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Lighthouse maintenance

Posted by Shelley on 6 March 2016

From February 2016 until the beginning of June, the Farewell Spit Lighthouse Tower was shrouded in mesh over scaffolding while it was being sand and water blasted ready for painting.

lighthouse with scaffolding february 2016

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