S1E2 Pelican Point Lighthouse - Trolly in the drink!

Name: S1E2 Pelican Point Lighthouse - Trolly in the drink!
Uploaded: 2026-08-20T22:00:38+00:00
Description: In this episode of Decades, I return to the early 1960s and Pelican Point Lighthouse at Walvis Bay, Namibia, where my father worked as a lighthouse keeper. I remember travelling out by tug, thick coastal fog, the booming foghorn — and the day a few bored lighthouse keepers combined a heavy iron trolley, a canvas sail and 35 knots of wind ...

In this episode of Decades, I return to the early 1960s and Pelican Point Lighthouse at Walvis Bay, Namibia, where my father worked as a lighthouse keeper. I remember travelling out by tug, thick coastal fog, the booming foghorn — and the day a few bored lighthouse keepers combined a heavy iron trolley, a canvas sail and 35 knots of wind ...

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