Seal Island Light Museum

Beaches and Beacons

Seal Island Light Museum

Barrington, Nova Scotia B0W 1E0, Canada

Created By: Shelburne area chamber of commerce

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The museum, a replica of the top half of the Seal Island Lighthouse. It displays lighthouse equipment and memorabilia,and tells the fascating history of the lighthouse and the area's light keeping families on Cape sable Island, Bon Portage and Seal Island as well as the hundreds of shipwrecks that made the waters surrounding Seal Island a graveyard in the days of wooden sailing ships.

From the third level, you can climb the iron stairs as the keepers did for 76 years and see the orginal clockwork mechanism and the only installed Fresnel lens in Nova Scotia. From the top, you can take in the spectacular view of Barrington Bay. Season is from June- September

This point of interest is part of the tour: Beaches and Beacons


 

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