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.
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.
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.
