As promised, we got up to the top of the newly refurbished Cape Agulhas lighthouse this afternoon.
Here’s Instagram’s take on the 7.5 million candlepower light and lens.
The museum, small art gallery and tourist info places in the lighthouse building are simple, but informative and there’s a much more open feeling about the whole ground floor.
Upstairs, however, is as steep and as tight as ever, but if my daughter got up there when she was three years old, you have no excuse. 🙂
The newly revamped Cape Agulhas Lighthouse is looking superb and we have plans to get up to the top of it later in the week.
Obviously, it doesn’t light up during the day; this was the blazing hot sun, cleverly positioned behind the light by a brilliant photographer.Â
I have had literally no emails asking for a progress report on the lighthouse work at Cape Agulhas (see blog posts passim).
Still, that’s not going to stop me and since Cape Agulhas Tourism attempted to update us on how things were going earlier and since I was passing just now, I thought I’d let you know that they appear to have finished the tower and it looks very smart.
The rest of the building (including the balcony around the actual light, as you can see) is still under repair. No-one seems to know what they’re actually doing or how long things are going to take, and the general feeling is just “watch this space”.
So… er… just watch this space, I guess.
Consider yourselves informed.
This really isn’t a lighthouse blog, but…
The renovations to the Cape Agulhas lighthouse – as mentioned before on here – are still happening, although it does appear that they’ve really made some progress with things since we were last down here.
We went for a very quick walk (my ankle is also still under renovation, remember) up and around the building.
It’s actually rather sad to see it in such a state of disrepair, although I’m sure that a beautiful red and white hooped swan is soon to emerge from the current ugly ducking in a few weeks time.
I was emailed this picture and I want to share it on here because I think it’s fairly spectacular:
(It also features a lighthouse, and I like lighthouses.)
A little bit of detective work led me to this guy – Veselin Malinov – and a quick look at his recent photostream indicates that this shot was anything but a chance effort.
There are some amazing photos on there and it’s well worth popping over if you have a few minutes to spare.