The Ponce Inlet Lighthouse

We visited the lighthouse in Florida called the Ponce De Leon Inlet Lighthouse because we were anchored close to it and it looked interesting.It was really fun. There are some pretty cool facts about it.

The ponce inlet lighthouse is the tallest lighthouse in Florida. There are exactly 200 stairs in the light house.
It was built in 1835 and was finished by 1887 and is built with brick. The stairs are really steep and narrow and they are really hard to climb up without falling.  and weighs about six tons and costs about $12,500. The lighthouse is 175 feet.
There is also a weather poem that helped to know the weather,

The pattern of the beam is different in all the lighthouses. The ponce inlet lighthouse is a group flashing six times every 30 seconds. The range of the light is 17 nautical miles; 32 kilometers. The lens they use is a Fresnel lens. A Fresnel lens looks like this:

Here is a poem about the weather that lighthouse keepers used to use:

Ring around the moon means rain soon
if fleecy white clouds cover the heavenly way, no rain should mar your plans that day
frost or dew in the morning light shows no rain before the night
fish bite least with the wind in the east
expect weather to be fair when crows fly in pairs
when ladybugs swarm expect a day thats warm
clear moon, frost soon