Lighthouse built in 1923 and still standing!

Proffy · Apr 22, 2020

After repeated requests of local fishermen, a lighthouse was built in the headland of Kurmrags in 1923 as the landmark location between the ports of Ainazhi and Riga. Originally, it stood in the meadow next to the steep slope of the coastline. During a tornado in 1967, the lighthouse was destroyed and the light was turned off. The next tornado in 2005 flushed the lighthouse into the sea, leaving it all warped in the sea couple of metres away from the shore. The Ķurmrags lighthouse is popularly styled as the Smugglers Lighthouse, and the near bay – as the Smugglers Bay, because at the early 1920s it was one of the nearby coastal channels for supplying cheap alcohol from Estonia to Latvia.

MAvic_South_Oz · Apr 22, 2020

Seems to have a little list towards the sea though !
Not bad being built on sand, you'd think it would get undermined easily there, maybe a deep foundation.
Obviously the shore gets some storm surge looking at the shoreline bank.

Spartan Drones · Apr 22, 2020

Nice thanks for posting

Proffy · Apr 23, 2020

MAvic_South_Oz said:
Seems to have a little list towards the sea though !
Not bad being built on sand, you'd think it would get undermined easily there, maybe a deep foundation.
Obviously the shore gets some storm surge looking at the shoreline bank.

Thankfully we didn't have a lot of heavy storms. Just a few maybe in the latest 20 years. But at the last year wind get much stronger. Some times i even decide not to fly a drone.

That's makes me sad. Stay Safe!

Vue D’Oiseau · Apr 24, 2020

Nice vid. Yes it seem like a windy area.

NOLADG · Apr 24, 2020

Nice video and history

Proffy · Apr 25, 2020

Spartan Drones said:
Nice thanks for posting

Thanks for watching aaaand for feedback! ?

Thomas B · Apr 25, 2020

Cool history... “the walking lighthouse”!

Proffy · Apr 25, 2020

Thomas B said:
Cool history... “the walking lighthouse”!

hehe )) I like to call it "boozy" lighthouse!

Proffy · Apr 26, 2020

Vue D’Oiseau said:
Nice vid. Yes it seem like a windy area.

Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, by the sea places are always windy, but the last year it become really complicated to fly with a drone even inside of the country. :-/ Hope the summer will be not so windy and lockdown ends!

Stay Safe!