Osprey Babies are All Grown Up! 🐣🐥
Successful fledglings of 6 baby osprey over the past two seasons since we built the new nest.
After a many tough seasons of failed nests, Ollie now has more kids than he can handle!
#osprey #nestcam
The Stanley Cup at the top of Lighthouse! 🏆
The historic Stanley Cup - the oldest and perhaps most prestigious sports trophy in North America - been around the world, but had never been to the top of an active Lighthouse!
The Cup was fabricated in 1892 by Lord Stanley - ten years before the Lighthouse was built in 1902, and is accompanied 24/7 by an NHL representative know as the “Keeper of the Cup.”
Each member of the newly crowned Stanley Cup championship team gets the opportunity to spend 24 hours with the trophy.
Congrats and thank you to Spencer Knight, goalie of the NHL Champion Florida Panthers!
Dock Repainted ✅ Thank you to @rings_end for donating supplies to get it done!
The steel dock - a 50x10’ barge - uses an industrial coating system comprised of an epoxy primer (PPG Amercoat 240) and an aliphatic polyurethane topcoat (Interthane 990).
Due to the harsh saltwater conditions and heavy abrasion from the ramp gangway and boat/foot traffic, it requires annual re-coating.
Amazing water clarity at this time of year in Long Island Sound. 🏝️ We surveyed the waters of Bayley Beach, Wee Burn, and RBA to spot potential hazards for swimmers, kayakers, and boaters.
Of note, you’ll see a few abandoned anchors and what’s left of an old telegraph cable that ran from the beach to the Lighthouse - the only connection to shore in its 125 year history.
Shortly after Greens Ledge Lighthouse was completed in 1902, the U.S. Lighthouse Service installed the cable linking the offshore station to the mainland near Rowayton.
The armored cable ran along the seabed and made landfall at the Roton Point Amusement Park - now Bayley Beach - allowing lighthouse keepers to communicate with harbor authorities, request supplies, and relay weather observations and sea conditions from the exposed ledge to stations on shore.
By the 1920s, wireless radio made the line largely obsolete, and the cable was abandoned in place—its rusted remnants still occasionally visible among the rocks and along the shoreline near Bayley Beach. And the “cable area” designation remains on nautical maps.
Since the line fell out of service, the lighthouse has operated completely off-grid, relying on independent power and communications systems ever since.
