Leaving the Mare aux Canards, he skimmed through the water toward the starting line, between the lighthouse and the city fort.
Horton Point Lighthouse, Lighthouse Road.
Beyond the windows are hazy outlines of trees, houses, power lines, perhaps a lighthouse on a lonely outcropping.
The interior of the lighthouse was lined with New Haven brick and a 74-step granite stairway leads to the cast-iron lantern.
I was at the same time reading Muriel Spark's Complete Short Stories and serendipitously came across the line "she became a tall lighthouse sending out kindly beams which some took for welcome instead of warnings against the rocks", which I used as an epigraph.
The only power lines in sight illuminate the lighthouse.
ÎLE D'OUESSANT, France — From this farthest edge of France, where the rain comes horizontally off the ocean, there is nothing on the horizon except waves and lighthouses, marking the line between land and sea, sea and sky.
Migratory striped bass, or stripers, feed on shad, mullet and other baitfish trapped by the clay boulders that line the ocean floor surrounding the lighthouse.
Melnyk and I start in for shore just before reaching the invisible line drawn out from the Montauk lighthouse, where the riptide can get unbearably strong.
Lighthouse Point Park, Lighthouse Road.
