Strikingly tall structures perched on rough windswept coastlines hearkening back to an earlier seafaring time in history, lighthouses are a..

The rugged terrain of the island and surrounding rough coastline has led to the appearance of many wrecked dhows on the beaches of the island, most of them well preserved by the salt water and intense heat.

After a flight of one and a half hours, the plane touched down on the sea, a few hundred yards from a rough reddish coastline, which was quite beautiful.

The east side of the island has the Canterbury Plains while the West Coast is famous for its rough coastlines, very high proportion of native bush, and Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers.

Built to guide vessels away from the notoriously dangerous and rough coastline and to let them know proximity of the nearby bay and entrance, the lighthouse was one of the first to be automated.

Heading for the great Tokaido highway that led from the shogunal capital at Edo to the Imperial capital at Kyoto and the trade city of Osaka, they paralleled the rough and rocky coastline.