm looking at this picture.

1033
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:46,240
Is the back of the lighthouse blanked off and then the front facing the waterfront is open?

1034
00:44:46,240 --> 00:44:47,240
Yeah.

1035
00:44:47,240 --> 00:44:48,520
This is the back of the lighthouse in this picture.

1036
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:49,520
But I mean the lantern room itself.

1037
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:50,520
Okay.

1038
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:51,520
Yeah.

1039
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:53,640
That's what I, I thought the first picture I saw, I thought I saw part of it was blanked.

1040
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:55,260
A lot of trees back there.

1041
00:44:55,260 --> 00:44:58,520
So I'm not surprised that you don't want to set them on fire.

1042
00:44:58,520 --> 00:44:59,520
Yeah, exactly.

1043
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:00,520
Signal to the trees.

1044
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:01,520
Crazy.

1045
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:06,040
2011, it was made a national historic landmark and that was the 12th lighthouse to be given

1046
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:07,040
that distinction.

1047
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:10,680
And the only one that was after that was Montauk Lighthouse.

1048
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:11,680
Montauk Point.

1049
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,680
I need a list of our episodes now that we're at 44.

1050
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:18,880
We can go to our map.

1051
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:19,880
The map.

1052
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:20,880
Check our map.

1053
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:22,820
That's Split Rock Lighthouse.

1054
00:45:22,820 --> 00:45:24,400
Very popular, very well known.

1055
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:29,040
I think one of the most photographed lighthouses in the United States because of its surrounding

1056
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:30,040
terrain and everything.

1057
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:31,040
It's really pretty.

1058
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:32,040
Yeah.

1059
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:33,040
That'd be a cool spot to visit.

1060
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:34,040
Yeah.

1061
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:37,680
So, and earlier that 116,000, that's paying people.

1062
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:40,800
So people that pay to come in and check out the lighthouse.

1063
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:45,160
But Split Rock, what's it called?

1064
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:46,160
Area.

1065
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:48,340
It's a reserve or something.

1066
00:45:48,340 --> 00:45:50,600
That whole area is like hiking.

1067
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:52,800
You can park and hike.

1068
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:56,560
And there's a little bit of a hike that goes down to the water where that picture was taken.

1069
00:45:56,560 --> 00:46:00,460
Where you can see the whole cliff and a lighthouse on the side.

1070
00:46:00,460 --> 00:46:04,800
And so that's not even counting the people who visit just to look around the area and

1071
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:06,280
not just the lighthouse.

1072
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:11,920
I forget that people can just happen to be next to a lighthouse and not be like, this

1073
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:12,920
is why I'm here.

1074
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:13,920
Yeah.

1075
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:15,920
They're like, oh cool, a lighthouse.

1076
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:19,560
But then they do whatever they're passionate about, like hiking or fishing or whatever.

1077
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:20,560
Oh, neat.

1078
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:21,560
The Outer Banks.

1079
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:24,840
I mean, I can't, it's the one trip we took, right?

1080
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:29,520
But that's what we were there for, was to see the lighthouses and then also enjoy, we

1081
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:31,000
went, played nine holes.

1082
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,980
We went to the beach, collected shells.

1083
00:46:33,980 --> 00:46:36,180
We did stuff like that.

1084
00:46:36,180 --> 00:46:37,960
But it was kind of funny to me.

1085
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:40,880
That was a super potent lighthouse culture area.

1086
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:42,080
Yeah, definitely.

1087
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:45,360
But also seen through the lens of us.

1088
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:46,360
That's what we're going for.

1089
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:51,760
I wonder, like people who went to Ocracoke, what percent of them went to see the lighthouse?

1090
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:52,760
Yeah.

1091
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:53,760
And like 10, 10, 30, 50.

1092
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:55,680
A lot of time you're like, oh cool, there's an island.

1093
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:56,680
We can go there.

1094
00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:57,680
And it's like things to do on the island.

1095
00:46:57,680 --> 00:46:59,680
And one of them is to go see the lighthouse.

1096
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:03,640
It's like, I'm thinking a lot of people would just be like, no.

1097
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:04,640
Yeah.

1098
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:09,460
Well, it's like you go to Western Europe and you know, what is there to do in every city?

1099
00:47:09,460 --> 00:47:13,200
Like in Germany, every city, there's a church you got to see, there's a bridge you got to

1100
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:17,120
see and there's some World War II thing that happened.

1101
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:23,320
Literally every city, there's the same three things and they're all really cool, but lighthouses

1102
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:24,320
are all unique.

1103
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:25,320
I'm a big fan.

1104
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:26,320
We love them.

1105
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:28,440
I'm a big fan here at the lighthouse low down.

1106
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:31,040
Lighthouse low down.

1107
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:32,040
Well thank you.

1108
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:33,040
Yeah, that's it.

1109
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:35,240
Everyone needs to go check out our map on the website.

1110
00:47:35,240 --> 00:47:36,400
I worked really hard on it.

1111
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:37,400
It took me like an hour.

1112
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:38,400
Is that a whole?

1113
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:39,400
Yeah.

1114
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:40,400
Wow.

1115
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:41,640
I was way slower than you.

1116
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:42,640
It looks really good.

1117
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:43,640
That's very cool.

1118
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:44,640
Yeah.

1119
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:45,640
It's fun.

1120
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:46,640
Interactive little map.

1121
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:51,600
We'll have to add old Mackinac on there and add our split rock, but I hope you guys enjoyed

1122
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:52,600
it.

1123
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:57,720
We have a review and another two lighthouse suggestions just in the past couple of days.

1124
00:47:57,720 --> 00:47:58,720
So that's kind of fun.

1125
00:47:58,720 --> 00:48:02,840
I added them to our list so we can do that, but thank you for reaching out.

1126
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:06,000
Everyone send us a voicemail, send us an email.

1127
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:10,480
We love to get communication from you guys and leave us a review if you liked listening

1128
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:14,080
to this podcast because we love reading what people have to say about it.

1129
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:18,320
Unless you don't like it, then get out of here.

1130
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:23,240
But you can check us out on Instagram at the Lighthouse Lowdown where we post pictures of

1131
00:48:23,240 --> 00:48:28,600
all of our lighthouses and you can check us out on YouTube and LinkedIn.

1132
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:32,720
We got anywhere you listen to your podcast, you can find us there.

1133
00:48:32,720 --> 00:48:33,720
All over the place.

1134
00:48:33,720 --> 00:48:34,720
Yeah.

1135
00:48:34,720 --> 00:48:49,080
Thanks for listening and we'll catch you next time on the Lighthouse Lowdown.