I love to see lighthouse and learn their history. I wanted to take more pictures of this cute lighthouse but it's on private land, so I had to take a picture from the van.
The passage between Bush Point on Whidbey Island and Marrowstone Island is the narrowest one in North Puget Sound and was first marked by a private light maintained by the Farmer family, early settlers of Bush Point. Each night, the Farmers would hang a kerosene lamp from a wooden gallows to aid mariners.
A post light, which employed a tubular-lantern light, was established at Bush Point by the Lighthouse Board on May 10, 1894.
The fog is so dense in the pictures, I can see why they wanted to install a lighthouse here to prevent shipwrecks.
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