Shine A Light ABC Perth

From weddings to deaths, drunken misbehaviours and a ghost story with so much spook it makes you quiver, a lot happened in the short lifespan of the Cape Northumberland Bay lighthouse off Port MacDonnell in South Australia. President of the Port MacDonnell District Maritime Museum, Veronica Jenkin, revisits some of the logbook entries in this audio clip.

A fear of heights is not fit for a lighthouse keeper. Especially the men who kept the fire burning at Cape Jaffa for one hundred years protecting ships from the most treacherous of currents. Standing 41 metres tall, the Cape Jaffa lighthouse now rests on Marine Parade in the seaside town of Kingston, in South Australia's South East. It has been preserved as a museum to show tourists what life was like on the platform. Only since 1975 has the lighthouse stood on such steady ground - this is the story of the Cape Jaffa lighthouse as told by Frank England.

For over a hundred years it's been the site of Broome's skeletal lighthouse. But the stories of Gantheaume Point stretch back in time over thousands and even millions of years. Come on a tour of the history and dinosaur footprints that make Gantheaume Point an extraordinary part of Australia's coastline.

For over a hundred years it's been the site of Broome's skeletal lighthouse. But the stories of Gantheaume Point stretch back in time over thousands and even millions of years. Come on a tour of the history and dinosaur footprints that make Gantheaume Point an extraordinary part of Australia's coastline.

Malcolm Brack grew up at three of Victoria's lighthouses. More than 50 years after his father took the position at Cape Otway, Malcolm still visits the lighthouse every day.

The Old Cleveland Point Lighthouse was built between 1864-1865 on Cleveland Point, South of Brisbane. One of Queensland's earliest lighthouses, it was erected to light the way for small coastal steamers that serviced the farming settlements along the south coast of Moreton Bay.