Watercolour on paper

Signed on the front.

Sunny day, trip to the beach. Yamba Life Saving Club, historic lighthouse. White painted lighthouse that has been providing a permanent light for local shipping since 1880. Stories about the first lighthouse seem to vary a little but it seems that there was first a rudimentary structure of a platform with a kerosene lamp on it on the most easterly part of Pilot Hill.
This was replaced in 1866 by a small wooden humpy whose shutters were opened each night to dispense the rays of a large kerosene lamp placed on a bench. It was in the same place as the first and next to the flagstaff.
Tenders were called in 1878 and a permanent light was built in 1880 by W. Kinnear at a cost of 1,097 pounds