Living the lighthouse life


Life as a lighthouse keeper is indeed lonely. I found that out many years ago, when I became a ‘castaway prisoner’ on an island so that I could taste this experience.

Of course, it was nothing like the maximum-security prison on Alcatraz. I was free to roam at the Pulau Rimau lighthouse in Penang.

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