Carysfort Reef Lighthouse

Carysfort Reef Lighthouse is located about six nautical miles east of Key Largo, Florida
The light is about 100 feet above the water and was completed in 1852. Carysfort Reef is named for HMS Carysfort (1766), a 20-gun Royal Navy post ship that ran aground on the reef in 1770.

Carysfort Reef Light off Key Largo, Florida — Key Largo-IMG_0830-2012-09-08-7D

Carysfort Reef Lighthouse – Key Largo

Photo by Lee Smith

When you drive a few miles out to sea and find a structure like a lighthouse – I always wonder how the heck they built that thing. It is unmanned, but still functions being the oldest existing screw-pile lighthouse still in service in the United States – located off the coast of Key Largo, Florida

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