#LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER JOBS 2011 FULL#
No matter whether raging storm or moon that's shining bright, the lighthouse keeper will not sleep, he must maintain the light.Īnd as for Doreen, homeschooling their daughter and up keeping the home, Jim says she was the mainstay, "she had a full time job, and a very hard job." In his poem, Keepers of the Light, Jim reflects on the arduous nature of a lighthouse keepers job. "After we'd been to Church in the morning," Doreen adds.
While manning the semi automated light at Point Moore the couple enjoyed the perks of life at a less isolated station and have fond memories of the Sunday sessions spent at the local pub. But it wall went down well," Jim recalls. The first two or three bottles had a distinct taste of kerosene in them. "Doreen used to make a mean homebrew, we used to use the old felt hats which we used to strain the kerosene with to strain the sediment out of the homebrew. On the isolated stations it was near impossible for the couple to have a social life as keepers in those days could never stray far from the kerosene lit lamps. After stints at Cape Naturalist and Cape Leveque the Robinsons spent their last working years as the last keepers at the Point Moore Lighthouse in Geraldton. "If you get married then you can't go to sea, so the next best thing was to live by it, so we became lighthouse keepers."Įx seamen Jim Robinson and his wife Doreen were first stationed at the Eclipse Island lighthouse off the coast of Albany in 1966.ĭoreen recalls having supplies hauled in a wicker basket up to the young family stationed 15 metres above sea level.įrom Eclipse Island they moved to work at a lighthouse surrounded by mangroves at Cape Don on the Cobourg Peninsula.
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