This handsome, scarlet-topped 110m lighthouse atop Cape George Point overlooks the calm waters of St Georges Bay. The present light (the third) was built in 1961, but there's been a beacon of some sort here since 1861.
Cape George Point Lighthouse
Nova Scotia
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