...the Lady Bay Lighthouse in Warrnambool.
I'm spending a couple of days exploring Victoria's Shipwreck Coast - that's the stretch from the Port Fairy to Moonlight Head where hundreds of ships went to the bottom during the 1800s - and my accommodation has been in Lighthouse Lodge on the edge of Flagstaff Hill in Warrnambool.
Lighthouse Lodge was built in 1911, as the Warrnambool Harbour Master's house, and was recently restored to let visitors stay within the grounds of the Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village.
The lighthouse, with a blue and a white light that flashed like a pulse outside my window from sunset to sunrise, was originally built on Middle Island in 1859 but relocated - with all its outbuildings, including the outside toilet - to the current position in 1878.
Warrnambool Harbour was a dangerous spot in the 19th century, when it was one of Victoria's most important export ports, with more than 16 ships sinking and more more stranded but successfully refloated.
