Episode 94 - The Two Green Island Lighthouses of Nova Scotia

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Hi everyone, I'm Emily and I'm Vince and this

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is the lighthouse lowdown Very good much better

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than the last time much better Especially this

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is gonna post in two days. So we're kind of behind

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How is it that we change? We're not behind we

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were six months behind and now we're on time

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Come on. How's it that we changed? the release

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date, so that's like once a month and We still

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are recording two days before. You know why.

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Because of you. Because we're working on the

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house. Because Friday night we get home from

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celebrating a birthday in the family. And then

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I work for another three and a half hours on

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the house. That's the type of. That's what's

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going on. No. It's about a scheduling. A lack

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of scheduling. Sure. Okay. But see Vince was

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supposed to do this today. But it's me. Because

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I'm prepared. So give me a little, can I have

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a little? Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, there you

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go. Okay, so I'm actually covering six lighthouses

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today. Oh my gosh, no. It's five. How many? Technically,

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let's see. Technically. I actually do want to

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say six. Let's see. No, five. Two lighthouses,

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five. Okay. Yeah, because we're continuing on

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my Green Island. Green Island. This is like Green

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Island part four or five. I want to say these

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are. It's the fourth one. Yeah, four and five.

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And there's two more coming after this. So it's

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just Green Island is everywhere. But a lot of

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these are in Canada. So I don't know what happened

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exactly. But Canada. Lots of Green Island. Green

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Island. Because there's lots of Green Islands.

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So this is episode. And we're going to talk about

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Green Islands. Okay. But first, I have a history

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buoy. Let's go. Go me. We haven't had one in

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a long time. Yeah, because they mentioned something

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in one of the... Actually, our episode today

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and our next episode, and I didn't know what

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it was, but you're going to know what it is because

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I actually remember you talking about it not

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too long ago. Gun Cotton? I think that was your

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other husband. Gun Cotton? Yeah. No. Well, you're

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about to learn then. Okay, let it out. I was

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100 % certain that you would know what this is,

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so I'm kind of flabbergasted. My gavers are flashed.

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So originally it was discovered in 1833, and

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it was more powerful than the current gunpowder

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they were using, which was black gunpowder. And

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the final form was refined in 1865. So before

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this... When they first started figuring out

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how to make it, it was like really unstable.

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It would catch at low temperatures, even when

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it was wet and would cause like big accidental

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explosions. And so I can't remember which country

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it was that, um, they, uh, I'm not gonna be able

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to remember it. I'll tell you how, what it's

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made of. But, um, there was some country that

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was going to use it. It was like, oh, we're using

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this exclusively for our military. And then there

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was like two giant uncontrolled explosions and

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they banned it. That makes sense. I want to say

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it was like Austria or something, but I can't

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remember. Now they use the von Lenk Abel method,

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which is just the last names of the guys who

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figured it out. And it was produced from then

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on in this fashion. Cop or weaver's waste is

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cleaned. And it's basically like the little bits

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that are left over after like of like yarn or

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string or something after being used in textiles.

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And they clean it. They comb it and then they

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dip it in one part nitric acid, three parts sulfuric

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acid. And then they wring it out, dry it, and

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then they can mold it into any shape. Or I think

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today it's like ground down to a fine powder.

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Nitric acid and sulfuric acid. Okay. Yep. And

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the operations to make this was pretty dangerous

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because it was so like in operation. Yeah. If

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you had like any water exposed during the acid

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soaking and treatment, it could cause a fire.

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I know, I was like, kind of crazy. Any water,

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wow. I know. It's mostly, at the time, it was

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mostly used in torpedoes, torpedoes when it was

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first arrived. But by the end of the century,

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it completely replaced the black gunpowder that

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we used for the time because it was smokeless.

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And so that's the gunpowder that we had. Yeah,

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smokeless powder. I've never heard it called

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gun cotton, but okay. Yeah, because it was just

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made of cotton. Yeah, smokeless powder was a

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big, big breakthrough because it was... Like,

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if you fired a musket, you couldn't see shit.

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Oh, my gosh. Like, obviously, I wasn't there.

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But these, like, Civil War, I think Civil War

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reenactments where they fire, like, in film.

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And it, like, fills the battlefield with smoke?

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Yeah, you can't see. Really? Like, you fire a

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musket, and it's like, you know, first off, you

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turn your face away when you fire because the

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breach was open. So there's a big explosion right

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in front of your eyes. They didn't have safety

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glasses back then. Oh. Or like combat goggles

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or whatever. So there was nothing like that.

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So they would literally not look when they shot

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the rifle, which is insane. Like, he's over there.

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And they'd turn their head away. Boom. Point

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in his general direction. And then it didn't

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really matter. But as soon as you fired your

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four foot long rifle, then there's a big cloud

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of smoke in front of you. So smokeless powder

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was a big development. But I didn't know. I've

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never heard of it called gun cotton. So keep

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going. What else? What else you got? What'd they

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do with it? Where'd it go? What happened? You're

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about to be disappointed because that's the end.

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Torpedoes. Oh, man. Wait, wait. No, I have...

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Today, it's also used in rocket propellants,

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entertainment, and wood finishes. I don't know.

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This is crazy. So, one more time. I have some

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pictures up here. You take cotton leftovers.

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Yes, bits. And then you clean it. You clean really

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well because there can't be any oils left over

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in... The cotton. And then it has two types of

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acid on it. Yeah. And then it's different. And

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it's dry. And then it's dried. They like try

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and get as much acid out of it as possible. So

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there's a, the acid does some kind of fundamental

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change to its molecular structure. And that's

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the change. It's not like the acid itself. Yeah.

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It's not a reactive. Yeah. But, but, oh, what

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was the, the acid? Oh, something happened. Now

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I can't remember. I don't take. The problem is

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the history buoy can't be too long, so I can't

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take notes about, like, everything. But I see

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a lot more cool stuff than I cover in the history

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buoy. And one of them was, like, the structure

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of a cotton has, like, a tube in the middle.

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And so in the past, it was volatile because they

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weren't soaking that inner tube of the cotton.

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And so, like... It would leave some trace. Yeah,

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the air, it's like, yeah, there'd be some...

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moisture left in there or something and now they

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have some method I don't know if it's the acid

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or if it's like the combing or something but

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they it has to be the acid because it's like

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smokeless powder is made from cotton I've never

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considered I just thought it was chemical I mean

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everything is chemicals but I thought it would

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be more of a mineral thing but I guess that's

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what so it's also used in rocket motors probably

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solid fuel rocket motors which I know some people

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who work on those projects cool Entertainment

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as in magicians, when they're like. I don't have

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that on the soundboard over here. I have to make

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our own. So we need to add Joey's meow and a

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magician's fire. You could also sub in that sound

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I just made for someone chewing popcorn. So it

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could be anything. Or walking in snow. Okay.

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All right, gun cotton. Okay, yeah, so that was

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mentioned in today's episode and our next episode.

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So I thought I would cover it because I was like,

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what the heck is GunCon? Hopefully there's no

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explosive catastrophes at Green Island. No, actually,

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there's not. Yeah, it was a very light mention.

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It wasn't foreshadowed. Okay, let's go to our

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lighthouse. We're staying outside of the U .S.

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for now. Like I mentioned, Canada has lots of

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Green Islands. But this time we're going to Nova

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Scotia. originally we're on the west coast of

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canada now we're on the east coast and the last

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green island episode is this is exactly what

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i just said okay she just read the notes before

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we started recording she was like studying and

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i was trying to talk to her about other stuff

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yeah studying over here i just i took these notes

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over a week ago so like they're not fresh in

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my brain But I remembered what I was gonna say

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and then I was like I better read this next bullet

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point Okay Nova Scotia actually used to have

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four Green Island lighthouses why you would name

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all the lighthouses the same name I Don't know.

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There's got to be some Nova Scotia is pretty

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big though Yeah, but they were all near each

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other like they're in the scene. It's Nova Scotia's

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like that's not that big Can you imagine that's

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like an inside joke, but like you're gonna like,

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you know The guy from out of town is driving

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his boat. Like, you're going to want to pass

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Green Island. And then you're there. And he's

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like, if you see Green Island again, you've gone

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too far. But there's four, but then they changed

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two of the names. So then there's only two Green

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Island by now. So those are the two that I'm

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going to cover today. So we can wrap up Nova

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Scotia. Okay. That was so cute, your little yawn.

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Oh, also, Nova Scotia has 3 ,800 islands on the

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Atlantic. Okay, that's a lot. So that's like

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a ton. Plenty of lighthouses. There's four out

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of 3 ,800 possible islands. One in a thousand.

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Yeah. There's a chance. Good math. So the first,

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actually, we've never covered one like this.

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This is interesting. The first green island that

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I'm covering. was originally a fog station, and

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that was it. Really? Yes. It was in 1919, also

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called Shebog Point. Shebogan? No, just Shebog.

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Just Shebog. What's Shebogan? Sheboygan. It's

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in Wisconsin? Have we talked about that? Sheboygan?

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I don't know. I kind of feel like that's... Yeah,

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it's up there. We've talked about it. That sounds

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like a pronunciation that I've struggled with

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before. Yeah, it's in... Okay, keep going. Okay.

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It's off of Yarmouth. Is that how you pronounce

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it? Yeah, that sounds right. Is that how you

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pronounce it? The most scared face ever. Yarmouth?

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Is that how you pronounce it? It has an exposed

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ledge 800 meters south of Green Island with another

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800 meters of dangerous water. So something that

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needs to be marked. But they decided to just

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go with a fog station instead of a water station.

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They're just like, stay away. Yeah, very interesting.

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Only in fog, it would be making noise. Because

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then people couldn't see the... Yeah, but at

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this time, fog alarms were not automatic. So

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there needed to be a station there anyway. I

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don't know. So originally, it was supposed to

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be temporary. In foggy weather, fog bombs were

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detonated every 15 minutes. Do you have any more

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info on that? We've talked about fog cannons

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before. Yes. Which are the worst type. That was

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like... Nobody wanted to be letting off. Because

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you had to be firing a cannon. Yeah, exactly.

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Everything that goes with operating a cannon,

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you'd have to do every 15 minutes. Dangerous,

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difficult, loud. Yeah, so this was a step over.

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Fog bombs were a step over from that. I've never

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heard of a fog bomb. More user -friendly, but

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still not great. And they detonated every 15

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minutes. And if a vessel's signal was audible,

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like if a vessel was nearby, then it was every

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five minutes. I'll tell you how the fog bombs

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worked. Okay. The station was built on the island

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with a dwelling for just one keeper. So there's

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just one guy. And the fog station was manual,

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like I mentioned. The keeper had a bomb fog shed

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where an electric detonator attached to a metal

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tripod on the roof. So you have a shed with a

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tripod, right? You're going to set bombs off

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overhead? Yes. Of all the other bombs? Hold on.

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What was this building called again? Bomb Fog

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Shed. Bomb Fog Shed. That sounds like a song.

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What? It's like it could be worked into a song.

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I don't know. Caffeine's a hell of a drug. Keep

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going. Overhead bomb detonation. Yeah, so there's

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a metal tripod, and it has a pole on top that

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teeters back and forth, teeter -totter. Yes,

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okay, like it comes down, and then it raises

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back up. Yes, they'd pull down one side, and

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they would attach the gun cotton, right? Similar.

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This mechanism is like an oil derrick. It's like

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there were early lighthouses. There was a way

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to lift the light up in the air with this big

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pole. Yeah, really, really early lighthouses,

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yes. With the same type of like lever. Where

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it's like you want it to be higher, but you can't

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get up there. So you bring it down to you and

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then you lift it back up. Get it away from me.

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Yeah. And then you put gun cotton in the little

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barb and it would go up to the top. So he'd lift

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it up and then he would, there's a fuse attached

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to that, to the electric detonator. So then he

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would go inside. The bomb shelter. Oh, that makes

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sense. Yeah, and then he would detonate it, so

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it would explode on the top of the tripod at

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the end of the pole up in the air. So it was

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a bright flash of light, small explosion. What

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was their hearing damage like? Every 15 minutes.

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I know. There's no way that they were having

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hearing protection. I'd be so curious. Is there

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any demonstrations? Oh, there's got to be, like

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YouTube videos. Awesome. Yeah, I vaguely feel

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like we've watched one before. Maybe that was

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just for the light. Cape Cod, that life -saving

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station we went to. Yeah, yeah. They have a demonstration

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there. Yes. On the... The breeches buoy. Breeches

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buoy, yes. And also the gun, the Lyle gun. Oh,

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yes. Which shoots, it's a little cannon. It shoots

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a weight out and the weight is tied to a rope

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and the rope gets on a ship and then they can

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use the breeches buoy to get people saved to

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the coast. Crazy. But like, so they're firing

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a mini cannon. Yeah. You know, but it's, I don't

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know. Three feet long, two feet long. It sits

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on the ground. But somewhere, someone is demonstrating

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gun cotton. They're like, imagine watching a

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little boom. It would be awesome. Also very dangerous.

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Yeah, sounds cool, but probably just the most

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irritating thing in the world for them to do.

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1936, the fog bombs were replaced with an acetylene

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gun that went off every two minutes. Okay. So

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a little higher frequency, but probably less

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complicated. 1964. A lot of time has passed.

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A lighthouse was added to the island. So finally

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we're caught up. 1964. Yeah. And you know what?

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It wasn't in service for very long. Five years

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before we landed on the moon. Wow. They're like,

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let's build a stack of bricks with a light at

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the top. Hey, let's not talk down. I'm just saying

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technology -wise. Like a lighthouse in the early

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1800s. Pinnacle of technology. Fresnel lens.

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Optics. Yeah. The beacons involved. And then

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1965. Okay. Well, I mean. I think it's cool.

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What's the problem? Tell me more. Before we go

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on. Before we go on. Where I'm from, Hays, Kansas,

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USA. Most American city, 1996, by the way. There's

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a small university called Fort Hays State University.

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And they have a football stadium. It's really

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cool. It's made of limestone. But they have a

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cannon, which they don't explain. It doesn't

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make any sense because they are the Tigers, Fort

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Hayes State Tigers. But there's a cannon that

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they fire when a touchdown is scored or a field

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goal is scored by Fort Hayes State. And you can

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watch it. It's in the stadium. And it's aiming

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at the, roughly, aiming at the crowd. Oh, there's

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nothing. There's no projectile. Yeah. But they

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take a balloon of acetylene like a like a. Oh,

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bless you. Thank you. Like a birthday balloon.

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They fill it with acetylene from a welding rig

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and they put it down the barrel and then they're

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holding a torch like a welding torch. Is it hearing

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protection? I hope so. But. And then they're

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watching. I watch them and they're watching the

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game. And then when there's a touchdown, they

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want to set it off like with the big woo. So

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they're ready. Promptly set off. Open flame next

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to the settling cannon. That's kind of cool.

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They feed it and boom. It is loud. It is gunshot

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loud at the audience, which is 100 yards away.

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That's crazy. So all that is to say, I wonder

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to learn more about the acetylene guns used.

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Well, your next episode, hopefully, I mean, we

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never really know. Future history, but it can't

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be any time. Ever since she became my wife, she

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starts picking on me for not getting my lighthouse.

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I'm just getting more comfortable telling you

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my opinions. Oh, boy. I thought that was cute.

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When you first said touchdown, you said touch.

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You said like touchdown instead of touchdown.

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Wait a minute. It's not a question. I'm Ron Burgundy.

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Can you imagine? Goal? I don't know. You said

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it funny. Okay. Anyway, it took me a while to

00:18:05.170 --> 00:18:07.230
realize. I was like, what? All right. Sorry for

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the detour, folks. Back to Green Island. Okay.

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I pulled up a picture of the map. I kind of forgot

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this was here. So if anyone's watching on our

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YouTube channel, you can see where we are. We're

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at, you know. By the way. The very bottom of

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Nova Scotia. All of our episodes are on YouTube.

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uh as of recently so here you go what do you

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mean like the first 20 or not i'm working on

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that that's a sunday goal right now as we air

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we also air on youtube the last episode wow good

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job all right cool yeah here's the map we have

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a little island out off to the side some dangerous

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area so oh pretty here's a good picture let's

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see so The lighthouse was out of the island in

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64. Square tower connected to the corner of a

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square single story building. And in 1981, the

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station was de -staffed. 65 to 81. So it was

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like, yeah, like 17 years or something. Yeah.

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I pulled up a picture. There's some guys walking

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around and it's clearly, I mean, it's painted.

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It looks really nice. It's not like. No, it's

00:19:07.420 --> 00:19:08.740
a nice lighthouse. Yeah, it's not a bad looking

00:19:08.740 --> 00:19:10.359
lighthouse. It's got seagulls happening. Yeah,

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of course. This was like early 2000s and not.

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current, so I'll show you what it looks like

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today. Can't be that early. Photo's pretty good

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quality. I'm just saying. I mean, yeah. The Royal

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Canadian Mounted Police use the dwellings as

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training buildings. The Mounties. Let's go. You

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know what that is? I don't know what that is.

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They ride horses. Really? Yeah. That's so cool.

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Yeah. They came to an island to train? Probably.

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I bet they were. I'll be honest with you. They

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probably are like rolling their eyes if anyone

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actually knows. I think they ride horses as part

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of their job, but the mounted. That's probably

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a broader government body, the Royal Police.

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I know one of the things that they're known for,

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for people like me who are tourists, is that

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they sometimes ride horses while on patrol, like

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in cities. That's so cool. It's cool, yeah. But

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I bet you they do some special forces training

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out here. Yeah. Crawl through the grass. A little

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more than just riding horses. Right. Nowadays,

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solar panels power the light and the foghorn,

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so it's still operating. But the lantern room

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was removed and replaced with a metal tower in

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2014. We lost our red lantern room. Why they

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got to do that shit? It's terrible. This looks

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like... This looks like a missile silo now. How

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is this easier to maintain? This looks like some

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nuclear disaster went off, and this is what's

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left over. Someone had a bunch of unistrat left

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over, and they're like, you know what, I could...

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Unistrut is a, it's a strut channel. It's shaped

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like a C or like a strut. Oh, it's, it's a piece

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of metal, cheap galvanized steel usually. And

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it's shaped like a C and then you can build structures

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out of it. So supports for piping, for duct work,

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for electrical. And then it connects to threaded

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rod like we have in the basement. Yeah. And then

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nuts and bolts can hold it together. But it's

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very, it's like common. hanger material for uh

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mechanical stuff but it's not the most beautiful

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is what i'm saying they could have just left

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it a lighthouse done anything sorry guys someone

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probably worked really hard on this but well

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no probably not oh it's just not it's not inspired

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it's got some red and white on it which is good

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slap some paint on there no looks like it's made

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of pallets whatever they just like to do that

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to us hurt us Break my hopes. Break my heart.

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What happened to the lantern room? I don't know.

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Like, not only is it. It's not there. Yeah. Not

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only is it gone, it's also not there. I don't

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know. Oftentimes in the past, in more past, they

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would put them in boxes in like a storage warehouse.

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That's for the U .S. High eyebrow. You know,

00:22:02.589 --> 00:22:05.910
like Indiana Jones. In someone's backyard. What

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is it called? Ark of the Covenant. There's so

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many things. Yeah. Crystal Skull. Ark of the

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Covenant. There's probably lots of Fresnel lenses

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in there. And someone. Though it was never specified.

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In their living room. Don't get me all fired

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up because I want one. But it was never specified

00:22:19.930 --> 00:22:21.569
whether or not this had a Fresnel lens. I would

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assume in 1964 that they would go. Beacon. It's

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close to beacon time. Yeah, they probably. Just

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had like a modern... It's on the... I mean, I

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don't really know. I would say it's on the fence.

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Yeah. Right on the edge. 40s, definitely Fresnel

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Lens. 70s, definitely Beacon. 70s, 80s. So it's

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in there. Transitional phase. Don't really know.

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So that's the end of our first Green Island.

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Basically still alive. I'll be honest. Still

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operating. I would still go there. Yeah, I would

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still... I mean, the island itself is beautiful,

00:22:53.799 --> 00:22:57.759
so... All that trash I talked. Yeah. And the

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Mounties are training here. That's kind of cool.

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Yeah. It'd be a cool thing to see. Very nice.

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So our second Green Island lighthouse in Nova

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Scotia lies off the coast of Petit -de -Gras.

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Okay, French. And Isle Madame. This lighthouse

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had four versions, which is what I was talking

00:23:19.279 --> 00:23:23.180
about. That last lighthouse was so short -lived,

00:23:23.259 --> 00:23:25.480
only one version. This next lighthouse, four

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versions. And none of them really explained why

00:23:30.049 --> 00:23:31.849
that there was a new lighthouse built. And they

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were all built in the same place. So it was like,

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I think only one of them, or only like, only

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two would exist at a time. One would be like

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repurposed to a dwelling or whatever. Okay. But

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they were like demolishing and rebuilding the

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lighthouse over and over. I don't know. Interesting.

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Seems expensive. So here's our new map. So Nova

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Scotia. Yeah. More northeast in Nova Scotia.

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We're in a little... What's the biggest, nearest

00:24:02.319 --> 00:24:09.160
thing? What do you mean? Boy, folks, if you're

00:24:09.160 --> 00:24:11.519
looking at this YouTube, I can't pronounce a

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lot of things that are on the screen. I know.

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I had to look up Petit Degras. Petit Degras.

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I'm going to say Cape Breton Island is north.

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It looks to be awfully large. Yeah, so here's

00:24:24.380 --> 00:24:26.160
a little map. We're moving around. I kind of

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wish I had backed up a little bit so you could

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see where we are in Nova Scotia, but it works

00:24:29.920 --> 00:24:32.539
fine. Okay. Here, I'll pull up the first picture.

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Cool. 1865, so 100 years before the last lighthouse

00:24:37.579 --> 00:24:39.279
we were talking about was built. Construction

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began on Greta Island to mark the northern side

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of the entrance to... Shed a buck toe. I think

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that's right. Shadabucto. Okay. Bay. I'm always

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so focused on the pronunciation of the first

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part that I'm like, there's a long pause, and

00:25:04.720 --> 00:25:08.519
then I'm like, island. Bay. The contractor struggled

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to find properly seasoned lumber, and so it didn't

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complete the construction until two years later

00:25:15.059 --> 00:25:20.369
in 67. 1867. However, a fixed white light was

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added to the unfinished lighthouse in 65, so

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it was actually lit long before the actual construction

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was done. And they replaced that with a red light

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in 66 to help distinguish it from the white lights

00:25:32.289 --> 00:25:34.930
of Cranberry Island, which is nearby. Oh, I like

00:25:34.930 --> 00:25:36.490
that. I know, and we talk about this a lot, how

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the lights have to change to suit the current

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conditions. They built it on the summit of Green

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Island because this island is like... There's

00:25:46.690 --> 00:25:49.630
very clearly a point in the middle. Nice. It's

00:25:49.630 --> 00:25:51.769
kind of cute. It's like if somebody drew a little

00:25:51.769 --> 00:25:53.950
island. That's kind of what it was. Picturesque

00:25:53.950 --> 00:25:56.349
island. Yes. And I have some pictures, so I'll

00:25:56.349 --> 00:25:59.769
get to it. It had one and a half story keepers

00:25:59.769 --> 00:26:02.269
dwelling with a 12 -sided lantern room on its

00:26:02.269 --> 00:26:04.130
roof. So this is the picture we have up. It's

00:26:04.130 --> 00:26:06.289
got a unique cupola. Yeah, it's pretty cool.

00:26:06.690 --> 00:26:10.549
That's like a two ventilation sort of cupola

00:26:10.549 --> 00:26:13.289
thing going on. They're like vent balls, but

00:26:13.289 --> 00:26:18.910
those are like vent. It's like a hood. Looks

00:26:18.910 --> 00:26:22.609
good. Yeah, it's cute. Lots of support points

00:26:22.609 --> 00:26:24.910
connected to the rest of the house, which is

00:26:24.910 --> 00:26:26.089
interesting. Yeah, which is interesting. Like

00:26:26.089 --> 00:26:28.049
all of this. Like guy wires type of thing. Yeah.

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They're connected to the roof and the siding.

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We see those in today's version of the lighthouse,

00:26:33.789 --> 00:26:37.609
too. So it's really top heavy and super windy

00:26:37.609 --> 00:26:39.930
at the summit. Not that it's a huge summit. You'll

00:26:39.930 --> 00:26:43.009
see it. Mount Sunflower in Kansas. It's pretty

00:26:43.009 --> 00:26:46.740
cute. 1875, the light characteristic was changed

00:26:46.740 --> 00:26:50.240
to a revolving red and white light. Okay, I like

00:26:50.240 --> 00:26:52.779
that. Super cool, I know. The light had two faces,

00:26:52.799 --> 00:26:55.440
each with two lamps with 22 -inch reflectors.

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So we were early enough and not... Reflectors

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still. Yeah, we didn't have the Fresnelens technology

00:27:02.500 --> 00:27:06.380
installed yet. We had one revolution every 90

00:27:06.380 --> 00:27:09.160
seconds, and they said, quote, a great improvement

00:27:09.160 --> 00:27:12.420
to a most important coast light. Kind of fun,

00:27:12.519 --> 00:27:14.769
I would agree. This was also a three -keeper

00:27:14.769 --> 00:27:16.769
station, and I'm pretty sure all the pictures

00:27:16.769 --> 00:27:19.710
that I have for this today include men in there,

00:27:19.789 --> 00:27:21.890
which we've said is a pretty good indication

00:27:21.890 --> 00:27:24.210
of, like, if it's a professional photo. Yeah.

00:27:25.329 --> 00:27:28.069
If there's men posing in front of the lighthouse.

00:27:28.190 --> 00:27:32.630
Well, cameras were very rare until, what, mid

00:27:32.630 --> 00:27:35.589
-1900s? I mean, people generally didn't have

00:27:35.589 --> 00:27:37.529
cameras as personal. Oh, yeah, yeah, for sure.

00:27:37.809 --> 00:27:39.809
So it was a big deal to take a photo. Mm -hmm.

00:27:40.349 --> 00:27:42.890
In the same year, a schooner ran aground on Green

00:27:42.890 --> 00:27:45.750
Island in dense fog. The keeper saved the crew,

00:27:45.930 --> 00:27:48.849
which is awesome. And he was awarded a silver

00:27:48.849 --> 00:27:52.910
watch as, like, a thank you. Cool. That is cool.

00:27:53.049 --> 00:27:54.650
It is kind of fun. It's like, here, let me give

00:27:54.650 --> 00:27:57.950
you something practical and something that can

00:27:57.950 --> 00:28:00.150
be used, like, as an heirloom. Silver. It'd be

00:28:00.150 --> 00:28:01.990
cool. It's very lighthouse. It's passed down

00:28:01.990 --> 00:28:03.630
in its family even today. I was going to say,

00:28:03.650 --> 00:28:05.130
I wonder where it's at today. They still have

00:28:05.130 --> 00:28:06.609
it? They still have it. That's really cool. I

00:28:06.609 --> 00:28:09.380
know. I love it. but the ship was a total loss.

00:28:09.519 --> 00:28:12.220
And even though this happened, a fog alarm was

00:28:12.220 --> 00:28:15.299
not added until 1924, so we still had some time.

00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:18.420
They added a diaphone foghorn, which sounded

00:28:18.420 --> 00:28:21.099
a grouping of three three -second blasts per

00:28:21.099 --> 00:28:24.440
minute. I love diaphones. Why? Oh, just the sound.

00:28:24.500 --> 00:28:27.460
Yeah, the two tones that are, is it harmonic,

00:28:27.700 --> 00:28:30.579
I guess? Really satisfying. I can hum and whistle

00:28:30.579 --> 00:28:33.720
at the same time. It's the same thing. I can.

00:28:33.980 --> 00:28:37.319
Yeah, no, I believe you. 1927, so three years

00:28:37.319 --> 00:28:39.839
later, a new lighthouse was built on the island.

00:28:40.119 --> 00:28:43.259
No explanation. We don't need it, I guess. Upgrade,

00:28:43.259 --> 00:28:46.460
upgrade. It was a two -story dwelling with an

00:28:46.460 --> 00:28:49.240
octagonal lantern room. Make me happy. It is

00:28:49.240 --> 00:28:52.180
an upgrade. Yeah, it is nice. And now it's two

00:28:52.180 --> 00:28:54.500
-story instead of story and a half, so a little

00:28:54.500 --> 00:28:56.900
more space for the keepers. Like we said, a three

00:28:56.900 --> 00:29:00.900
-keeper light station, so there's got to be more

00:29:00.900 --> 00:29:03.849
room for the people. And the lantern room is

00:29:03.849 --> 00:29:06.450
really pretty. I like this house. Although it's

00:29:06.450 --> 00:29:10.309
lost its fun vent system. You know, it's got

00:29:10.309 --> 00:29:12.990
a more subtle vent. Yeah. Give it that. This

00:29:12.990 --> 00:29:15.769
looks like the monster house a little bit. It's

00:29:15.769 --> 00:29:19.990
got the nose and everything. Also, their chimney

00:29:19.990 --> 00:29:23.750
has to be above the level of the windows. Because

00:29:23.750 --> 00:29:26.670
maybe smoke or grease would blow onto the windows?

00:29:26.950 --> 00:29:28.930
Yeah, you wouldn't want to be obstructing the...

00:29:28.930 --> 00:29:32.059
I've never... But by putting the chimney above

00:29:32.059 --> 00:29:34.680
it, they are obstructing the light. On one side,

00:29:34.839 --> 00:29:37.480
yeah. Probably the landward side. They probably

00:29:37.480 --> 00:29:40.220
picked very carefully which side the chimney

00:29:40.220 --> 00:29:42.420
would be on. But that's interesting. I've never

00:29:42.420 --> 00:29:45.900
seen that before. I haven't either. Never. Interesting.

00:29:45.900 --> 00:29:50.579
So tall. It's tall. It's a tall chimney. So,

00:29:50.579 --> 00:29:51.460
yeah. Really cool, though. That's interesting.

00:29:51.700 --> 00:29:56.660
Cool photo. Good visual of engineering choices.

00:29:57.519 --> 00:30:00.839
Architecture. To make do with what you got. You

00:30:00.839 --> 00:30:02.680
know, we've never talked about it, I don't think,

00:30:02.700 --> 00:30:05.480
in depth, but the structure, like this is not

00:30:05.480 --> 00:30:08.180
a typical house. No. Like it's got to have a

00:30:08.180 --> 00:30:11.079
brick structure or some stone or something crazy

00:30:11.079 --> 00:30:14.460
underneath the actual tower. Yeah. Because it's,

00:30:14.460 --> 00:30:18.119
right, it's very heavy up top. It's not a standard

00:30:18.119 --> 00:30:22.220
roof. Pretty cool. Really cool. It had two diesel

00:30:22.220 --> 00:30:26.339
generators that were installed in 1963 to electrify

00:30:26.339 --> 00:30:28.720
the station, and it had a flashing white light.

00:30:30.539 --> 00:30:33.819
In 1968, the third lighthouse was built. I don't

00:30:33.819 --> 00:30:38.200
know. Steel skeletal tower with octagonal aluminum

00:30:38.200 --> 00:30:41.740
lantern. Okay, going steel. Wow. That's a very

00:30:41.740 --> 00:30:44.480
green island. Isn't it cute? Yeah. And you'll

00:30:44.480 --> 00:30:47.259
see it's the most subtle summit ever. Where do

00:30:47.259 --> 00:30:50.640
they access the water? What do you mean? There's

00:30:50.640 --> 00:30:52.119
no dock or anything. Oh, there's like a little

00:30:52.119 --> 00:30:55.079
bit of a... A beach? A beach, yeah. Okay. I bet

00:30:55.079 --> 00:30:57.630
that's it. So there's a couple structures here

00:30:57.630 --> 00:31:00.890
now. Our new tower and then the two houses. And

00:31:00.890 --> 00:31:02.809
then what's that other item? I can't tell. I

00:31:02.809 --> 00:31:04.890
don't, I think it's a foundation. Okay. Yeah.

00:31:05.609 --> 00:31:07.769
Original one probably. Yeah. And I don't think

00:31:07.769 --> 00:31:10.109
this is not the skeletal tower. This is the fourth

00:31:10.109 --> 00:31:13.569
tower. So at that time when they had the skeletal

00:31:13.569 --> 00:31:15.589
tower, the second lighthouse had its lantern

00:31:15.589 --> 00:31:17.849
removed and was used as a dwelling. So that stuck

00:31:17.849 --> 00:31:20.869
around. Okay. So now we had two buildings and

00:31:20.869 --> 00:31:24.190
they reduced it to a two keeper station. I don't

00:31:24.190 --> 00:31:26.200
know if it was just. Because it was electrified,

00:31:26.339 --> 00:31:30.220
they needed less people involved. But in 1986,

00:31:30.819 --> 00:31:32.900
the fourth lighthouse was built, which is what

00:31:32.900 --> 00:31:35.180
the picture has, which is a round fiberglass

00:31:35.180 --> 00:31:37.839
tower with a red lantern room, 38 feet tall.

00:31:38.220 --> 00:31:41.220
The station was de -staffed and automated at

00:31:41.220 --> 00:31:43.799
that time. Fiberglass, you say? That's pretty

00:31:43.799 --> 00:31:46.319
rare. So you can see how top -heavy it is, and

00:31:46.319 --> 00:31:50.299
it has all these support... Guy wires. Yeah.

00:31:51.039 --> 00:31:54.799
Lots of guy wires. but unfortunately, as you

00:31:54.799 --> 00:31:56.819
can see from the photos, the rest of the dwellings

00:31:56.819 --> 00:31:59.079
were boarded up, and today only the concrete

00:31:59.079 --> 00:32:01.299
foundations and the fiberglass tower remain,

00:32:01.500 --> 00:32:03.740
but the tower is still operating. It has solar

00:32:03.740 --> 00:32:06.680
panels and still runs today, but you can see

00:32:06.680 --> 00:32:08.900
in this photo that's just where the house used

00:32:08.900 --> 00:32:13.119
to be, and I zoomed in on Google Maps, and you

00:32:13.119 --> 00:32:15.900
can see where the buildings were. I hate to say

00:32:15.900 --> 00:32:18.779
it. Those buildings didn't fall on their own.

00:32:19.519 --> 00:32:22.130
I'm thinking it's really windy. I think they

00:32:22.130 --> 00:32:24.930
demolished them. You think so? Yeah. I feel like

00:32:24.930 --> 00:32:30.769
they would say so. I feel like they either took

00:32:30.769 --> 00:32:32.509
the materials somewhere else and reused them

00:32:32.509 --> 00:32:35.369
to build something else, or they didn't want

00:32:35.369 --> 00:32:39.509
people living out there unplanned. That's a good

00:32:39.509 --> 00:32:42.089
point. You leave a couple of nice houses on an

00:32:42.089 --> 00:32:45.769
island. It's a reachable island. Unmanned. You

00:32:45.769 --> 00:32:48.640
could probably swim in there. But yeah, there's

00:32:48.640 --> 00:32:50.400
a picture here. Also, you can see the tiny summit.

00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:53.279
Yeah. Really cool. I mean, I like the final lighthouse.

00:32:53.400 --> 00:32:54.960
I'm glad it's still a lighthouse. Yeah, it's

00:32:54.960 --> 00:32:56.380
not bad. I mean, it's a little goofy looking.

00:32:56.500 --> 00:32:58.700
It's like a big head. Fiberglass is interesting.

00:32:58.920 --> 00:33:03.819
Yeah. Like a Jeep Corvette. Cool. That's it.

00:33:03.980 --> 00:33:07.599
That's our five Green Island lighthouses. A series

00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:10.420
of Green Island lighthouses. Yep. On Nova Scotia.

00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:13.240
And I can't remember. I think the next two are

00:33:13.240 --> 00:33:15.299
also in Canada, but I don't remember if any of

00:33:15.299 --> 00:33:17.140
them. I don't think any of them are in Nova Scotia.

00:33:17.819 --> 00:33:20.140
But you'll have to stick around to find out.

00:33:20.259 --> 00:33:22.839
That's right. And on this one, we just have the

00:33:22.839 --> 00:33:26.599
one life -save story and nothing else, nothing

00:33:26.599 --> 00:33:29.099
crazy happened there. No. Which is, honestly,

00:33:29.220 --> 00:33:31.680
that's a good record to have such a long time

00:33:31.680 --> 00:33:35.920
with no huge stories. And also, these are...

00:33:36.329 --> 00:33:39.069
canadian lighthouses so i have less access to

00:33:39.069 --> 00:33:42.569
the history records are lesser for us lhs keeps

00:33:42.569 --> 00:33:45.589
very very good records of what happens at u .s

00:33:45.589 --> 00:33:48.789
lighthouses and occasionally they cover lighthouses

00:33:48.789 --> 00:33:51.390
like nova scotia but there's just not a lot of

00:33:51.390 --> 00:33:53.490
information to be had on stuff that happened

00:33:53.490 --> 00:33:58.849
there so cool excuse me very pretty yeah All

00:33:58.849 --> 00:34:00.910
very interesting, very different lighthouses,

00:34:00.930 --> 00:34:02.670
even though they're in the same locations. It's

00:34:02.670 --> 00:34:05.190
like they were trying out all the trends in lighthouse

00:34:05.190 --> 00:34:09.050
construction. Yeah, it'd be cool to zoom out

00:34:09.050 --> 00:34:13.550
and look at all of Nova Scotia or Canada's lighthouses

00:34:13.550 --> 00:34:17.409
at these times to see if, you know, during this

00:34:17.409 --> 00:34:19.510
decade, a bunch of the same type of lighthouse

00:34:19.510 --> 00:34:23.050
were built. Yeah. Or if it was group by group.

00:34:24.039 --> 00:34:26.400
That's interesting because I remember like a

00:34:26.400 --> 00:34:29.039
lot of Scottish lighthouses look very similar

00:34:29.039 --> 00:34:30.760
regardless of when they were built. They have

00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:33.320
like some of the same structuring. So I wonder

00:34:33.320 --> 00:34:35.639
if that happened for Canada as well. Yeah. Because

00:34:35.639 --> 00:34:38.820
U .S. is like very different depending on the

00:34:38.820 --> 00:34:44.739
region. And so a lot of Maine lighthouses or

00:34:44.739 --> 00:34:47.059
like, you know, northeast lighthouses look very

00:34:47.059 --> 00:34:49.300
similar. Yeah. Like a lot of them look just like.

00:34:51.559 --> 00:34:53.300
Why am I thinking Curituck? It's not Curituck.

00:34:53.340 --> 00:34:54.719
The Cape Cod. There are lots like that. But yeah,

00:34:54.760 --> 00:35:00.059
Cape Cod. Victorian. Nauset Light. Nauset. Yeah.

00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:03.019
Oh, yeah. Chatham Light. Nauset and Chatham are

00:35:03.019 --> 00:35:06.360
both the cast iron cylinders. Yeah. Very cute.

00:35:06.460 --> 00:35:08.719
Very recognizable. I was listening to a podcast

00:35:08.719 --> 00:35:11.239
recently, and the guy was talking about politics,

00:35:11.440 --> 00:35:14.199
which is not super fun. But he was saying politics,

00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:16.539
he was arguing that politics should be regional.

00:35:17.150 --> 00:35:19.369
In the city of New York, maybe you have a different

00:35:19.369 --> 00:35:21.969
mayor than you would have in the city of Miami.

00:35:22.409 --> 00:35:25.809
And he was talking about how different things

00:35:25.809 --> 00:35:27.289
are applicable to different places culturally

00:35:27.289 --> 00:35:30.570
and practically. And I think it's funny to see

00:35:30.570 --> 00:35:33.809
a parallel in lighthouse construction because

00:35:33.809 --> 00:35:35.989
there's some areas where they have trouble finding,

00:35:36.110 --> 00:35:38.889
in this case, seasoned timber, so dried lumber

00:35:38.889 --> 00:35:41.309
that they could use to build a structure and

00:35:41.309 --> 00:35:44.610
actually delayed their construction versus a

00:35:44.610 --> 00:35:48.449
fiberglass tower actually. Makes sense. But they

00:35:48.449 --> 00:35:50.130
didn't have fiberglass when they built that wood

00:35:50.130 --> 00:35:53.369
structure. It wasn't available. So I don't know

00:35:53.369 --> 00:35:56.309
if that is a one -to -one parallel. But I was

00:35:56.309 --> 00:35:58.369
also thinking about the reason lighthouses look

00:35:58.369 --> 00:36:01.829
the way they look here and there is often because

00:36:01.829 --> 00:36:04.449
of contracts. So the East Coast, there was, I

00:36:04.449 --> 00:36:05.710
can't remember his name, but he built a bunch

00:36:05.710 --> 00:36:07.989
of lighthouses. And then they went and built,

00:36:08.070 --> 00:36:10.659
I think it was eight. all at the same time on

00:36:10.659 --> 00:36:13.320
the West Coast, California. So like San Francisco

00:36:13.320 --> 00:36:16.960
famously has a certain style of lighthouse that

00:36:16.960 --> 00:36:19.840
was on the East Coast. And so some people will

00:36:19.840 --> 00:36:22.900
equate that to be an East Coast lighthouse. Some

00:36:22.900 --> 00:36:24.460
people will say, no, no, no, that's a West Coast

00:36:24.460 --> 00:36:26.340
lighthouse. And people who know both of them

00:36:26.340 --> 00:36:29.000
might say, well, no, no, that's just an American

00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:32.179
-style lighthouse. It's like, no, actually, that

00:36:32.179 --> 00:36:34.840
guy came from England, and then it's this whole

00:36:34.840 --> 00:36:40.300
thing. not to get too far off the rail, but the

00:36:40.300 --> 00:36:42.739
West Coast lighthouses, they lost a lot of the

00:36:42.739 --> 00:36:45.400
cast iron in a shipwreck as it was going around.

00:36:45.500 --> 00:36:47.400
Oh, yeah. I think the Horn of Africa. I don't

00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:49.619
think the Panama Canal was built yet, going from

00:36:49.619 --> 00:36:52.119
east to west coast. So then they made their own

00:36:52.119 --> 00:36:54.119
forgings on the west coast because they didn't

00:36:54.119 --> 00:36:56.460
have time to get a new lot. Yeah. And so parts

00:36:56.460 --> 00:36:58.260
of the structure are different than the design,

00:36:58.440 --> 00:37:01.059
which makes for... Pretty cool. So just like

00:37:01.059 --> 00:37:04.179
looking at Green Island here in Nova Scotia,

00:37:04.199 --> 00:37:06.960
the four generations. There's a story to each

00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:09.360
one of them, and it depends on a lot of things.

00:37:09.579 --> 00:37:14.420
Pretty cool. Thanks. Yeah. That's it. That's

00:37:14.420 --> 00:37:17.480
all I got for my two, technically two, Green

00:37:17.480 --> 00:37:20.300
Island Lighthouses today. Very nice. In Nova

00:37:20.300 --> 00:37:22.320
Scotia, and we'll be going somewhere else next

00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:24.340
time. Thanks for covering us. I'm almost ready,

00:37:24.480 --> 00:37:29.139
so we'll be on time for my next presentation.

00:37:30.340 --> 00:37:34.400
High five. You couldn't hear that. Good work.

00:37:34.679 --> 00:37:37.469
Okay. That's all I have. Thanks, guys, for hanging

00:37:37.469 --> 00:37:40.309
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00:38:02.269 --> 00:38:05.090
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