Day 33: Dog River to Orange Beach
5. november, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Today is a modest skip across Mobile Bay to enter the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. This is the next (and final) part of my Great Loop voyage. From here it'll be the GICW, and a small bit of off-shore,Les mer
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The Mobile Bay Middle Lighthouse began operations on December 1, 1885, and Mobilians could observe a white light with red flashes every 30 seconds out in the bay. The facility was built on an iron undergirding, and both the tower and the hexagonal keeper's house it supported were patterned after lighthouses operating in Chesapeake Bay. The Mobile Bay Middle light used a Fourth Order lens, and when fog covered the bay, a bell sounded every five seconds as a fog signal. The lighthouse was automated in 1935 and deactivated in 1967. After decades of neglect, the lighthouse underwent almost $350,000 in renovations under the guidance of the Alabama Historical Commission. The original iron tower and light were replaced with a modest pole topped by a solar-powered red light.
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If they'd answered their phone as we came down the river, we'd have stayed here for two nights
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One Mercury 500R outboard motor costs between approximately USD72,000 and USD85,000, according to ChatGPT.