Fish With A Womb!
Don’t worry I’m not going mad. I just looked up the origin of the name dolphin. Hey, even the great Melville, debating whether a whale was a fish or a mammal, plumbed for a fish. I just wanted to see if ‘fish with a womb’ came up in the top ten search key phrases in my blog stats. It probably will.
These three dolphins were photographed by my brother’s postman whilst out water skiing. Damned talented chap I thought, until I realised he was in the back of the boat and not actually water skiing with a camera in one hand. And the reason I am in possession of this photograph is because Robin’s postman also caught a picture of Robin’s lighthouse in the background.
Point Lynus Lighthouse was built in 1835 with a tower of 11 meters. However the height of the light above mean high tide is 39 meters, it being built on a headland. It was electrified in 1951 and automated in 1989. Yes, sadly it’s true. My brother Robin isn’t a lighthouse keeper, more of a lighthouse owner, which just isn’t the same is it. It houses a 1000w bulb with an intensity of 112,000 candela and the lamps character is ‘white, occulting every 10 seconds’ and has a range of 40km or 20 nautical miles. It would take a rather large pv array to power that light bulb.
What is more, should you be interested, he has two pilot’s cottages within the castellated walls of the structure which are self catering holiday lets. If you want to see more look here. So if you like your rain horizontal and your fish and chips in wet newspaper drop me a line and I’ll introduce.
Paul Beckmann said,
November 17, 2008 @ 6:57 pm
Check for the heraldic dolphin and the ‘Dauphin’ of France. Dolphin is another name for I think the Bonito or the Albacore, I can never rember which, but this is supposed to be the originator of the heraldic Dolphin, which has scales. I remember a huge arguement about this I had at school along the lines of is a dolphin a fish or a mammal and I said ‘both’, which caused great hilarity and ridicule. Bonito is a species of Tuna - like fish as is Albacore. Perhaps not many heralds had seen Dolphins and assumed that as they swim in the sea they must have scales - its all very fishy!