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27/12/2004: "Inside a lighthouse (1968) ......... kerosene lamp power."

This is the old era of lighthouses, when three men lived a lonely and strange existence on a tiny sand cay on the Great Barrier Reef and maintained a keroscene lamp throughout the night.

Not much difference to a jail. Except the food would have been better - delivered by boat every two weeks. Why three men and not two or four? Something to do with minimising arguments. Or not going mad?

These lighthouses have since been converted to automatic all along the coast. This one is at North Reef not that far from Heron Island and offshore from Gladstone and Yeppoon. It was visited during the Belgian Expedition (see following pictures).