Tasmanian Lighthouse Keepers, Families & Friends in Kettering, Tasmania | Landmark & historical place

Tasmanian Lighthouse Keepers, Families & Friends

Locality: Kettering, Tasmania

Address: 64 Ferry rd 7155 Kettering, TAS, Australia

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24.01.2022 Eddystone Point Lighthouse mid 70's... Back in the day. Friends of Eddystone Point #eddystonepoint

24.01.2022 Digging through some old images that have been scanned from slides, taken by Anthony Parsey during the mid 70's. Low Head Lightstation Lighthouses of Australia Inc Lighthouses of Tasmania We lived there for about 6 months from memory?

23.01.2022 John Cook and Anthony Parsey in full commonwealth lighthouse uniform shortly after the disappearance of the Blythe Star in October 1973.... Tony Parsey was the last person to see the ship West of Maatsuyker Island. The vessel MV Blythe Star was a coastal freighter which foundered off south-western Tasmania in October 1973, leading to the largest maritime search operation conducted in Australia to that time. No sign of the vessel was ever found. The crew of ten successfully to...ok to a small inflatable liferaft, but it was not until after 11 days and the deaths of three seamen that the survivors were found ashore in rugged terrain near Deep Glen Bay on Tasmania's south east coast. Maatsuyker Lighthkeepers reported seeing the ship, but the authorities dismissed the report as incorrect, later to be confirmed by the surviving crew. Tony Parsey is an admin to this page and would be happy to answer any questions you may have.... See more

23.01.2022 This one was taken by Tony Parsey during our time on Maasuyker Island 1973 to 1975... #lighthousestasmania #tassie #tasmania #australianlighthouses Lighthouses of Australia Inc

20.01.2022 More photo's from the 125th anniversary celebrations of Eddystone Point

20.01.2022 News From The Lantern Room - Stoer Lighthouse http://www.scotsman.com//remote-clifftop-lighthouse-up-for

18.01.2022 Repair and reconstruction of the historic Tasman Island Landing! Request for tenders in today's Mercury. The Landing was badly destroyed by severe easterly swe...lls in June 2016. Huge thanks to Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service Ranger Eric Tierney for his efforts in this! #TasmanIsland #TheLanding See more

17.01.2022 John Cook, John Denmen and Tony Parsey behind the camera after unloading Coal Briquettes from the supply boat to the top of the island via the Haulage. 1974 #maatsuyker #lighthouses #tasmania #islandsoftasmania Tasmania Discover Tasmania Friends of Maatsuyker Island - Wildcare Inc.

16.01.2022 A great walk up to our headlands and SAVE Crookhaven Heads Lighthouse at Culburra Beach! If only we could get some signage installed on the tourism signs?

14.01.2022 Eddystone Point 1976 #eddystonepoint #lighthouse #tasmanianlighthouse

13.01.2022 The Maatsuyker Island Lightkeepers spent many long cold nights in the Lighthouse keeping the kerosene lantern burning and through the day the station still had to be maintained. 1970's #maatsuykerisland #maatsuyker #lightkeepers #tassie Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service Discover Tasmania Tasmania why we love it

13.01.2022 My Lighthouse friends might be interested in these couple of black and white art works from Philip Adkins. Not bad considering he has just started drawing a couple of months ago

12.01.2022 The old Landrover at Maatsuyker Island 1973

09.01.2022 Cape Bruny late 1970's...

08.01.2022 The first demo of the LARC5 in Victoria occurred at Port Melbourne on 22nd September 1965

07.01.2022 These little puppies were all born on Maatsuyker Island in the early 70's. Anthony Parsey or John Cook might be able to elaborate more on the circumstances around this event... Some interesting reading also.... "These 10 puppies were born to our German Pointer after she joined us on holidays off the island. Their father was obviously the local black Labrador seen lurking around where we were staying. This picture shows them being introduced to solid food in the kitchen of num...ber 2 quarters. A bit messy. When they were old enough we sent them off on the Captain Mackenzie (mail boat) to Hobart where they were collected by a family member. Four of them went to homes the next day and the remainder went to the canine defence home. They were featured int he Mercury as refugees from Maatsuyker Island and all went to new homes instantly". #maatsuykerisland #lighthouses #lighthousepuppies See more

05.01.2022 Matt needs some relief from time to time. Maybe upto 3 days a week through the summer and 1 or 2 days at this time of year. We are looking for another casual l...ighthouse guide. Suitable person must be able to function in a sometimes cold harsh environment and still deliver a high quality experience for our guests. Be available at short notice at times to work sunsets or sunrises through summer and other times throughout the year. We have a few applicants already but would like to extend the employment offer to local Bruny Island residents due to the nature and reliabilty of the operation. Please call 0437499795 or email your interest to [email protected] Please share with your friends... #brunyjobs #brunyguides #jobsonbrunyisland #tassie #tasmania Lighthouses of Australia Inc See more

05.01.2022 We landed at Swan Island (Around 1974) and I was fed a lot of chocolate cake by the light keepers wife. We then flew on to Maria Island... Mid flight apparently I decided to share my chocolate cake with all onboard in the form of vomit. These two lovely ladies were in charge of cleaning me up while the men attended to other important mens stuff. Can anyone recognise the people in this photo? Discover Tasmania Tasmania #mariaisland

03.01.2022 Early lighthouse days 1973, this photo was taken by the Mercury newspaper at Hobart airport. Tony Parsey on the left, John Cook on the right. The fellow in the middle was a security official from the Commonweath Department of Transport, he was there to make sure we didn't speak to the news media prior to attending the Marine Court of Inquiry regarding the sinking of the Blyth Star disaster.

02.01.2022 The Last Keeper Steve Gadd 2019 In the sentinel tower, slumberless, Through the midnight hours,... How many nights pumping the kerosene lamp, Winching up the hanging weights, That by clockwork and gravity turn the light? Nights of vigilance Heeding fog and storm, Dangerous in almost equal measure, To the boats that sail near the sheer cliffs The reefs and the shoals. How many, high-towered, nights On bleak heads and rocky islands In this Southern Ocean. Eddystone, Maatsuyker, Tasman Island and South Bruny, While gales howled And angry seas hammered the stone? Nights where he would sit And think upon that other home, 10,000 miles away Home of his birth and his youth, There in the May season. When swallows, and blossoms Announce, springtime in gentle England. Telling himself and telling his wife That one day they would return. As a young man he had been a sailor And had watched for the lighthouse lights Learned that each had its own signature Its tone, glow, aura and height, And he had wondered at the men Who kept these beacons Burning, burning glowing and turning Month after month. Night after night. Inside him a voice had whispered, With the quiet authority of a god, That when his sailing days were done He would pay his dues and become such a man, A keeper, a watcher, Tending the light, Guiding others to safety Through both tempest And sea-misted calm. And so for a quarter of a century With his wife, Two other keepers and their kin He would live there. In these far-away places At the world’s end. Taking his turn on four hour shifts, He would keep watch Pump the light, mend the rail, Paint the tower, polish the prisms. Haul the baskets on their cables, Blessing the fine days; enduring the rougher trials That the Southern ocean would conjure up And throw at him. They say that time and tides Will wait for no man And time has passed, and eras have passed The great lighthouses were automated And his work was now done. And so they bid their fond adieus Returning at last to Britain. But they had been too long in another life And like the prisms refracting the light Home had inverted to become that other place. The Southern Ocean Had fought him so many times But now it reached back for him, Gripped him like a lover And would not leave him be. At night he dreamed of those wild places, The stormy, stony places, Of dolerite escarpments beneath the Southern Cross. And he awoke, knowing he must return To live out the final chapter There on the craggy coast, Looking out, where the breeching whales blow, And the great albatross turn in the Roaring forties. There where Antarctica Hides somewhere out beyond the horizon.