Quotes by Reg Pullen

“The foundation is cracked, and you cant let that go on too long. Especially not when you have waves breaking up around the lighthouse.”

“A couple years ago, there was a school bus out there with a load of kids, and they were in the lighthouse when a big wave swept all the way around the lighthouse and turned the school bus on its side. Luckily, the kids were all inside the lighthouse.”

“Its sort of the icon for the community of Bandon.”

“There was a lot of debate whether these jetties should have been built. It might have been better if theyd gone further north. Theres a rock reef here about 12 feet below the surface, so theres no way to ever get a real deep channel here. When you have swells of 6 or 8 feet, you dont have enough water for safe passage. A little farther north, there are no rock reefs and theyd probably have had a safer channel.”

“We have a solar-powered light in there so that at night, in Bandon, you can see it blinking. But its just for aesthetics.”

“Sometimes in the fall well see 20 or 30 of these birders, dressed out in Abercrombie & Fitch clothing with their spotting scopes, looking at some little dickey bird. The word gets out that theres some shorebird thats rare, and they all flock to the coast to look at it.”

“This is not a bar for novices. Bandon has some great fishing because of the fact its so hard to get over the bar here, so its not over-fished like so many places. The fishing is still superb because people dont go out much.”