Post Isabel Lighthouse

Good Afternoon, Isabel

December 31, 2009 | By Helen Bryant

Night Light

March 12, 2009 | By Samantha Hyde

As inland-bound 19th-Century sailors began the home stretch through the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, a beacon of hope shined during even the harshest of Gulf storms: the 72-foot-high Port Isabel Lighthouse, whose stationary white light was visible from 16 miles out to sea.

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