March 29th, 2011.
When I started this quest a good friend sent me a message asking if I had marked off the closest Ligthouse to where we live. Port Adelaide - no I hadn't been there officially since we started our quest! No much closer.....
Of course the internet soon confirmed there was a Lighthouse at Marino, only ten minutes away. Why didn't I know this? A couple days later we were walking along the esplanade at Seacliff and there it was on the skyline - the Marino Lighthouse. Why had we never noticed it before? Sort of reminded me of when you buy a new car and you believe you have never seen a car the same colour or model on the road before. Once you own it you realise every second person has bought the same car!
So camera in hand we took off down the road to Marino. Once on the coast we walked down to the beach and could NOT find the lighthouse anywhere. We asked some locals and they looked confused and stated there wasn't one. Were we on a wild goose chase?
Eventually I looked up the Lighthouse on my iPhone maps and a few minutes later we were walking through the Marino Conservation Park towards the closest Lighthouse to where we live.
FACT: The photograph of the sign, above, says it all.
NOTE: Don't assume a local suburban Lighthouse is going to be on the coast with a paved footpath - wear inappropriate shoes!!
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