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🌊 The Barges Lighthouse – Vendée, Atlantic Coast 🇫🇷

🗼 History & Facts:

The Phare des Barges is an offshore lighthouse located about 2 km from La Chaume, facing Les Sables-d’Olonne, Vendée, France.

✨ Built between 1858 and 1861, it was designed to mark dangerous rocky shallows (“les barges”) and to protect ships navigating the Bay of Biscay.

💡 Key details:

Height: 24.8 m (81 ft)

Elevation: 31.3 m (102 ft) above sea level

Material: granite masonry tower

Light range: 13.5 nautical miles (approx. 25 km)

Automation: Since 1987, it no longer has permanent keepers.

Architect: Léonce Reynaud, a major French lighthouse engineer of the 19th century.

️ Significance:

This lighthouse has withstood Atlantic storms and strong tidal currents for over 160 years, acting as a silent guardian for sailors navigating the wild Vendée coastline.

🎇 Special note:

Due to its offshore isolation, maintenance and construction were challenging, requiring complex logistics with landing only possible at low tide and calm sea. It remains an emblematic maritime heritage site of the region.

Le phare des Barges est situé à 2 km de La Chaume, appartenant à la commune des Sables-d'Olonne. Il a été inauguré le 14 octobre 1861.

en 1971,1er phare français automatisé.

Coordonnées

46° 29′ 42″ N, 1° 50′ 31″ O

Les Sables-d'Olonne

côte sauvage

Construction 1857 - 1861

Automatisation1971

Architecture Hauteur24,81 m

Élévation 31,3 m

Matériau Pierre

Équipement Lanterne lampe halo 20W

Portée13,5 milles

Feux 2 éclats rouges/10 s

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Tiempo de aguas y verdes. Meses esperando esta estación que nunca defrauda. Además este año está siendo bastante lluvioso por lo que aún nos quedarán unas cuantas alegrías. Mañana disfrutadísima junto a @txocp que hizo de modelo de una manera muy profesional 😉

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A stroll around Burghead Harbour today, always provides the opportunity to capture something different!

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I love the setting sun, I love nature, I love to share such views with you 😍

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Como un regalo caído del cielo, así considero esta escena. Aprovechando las intensas lluvias que se preveían madrugamos @txocp y yo mismo para acercarnos a esta maravilla. La segunda vez en apenas una semana y no me canso de repetir.

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The theme is CHIP, they said.

My mind immediately thought "potato chip" however that seemed too obvious so I thought more widely. Computer chip also seemed a bit obvious, however my husband had these little gems with 'legs' to create shadows, so I jazzed them up with red and blue lights. That was fun.

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Mottes were common in Scotland the 1100s and 1200s, before they were replaced by stone castles. They were fortifications, usually consisting of a wooden keep on top of an artificial earthwork mound. Some also had an enclosed courtyard or bailey, containing additional wooden buildings, protected by a ditch and palisade.

Duffus Castle was a fortress–residence for more than 500 years, from the 1100s to the 1700s. The stone castle we see today was built in the 1300s, replacing an earlier timber fortress.

Once one of the strongest castles in Scotland, it was reduced to a decaying ruin by the time of its abandonment in 1705. But the castle remains an impressive sight, situated on a mound rising out of the flat Laich of Moray.