Lindesness Fyr (Lighthouse) & Vigeland

October 21, 2017

"Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue. It beckons through the storms of life. It calls, “This way to safety; this way to home.”....“The lighthouse of the Lord beckons to all as we sail the seas of life.”—President Thomas S. Monson

Views from our trip to Lindesnes Lighthouse

Germany took control of the lighthouse during the war and you can still vies the bunkers in the area and go inside them.

The lighthouse is on the southern most tip of Norway. One of the few remaining lighthouses that still has a lighthouse keeper.

Lindesnes Lighthouse (Norwegian: Lindesnes fyr) is a coastal lighthouse at the southernmost tip of Norway, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) southwest of the village of Høllen in Lindesnes municipality in Vest-Agder county. The present lighthouse was built in 1915, although the station was first built in 1656 to mark the entrance to the Skaggerak and the Baltic Sea from the North Sea. The current 16.1-metre (53 ft) tall lighthouse is cast iron with a granite foundation. The lighthouse is painted white, with a red top. The light sits at an elevation of 50.1 metres (164 ft) and it emits a fixed and flashing white light that is always on and it rotates between a low intensity and high intensity light every 20 seconds. The light can be seen for up to 17.7 nautical miles (32.8 km; 20.4 mi). The lighthouse was first built in 1656 and over the centuries several more were built to replace the older ones. In 1822, the lighthouse was refitted with a coal lamp, and in 1854 a new lamp was installed with the current lens. The current cast iron tower was set up in 1915 and fitted with the old Fresnel lens. In 1920, the lighthouse station got its first fog signal, a siren.

It is really windy at the lighthouse and surrounding area. The wind blows so strong off the North Sea that you have to hold on tight up on top or you feel you will blown right off into the ocean. The wind gusts are usually 40-50 mph.

This shows the distance between the Lindesnes lighthouse and the northern most lighthouse (Slettness Fyr) in Norway& Nordkapp (the north cape).

This is the weather rock at the lighthouse.
Warm rock = sunshine
Wet rock = rain
White rock = Snow
No Rock = somebody took it

small model of light house in museum

how the original lighthouse used to lit with wood and coal

original bucket used to build fires to help warn & direct sailors & fishermen of where the coast was located

some some neat wood carvings on the wall at the museum

old lamps used in the lighthouse keepers home.

old foghorn used to sound warnings

Can't let a trip just be for sight seeing only. Diana is a member of the church who lives close by Lindesnes just outside of Vigeland. She is only able to come to church occaissionally since she lives so far away. She was so kind and needed to feed us lunch when we visited with her

view of inside of her home. It was built in the 1800's and they are trying to restore and remodel it. Inherited from their family. She is quite artistic also and we liked the owl she carved above the aquarium. Her husband is a fisherman who goes out to sea for a couple weeks at a time and then is home for a couple of weeks.