Scurdie Ness Lighthouse - Montrose, Scotland

 Taken in April 2012. At the foot of Montrose Harbour and adjacent to the North Sea is the Scurdie Ness Lighthouse. It's a short, easy walk and lovely when the weather cooperates.

"At some of the isolated stations the war added immensely to the lightkeepers work. At Scurdie Ness, not content with being the butt of the RAF for 'Lighting up' on naval instructions and so guiding the German Bombers in, one lightkeeper had to paint the whole tower black so that it would not also provide a day mark for the enemy"