Something is wrong with this picture. Not the actual picture. No, the idea that climbing up the 214 steps to the top of the St. Augustine Lighthouse only burns 24 calories, there is something wrong with that number. Most landings announce how many steps you have left as you climb, something that didn’t make me pant any less hard. Some landings had benches and they did help get me to the top. In my anticipation of seeing this lighthouse I expected my view to be of the lighthouse plus ocean, which didn’t materialize. As a matter of fact the little park around the lighthouse is small enough that I had to mostly rely on my iPhone for photos. This is the first lighthouse I ever climbed, and I will admit the view was great, both on the way to the top and from the top itself. But one bite of cookie would negate the climb, that is just wrong…
Was it comforting to read that you will spend another 11 calories climbing down the steps? Not so much…
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This blog is fantastic. Views were amazing . I have never been in a lighthouse …..so a new experience for me.
did not know there was another lighthouse with the black and white stripe, I almost was like this is not cape hattaras lighthouse? lol. and your right it is not fair 24 calories for all that hard climbing? yikes!!
there is a great story behind the cape hattaras lighthouse, it cost them eleven million dollars to move it a quarter of a mile away from shore because ti was going to get eaten up by the ocean. they have placards there to read about it. with covid tho I think the main building is still closed to visitors.
This blog is fantastic. Views were amazing . I have never been in a lighthouse …..so a new experience for me.
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I didn’t intend to climb, I just intended to take photos of the lighthouse from every angle I could think of. I’m glad I had to rethink that!
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did not know there was another lighthouse with the black and white stripe, I almost was like this is not cape hattaras lighthouse? lol. and your right it is not fair 24 calories for all that hard climbing? yikes!!
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I will have to go to Cape Hatteras, I haven’t been there…yet!
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there is a great story behind the cape hattaras lighthouse, it cost them eleven million dollars to move it a quarter of a mile away from shore because ti was going to get eaten up by the ocean. they have placards there to read about it. with covid tho I think the main building is still closed to visitors.
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It seems that a lot of lighthouses have had to be moved for that reason. I’m glad we can still see them.
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