Lighthouse Keeper Gives a tour of Where he Lives!
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- Have you ever wondered what a Lighthouse Keeper's House is like? How does it work when you are moved from station to station all the time? In this episode we take a look inside one of the Lighthouse Keeper dwellings on Boat Bluff.
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Spencer C/O Boat Bluff Lighthouse Bag 3670
1 Seal Cove Coast Guard Base
Prince Rupert, BC V8J 3R1 Canada
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I just started watching your channel. Love the content, there is not much about lighthouse keepers and the job its nice to see what the profession is like.
Thanks, glad you are enjoying the videos.
Such a great channel! Congratulations on way more than your 300 subscribers. Very beautiful spot.
Thank you very much! It is an amazing view for certain.
Man am serious when I say l had always wanted to design and live in a lighthouse! Love this channel.
Thank you for enjoying the channel. It is appreciated.
Definitely!
i was a relief lighthouse keeper with the US Coast Guard in the nineteen sixties and it was the best duty i had in my four years in the Coast Guard. i also served aboard two lightships and enjoyed every minute of my time doing this type of work. i always think back on those great times for me.
That is awesome. I can only imagine what the job was like at that time.
Just subscribed. Just found you.
I am lighthouse crazy...🤩❤
Crazy for lighthouses is a good thing! haha.
My grandpa was the keeper for boat bluff in 1966, my mom and her siblings were all born and raised there ❤
That is amazing! Thanks for commenting. Did they live in my place or the other house? I kind of like the other house better but the Principal Keeper is currently living there. Some day I hope to get it tho....haha
My family owned a tug and barge operation and I have been up and back on the inside passage 4 times and this place stands out. Its like a painting that looks to good to be real.
it is just as good from the other side, watching all the tugs and ferries go by, it does feel too good to be real.
Good to see you safe and sound :) The new life looks brilliant.
Alive and isolated. It is an interesting life.
Tinted windows covers be a little bit cooler then standard uncovered window
You also have the option of purchasing your own curtians or blinds as needed.
Thank you very much for the video and information
Your welcome. I hope you enjoyed it.
That’s a good amount of model cars tbh, great time killer
It is not bad but I have been known to do about a model to two models a week so I need to be sure I have enough around so that I don't run out! I have a few delivered each month and that should keep me going for some time.
If you want to see what I am building, check out my other channel here: ruclips.net/channel/UC1XLX0cYO-VG_pIzRFopMVw
nice video Spence! was brought here by your feature on the what is a lighthouse video , which was very informative. I don't think, personally, that i would like to live in that house, yet it suits you! Anyways Spence, keep up the good work and stay gold!
Hi, thanks for watching. Believe me, this house would not be my first choice either! haha. Eventually I will be moving into a different house once I become principal somewhere. We will see what house I get then.
The bed is a full (between queen and twin). The empty room has nightstand, wobbly and a headboard.
Enjoy ur tour. Thx.
Yeah, a headboard for a queen, which there is no queen bed anywhere on station....how odd.
very nice job uncle ......
Thank you!!!!
From 300 to 2000 subs. Congrats.
Ps. Subscribed
Thank you so much for the sub. I hope to have more content soon.
Hi Spence, can you please do a tour of your radio room?
Thank you
That is a great suggestion and now I have some wheels turning....I am going to have to put together something.
that radio-telephone is pretty old I haven't seen one of those since a friend of mine bought a 1970 Dodge Charger that had one mounted on the console, early 1990s, this was before cell phones came out .
I wonder if it is possible to switch up the bedroom from one side of the house to the other so that you can see the channel from your living room, is there an actual rule that says that you cannot do this ?
There is talk of replacing the radio phone sometime soon. It is pretty old tech for sure. haha.
No rules on how you have your house set up, just don't start tearing down walls or making huge changes, similar to if you are just renting in the city. One thing that does happen is when you go on vacation and you are away for a few months, sometimes you come back and the keeper who was your relief has moved all the furnature around to suit them! haha.
Hey Spence, seems like you have a pretty sick setup for modeling where your at now. Was that something that you have always done or did you get into it when you started working as a keeper? I've been getting into modeling since isolation started over in the states, and its been a great way to pass the time. Would love to hear your thoughts!
Hey Jordan, hope you are keeping well. Thanks for the complement about my set up but this is going to be temporary to be honest. The table is kind of scary and wobbly and the chair is held together with duct tape! Haha. It works for now but I have a good desk and chair coming that I hope to get this month.... Or maybe next, depending on when the coast guard can get it out to me.
I have been building since quite young really, likely about 10 or so but never really took it too serious. I was always all over the place with builds and rarely finished a kit. I built everything from cars, planes, military, Gundam, dioramas, pretty much all of it but as I say, nothing ever really got finished. I took several years off while I lived in Hong Kong and in the Philippines and now that I am back in Canada and things are available to me again no problem, I decided to get back into it and be a little more focused. The job only gives me more Incentive as I get few interruptions and I can really get into it. I am currently only doing 1/25 and 1/25 scale and will stay focused on that for a while.
Being at the station has been great for my building, I have more kits done since I got here than I did the 10 years previous!!! When I am finished with them, I give them away on my other building channel as I really don't have room here. Best to let others enjoy them as well. 😁
Nice house.. kinda liked it.. do you do any gardening stuff in free time
I have mentioned it in previous videos, I am super awesome at killing plants. Not sure what it is about me but I find it super difficult to keep anything plant wise alive. That being said, there is some amazing garden space here on the station and I may try my hand at it again, just to see how it goes. It does depend on where I end up as a permanent keeper tho because it would be unfortunate to start an amazing garden and then have to leave the station before anything happens.
So it is a decision I am considering.
I like sea shells and navigation stuff as decorations. A beach house style. When you become a principle lighthouse keeper, will you then be allowed to bring your family to live with you?
Now that I am permanent, I can bring my family. Currently working on this but there is a lot of paperwork involved.
@@BCLighthouseKeeper Are you the principle lighthouse keeper now?
@@robertlaird6746 no, not principal. I am an assistant keeper.
Do you have a video that explains difference between primary and what you do? And if ypu don't mind answering how much roughly do light house keepers make?
The biggest difference between principal and assistant is the principal has to do all the paperwork. Other than that, duties are pretty much the same and need to be done by both keepers. Wages can change per station, some lighthouses you get paid more than others, depending on how isolated and difficult to get to they are. Wages start around $35000 a year but that will be changing soon with a new contract for government workers.
Do you get amazon delivery? Do you have the motorized lighthouse by Lego? Thanks for the videos.
Amazon delivers to the Coast Guard base and then we have all our packages shipped out with our groceries each month. I don't have that lego set but have seen it. It is awesome.
Can only dream here in America
Yeah, sorry, in the US everything went automated but the US Coast Guard has sold off a lot of the existing structures so they can be acquired privately, if you really really wanted a Lighthouse.
So is your favorite movie "The Lighthouse" (2019) ?
I did really enjoy the movie. I was so impressed I actually made my own interpretation of the trailer here: ruclips.net/video/flWgG8VnJZ4/видео.html
@@BCLighthouseKeeper Yes your interpretation of that movie was funny. If I remember correctly, There was an old abandoned Pulp Mill on the East side of Princess Royal Channel in Swanson Bay, they say it was the 1st Pulp mill in BC. You should run up there in your boat and rummage thru the rumble for old artifacts.
I will add this to my list of things to do. Not sure how far that is from here but I will look it up. Thanks for the recommendation.
There IS plastic model here. I was thinking to myself that this is a great job for plastic modellers.
Yes, I am a modeler. You can check out my other youtube channel, scale auto garage where I film all my builds.
Do u ever face any paranormal activity ?
Nothing yet.
It's Canada, they are all living in cities 😂