Phantom House | First Light

One weekend every summer the Castlepoint Race Club holds its one and only race meeting, on the beach. For nearly forty years this annual event has drawn a large crowd of punters and onlookers cheering on the horses as they thunder along the sand. What time the race starts is dependent on the tide, the stakes are not very high, but there is always a queue at the totalisator!

A lone blue penguin (the eudyptula minor variety of penguin) treads water off the Castlepoint beach, probably wondering whether this is a good place to come ashore to build a nest in a suitable rocky cavern or burrow.

A view of the precision cut glass prisms that make up the lens assembly in the lighthouse. The meticulous design of the prisms ensures the light is transmitted in an accurate and powerful beam, a reassuring sight for seafarers.