Lighthouse Keepers

It was October when we lived in Rose Island Lighthouse for a week as "keepers." The weather was interesting because the changes were frequent and sometimes sudden. Fog patches would sometimes hide the large suspension bridge (see photo), except for the concrete abutments extending below the bridge into the water and there would be sunshine and blue sky above the bridge. A few minutes later, after a change of wind direction, the entire bridge would "emerge" bathed in sunshine. Then, not long after, the entire bridge would disappear in fog.

At one time, although we couldn't see it because of a fog bank, a large ocean-going passenger ship had anchored just to the south of the island. Before the fog came in, the anchorage had been empty- just open water between us and the mainland. When the fog was swept away this skyscraper sized vessel just appeared- seeming almost "on top of us-" a good arm could have hit it with a baseball. She had anchored in the fog and we hadn't heard a sound.