Pea Island, with a length of roughly 183 metres (200 yards) and a height of about 7 metres (25 feet), lies just offshore from the southern tip of Blacks Harbour Peninsula. The Department of Marine entered into a contract for a lighthouse on Pea Point, the westernmost point of the island, in 1876, and work on the structure was nearly complete when John H. Harding, the Marine Agent at Saint John, visited the site in September of the following year.Though the first keeper, Alexander Davidson, was on station in September of 1877, the light was not officially lit until January 1, 1878. The original Pea Point Lighthouse consisted of a wooden, square, pyramidal tower, thirty-one feet high, with an attached one-and-a-half-story dwelling and exhibited a fixed green catoptric light at an elevation of fifty-one feet above high water. The total cost of the lighthouse came to $1,905.17, and Keeper Davidson was paid an annual salary of $250.
We recently completed GC7B7GC Pea Point Lighthouse - Virtual Reward, and decided to place a tradiontal cache here as part of WINCAT 2023
Task 26. Gilligan’s Island. YOU CAN NOT DRIVE TO THE ISLAND.
NOTE
Pea Island can only be accessed by foot from the beach at low tide.
Plan your caching trip according to the tides, give yourself enough time to get on and off of the island at low tide. If not it could be a long wait until the next low tide.
Tide Tables can be found here https://marineweather.net/tide/blacks-harbour-new-brunswick-tides
The rocks can and will be covered in sea weed and wil be very slippery.
You are looking for a small camoed bottle that conatins a log so bring you own pen/pencil.
WARNING
If its foggy, the fog horn will be sounding and will be extermly loud.