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Hillsboro Inlet Lighthouse

Hillsboro Inlet Lighthouse is a great lighthouse to photograph. It is located in Pompano Beach, Florida just north of Fort Lauderdale. There is a small park across the waterway from the lighthouse that has beautiful palm trees. From this location, you can photograph the lighthouse framed in palms. It makes a wonderful photograph.

I discovered this lighthouse last March when we were taking a drive in southern Florida with our little granddaughter. The park had a great playground so we were able to accomplish two functions in one stop....giving Rachel some play time and letting Grandma photograph a lighthouse. It doesn't get much better than that!!

The Lighthouse taken from the dock across the water.

Black and White Skeletal Lighthouse

The lighthouse at Hillsboro Inlet was built in 1906-1907. The tower is 142 feet tall and is a skeletal design. The bottom of the skeletal tower is white and the top half of the tower, along with the lantern is black. The lighthouse is operated by the Coast Guard and is only open to the public during tour dates. You can find out more information from the Hillsboro Lighthouse Preservation Society at www.hillsborolighthouse.org

Rachel and the Lighthouse

In this photo my granddaughter, Rachel, is standing in front of a ship's bell that is in the park across from the lighthouse. There is a good view of the lighthouse in the background.

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Hillsboro Inlet Lighthouse

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Lighthouse Framed in Palms

I had fun framing my photos with the Palm trees in the park. They made an interesting way to photograph the lighthouse.

The Hillsboro lighthouse was originally built in Detroit and then sent by barge down the Mississippi to the Gulf, where it was then purchased by the government and reassembled at distant Hillsboro Inlet.

In 1907 the government purchased the 1st order Fresnel lens, which still functions in the lighthouse today. It has a range of twenty-eight miles.

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There are some wonderful poems and songs written about lighthouses. This one by Walt Whitman is one of my favorites.

Leaves of Grass
From Montauk Point
By Walt Whitman

I stand as on some mighty eagle's beak,
Eastward the sea absorbing, viewing,
(nothing but sea and sky,)
The tossing waves, the foam,
the ships in the distance,
The wild unrest, the snowy, curling caps --
that inbound urge and urge of waves,
Seeking the shores forever.

··· Walt Whitman ···

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