Lighthouses
Casco Bay is home to 7 lighthouses:
- Cape Elizabeth Lights;
- Portland Head Light;
- Ram Island Ledge Light;
- Spring Point Ledge Light;
- Portland Breakwater (Bug) Light;
- Halfway Rock Light;
- Pocahontas (Echo Point) Light. The smallest lighthouse registered with the United States Coast Guard, it stands only 6 feet tall.
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Famous quotes containing the word lighthouses:
“The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man’s thoughts.”
—Louis Aragon (1897–1982)
“the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell
buoys,
advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which
dropped things are bound to sink—
in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor
consciousness.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)