International Lighthouse Day

Another one of Nancy's photos of the lighthouse

Co-incidentally, a friend pointed out that last Sunday – the day of our quest to find the name of the Suomenlinna lighthouse – was International Lighthouse Day.

Association of Lighthouse Keepers – International Lighthouse Day

International Lighthouse Day

Sunday 22 August 2004

The third International Lighthouse Day intends to raise the profile of Lighthouses, Lightvessels and other Navigational Aids, promoting this rich aspect of our maritime heritage.

Guardian Unlimited | Online | How to save your life

Jack Schofield from the Guardian Online reports on the latest trend the media has glommed on to, called ‘life caching’. I’ve been seeing a bunch of references to the whole Life Caching ‘trend’ (and been interviewed) since an article from Trendwatching.com pegged it and made it a buzz name (though it is not a new concept).

Schofield says, “Nokia’s Christian Lindholm has captured this trend perfectly with Lifeblog software.” The article is pretty good. Read it here.

Suomenlinna quest

The lighthouse we went on a search for (this is Nancy's photo from her cruise ship). You can bearely see the opening we crawled through to get onto the rocks.
The lighthouse we went on a search for (this is Nancy’s photo from her cruise ship). You can bearely see the opening we crawled through to get onto the rocks.
Old radio from a museum-piece submarine we visited. Really cool.
Old radio from a museum-piece submarine we visited. Really cool.


Something about these massive walls is so cool.
Something about these massive walls is so cool.
Some famous dude's tomb. Interesting to see Christian and Greek Classical symbols on the tomb. How Neo-Classical.
Some famous dude’s tomb. Interesting to see Christian and Greek Classical symbols on the tomb. How Neo-Classical.




A lady named Nancy saw a picture of mine of a lighthouse on Suomenlinna. She asked if I knew its name. I said that I didn’t and neither of us were able to Google anything.

So I was bent on finding out and today dragged the family on a quest to find out the name of the damned lighthouse. The weather was grand, we explored our favorite haunts on the island, and made our way towards the mystery lighthouse.

Well, at the museum shop we found out that the lighthouse had no name. Also, none of the island maps gave it a name. So we took a bunch of photos to send Nancy and made the best of it.

What was really cool was that the lighthouse was on the outside of the battlements. They had placed a ladder so that folks could climb through a window in the battlement onto the open rocks at the sea’s edge to go be with the lighthouse. The wind was blowing right on us at something like Beaufort 7 or 8, something like 30 knots with whitecaps spewing froth and all. The rocks were dry fortunately, but it wouldn’t be hard to tumble down them and into the water with that wind.

Excitement for all.