The iron tower
White and octagonal.
The Pedra Seca Lighthouse was the first lighthouse on the coast of Paraíba. It stands on a flat rock exposed at low tide about a kilometre offshore, off Miramar beach where it meets Praia Formosa in Cabedelo, marking the entrance to the port, since the whole of the town's shore is fringed by a coral reef. The light was ordered in 1869 as one of a set of nine wrought-iron towers made by P & W MacLellan of Glasgow, Scotland; its parts reached Paraíba in 1872, and it was formally inaugurated on 7 September 1873. It is a white, tapering octagonal iron tower 14.5 metres high on a square masonry base, and its French fixed lens by Barbier & Fenestre was considered state of the art in navigation at the time. In 1922 an automatic acetylene apparatus replaced the keepers, and today it runs entirely on solar power. The lighthouse can be seen from Miramar beach, its white tower standing out at sea. Seeing it combines well with the Fort of Santa Catarina and Jacaré Beach in Cabedelo.
White and octagonal.
On a rock.
The viewpoint.
Off Miramar beach, Cabedelo, Paraíba
It is seen from the beach, standing on a rock at sea.