( Inside and Outside)
 Tower “moonrise” photo. G.Fletcher 2007 |
 Plaque at the base of the tower |
 Historic plaque from the “Royal Canadian Navy..1960” |
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 Spring 1996: The Lighthouse receives a new coat of paint- for a few days, a white lighthouse presents a strange image in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. |
 The underside of the stairs –each stair has a round end which forms a continuous part of the central column |
 Steps from above.. note the central column which is made of the stacked ends of the carved sandstone steps |
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 The white granite rock which makes up part of the lower two-thirds of the tower. See this file for the question about it’s origin |
 conduits for electrical wires to the top of the lighthouse. |
 The black stripes are painted over the white base. |
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 Environment Canada wind recording instrumentation in the small room underneath the lantern room. |
 The steps leading to the Lantern room |
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 A stair made of sandstone which must have broken so was never used |
 Cut sandstone blocks abandoned in the intertidal area by the docks. One story is that the sandstone for the top third of the tower came from Gabriola Island. The sandstone blocks left here were never used in the tower construction. |
 Note the deterioration prior to tower repair in 2009See this file for a link to the lantern room images |
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| Link to this file which profiles the repair process on the tower which began in February, 2009 | This File has a number of recent Images of the Race Rocks Imperial Lighthouse |