When Hurricane Debby wants to ruin your birthday... you wait... wait for her weakest moment.
As the eye was over us, we jumped in the boat and made a run for it.
Point for @georgiacoastcharters making it happen!
Between 1836 and 1887, the British Imperial Lighthouse Service (ILS) commissioned 11 manned lightstations to be built as remote outposts in the Bahama Islands.
Manned and hand-operated continuously since 1863, the Elbow Reef Lightstation is now the only active Bahamian lighthouse to remain hand-wound and kerosene burning.
It is the only lighthouse of this kind in the world.
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Left Tybee Island, January 15th. Been offshore and been inshore. Been through it all! Just glad to get warm!
Trying to keep tabs on this journey is the hard part! Tonight, were staying in Port. St. Lucie.
SS Sapona
Concrete Steamer designed by Henry Ford. President Woodrow Wilson commissioned it for WWI bit it wasn't completed until 1920.
Carl Fisher bought it to convert into a "Floating Florida Club" but the dream never manifested. Fisher sold it in 1924 to Bruce Bethel a.k.a. The Mysterious One-Armed Man. Bethel was a notorious Rum Runner in Bimini and used the Sapona as a liquor warehouse.
The ship ran aground while being towed to Bimini and destroyed in the 1926 hurricane and the U.S. Military used it for WWII target practice.
