Since we stayed in December and during COVID, there was no grass to mow, and the lighthouse was closed to visitors. Normally this includes taking visitors on tours of the lighthouse (by donation), lawn care, seasonal maintenance tasks, and building safety checks. My parents joke that they “pay to volunteer to work” - although only part of their day is occupied by the enjoyable lighthouse keeper duties. One of the lighthouse keepers’ duties is raising and lowering the flag. Your final day will likely be a flurry of sweeping, laundry, and remaking the beds. But you’re the cleaning crew, and you want to leave the house as clean as it was left for you. 1904) is beautifully furnished with Victorian-era inspiration, and high-quality linens are included. (No, you don’t have to hike out there, and there’s no landing for a big boat.) Keepers and their gear are transported in two 4-wheel-drive pick-up trucks. There are other keepers houses in Washington you can rent for the weekend, but New Dungeness keepers switch off every weekend, on a schedule governed by the low tides suitable for driving on hard sand. Becoming a lighthouse keeper full#So you want to be a lighthouse keeper?įirst, you have to commit to a full week. This was Bill and Ann’s 15th stay at the lighthouse over as many years, and they knew exactly what to pack and what was involved. The true gift was my parents jumping on a last-minute cancellation and inviting me and my 12-year-old son Soren to join them. But I’d never freed up a week and tackled the logistics of staying out there myself. I’d hiked out to the lighthouse a dozen times, usually to visit my parents Bill and Ann when they were staying at the keeper’s house on their annual spring trip with the same three couples. The Dungeness Spit jutting into the Strait of Juan de Fuca My Christmas present was an annual membership to the New Dungeness Light Station Association, and a reservation to spend the last week of 2020 in the lighthouse keeper’s house at New Dungeness Lighthouse - five miles “out to sea,” at the tip of the famous Dungeness Spit near Sequim.
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