Juminda Tuletorn

Diana sent me this beautiful lighthouse

postcard from Estonia. She says that when she

was a little girl, she always wanted to become

a lighthouse keeper. She adds that she still has

a 'thing with lighthouses'. I understand completely,

Diana, because I also have a 'thing with lighthouses'!

2 1/2 sides of Estonia's border is coastline and

it has more than 70 lighthouses.

This lighthouse is the Juminda Tuletorn

('tuletorn' means lighthouse in Estonian). It was built

in 1937 on the biggest peninsula on Estonia's

northern shore, and was 26 meters high. In 2006, eight

metal cylinders were added to the upper shaft, and

now it stands 32 meters high, with two galleries.

Juminda Tuletorn was first painted black and white, but after the

addition, it was painted red at the top, black in the middle

and white at the bottom.

Thank you, Diana, for another great lighthouse to add to

my lighthouse postcard collection!

Diana also put some great lighthouse stamps on her card.

The one on the left is Vaindloo tuletorn, which is on a small

island in the Gulf of Finland. The other, of course, is

Juminda Tuletorn.