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ABOUT
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| My husband Tommy and myself, Christine, met in the winter of 1988 when I started my Postal career at the West Long Branch Post Office in West Long Branch, New Jersey. Tommy has been a Letter Carrier for 30 years and I was a Letter Carrier for 18.5 years. We worked side by side in the office for over a decade. We've now been happily married for almost 17 years. |
| We've only been hunting out the lighthouses for ten years now. Our love for the lights first began while we were vacationing in Nova Scotia, Canada. We saw only few but it sparked such an interest that we turned it into our obsession. So our first official lighthouse trip was in Canada back in 1997. We now plan a few vacations a year, and that takes a lot of planning. We try to see as many lighthouses as we can during our adventures. We both love the outdoors and love to travel to places we've never been before and some we have. |
| We've photographed 1,111 lighthouses so far in the United States and Canada. That's 722 in the USA and 391 in Canada. The beautiful clouds, rocks, trees and water make the views fantastic. We've traveled to the Great Lakes, both the American and Canadian side, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and Quebec, Canada, the US's east and west coast including Hawaii and Alaska, and the south. There are still some we haven't had the chance to see yet. Most of those are off-shore and need special arrangements. |
| We love the adventure of finding the lighthouses and as you know, some are strenuous! We've both have either fallen, slipped, or tumbled during our treks. We've been through all types of weather while on our excursions, some while on land and some while on the water. Definitely, some days have been better than others. We were in our first seaplane down in Florida in 2004 and a prop-plane in Hawaii also in 2004. We were in 4 float planes and a wheel plane while in Alaska in 2005. Then in another wheeled plane in Maine in 2007. We're lucky that the motion sickness patch works! They were pretty exciting. I'm sure there will be many more of those in our future. We just don't like the banking of the planes. It's hard to get the shot you want going 120 mph past it. |
| Our whole interior home is decorated in a nautical theme, with many lighthouses scattered throughout. Our favorite place to shop is at the Lighthouse Depot www.lighthousedepot.com in Maine, of course. We proudly display many framed, enlarged lighthouse photos that we shot while on vacations. They are great conversation pieces and everyone is amazed! We are both members of the American Lighthouse Foundation www.LighthouseFoundation.org, the New Jersey Lighthouse Society www.NJLHS.org, and the Chesapeake Chapter of the USLHS www.ChesLights.org. In March 2006 I entered 3 photos in the NJ Lighthouse Society annual photo contest and 2 of my photos won. That was very exciting!! East Point Lighthouse in NJ won 1st place and Bodie Island in NC won 2nd place. How cool was that for my first time?! |
| If anyone ever has
any questions they would like to ask us, please feel free. Go to our Contact
Us page to email us the questions. Remember to send any photo of you at
a lighthouse to us in an attachment. That way we can put you on our Fellow
Hunters page with your name and the name and location of the lighthouse.
We are also on www.myspace.com so check us out here too. Find me on MySpace and be my friend! |
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All photos contained
in this site, © Copyright 1997-2008 by The Lighthouse Hunters-Christine
& Tom Cardaci.
Images and text may not be used from this website without written permission. Contact Us for more information. |
