Have you ever envisioned a layout, then do it and it ends up NOTHING like
> you thought it would! This is the one!
> It is an event that happens just down the road from our trailer every
> night. And every weekday night at 8:45 Kailey and I would walk down to the
> lighthouse and watch the phantom piper pipe down the sun. Hearing the
> bagpipes just sooth my heart and soul. And all the beautiful sunsets we saw
> this summer were absolutely breathtaking!
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> Here is the story of the phantom piper if you want to read
it...............
Back in 1856, on a cold, October day, a small vessel left the Port of
> Goderich carrying a family from the Isle of Skye, Scotland. It was the final
> leg of a journey for the immigrant family that intended to farm at
> Kincardine.The weather was cloudy with a light breeze out of the southwest
> when the vessel left Goderich. But as the boat approached Point Clark, the
> sky turned black and a cold wind started to blow out of the west making for
> heavier and heavier seas.As the vessel slowly beat its way north, late
> afternoon turned to dusk and the captain feared he would not find
> Kincardine in the dark.Donald Sinclair, fearing for his family, went down
> into the hold and fetched his pipes. He prayed for safe passage and then
> played a lament. The sound of the pipes carried across the water to
> Kincardine where another piper heard the rich sound. The settler on shore
> retrieved his pipes and played another lament in return, just as the sky
> suddenly cleared in the west and the sun set beneath the cold waters.The
> captain, knowing he had to be near Kincardine, headed for the drone of the
> bagpipes and eventually made his way into the harbour.For many years after
> the narrow escape, Donald Sinclair often went down to the harbour to play
> the pipes at dusk. They say it was a way to remember his good fortune and to
> remind others of the power of the pipes. And it's in the memory of Donald
> Sinclair that the Kincardine Scottish has decided to play at dusk atop the
> lighthouse on sunny summer evenings. The piper will only appear when the sun
> sets and will pipe the sun down.
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