Details of upcoming meetings and minutes of AGM meetings are posted here.

We are currently finalising plans for our 2025 AGM which will be held in Cairns on Saturday the 30th of August 2025. Further details will be posted shortly.

2024 Annual General Meeting

This years LOA AGM will be held in Kingston SE South Australia. Activities being planned across the weekend starting on Friday the 18th October 2024 include: 

Friday 18

• Logbooks exhibition in Senior Citizens Clubrooms (82 selected pages from 1872-1966)
• Trips to the Margaret Brock Reef and lighthouse platform (Limestone Coast Boat Tours)
• Day tour of the Cape Jaffa Lighthouse
• Walking tour to the CJL cottage ruins at Cape Jaffa (Friends of Butcher Gap guides)
• Night tour of the Cape Jaffa Lighthouse with light on – from 7.30pm

Saturday 19

• Trips to the MB Reef and lighthouse platform
• Day tour of CJL
• Logbooks exhibition in Senior Citizens Clubrooms
• Walking tour to CJL cottage ruins at Cape Jaffa
• AGM: 2pm, with Guest Speakers:

Relocating the CJL tower: Anne Daw (daughter, Verne McLaren).

Armin Huefner (project engineer in 1975 – footings & lower structure)                                

• DINNER @ Crown Inn Hotel, Agnes St: set menu with choices. $55 pp

Sunday 20

• Walking tour to CJL cottage ruins at Cape Jaffa
• Logbooks exhibition in Senior Citizens Clubrooms
• Morning tea at S C Clubrooms
• Speaker: 30am – 12pm: Professor Miles Lewis: “The Iron Lighthouse”

Miles Lewis, Chair, World Heritage nomination – Portable Buildings in the Nineteenth Century

• LUNCH @ Senior Citizens Clubrooms: 12 – 1.30pm: Lions Club to cater: BBQ + salads. $20pp
• Day tours of the Cape Jaffa Lighthouse
• Night tour with light on – from 7.30pm

Please book for dinner and lunch by 9th Oct to assist with catering @ https://www.capejaffalighthouse.org.au/event-details/ 

Other:

‘Lighthouse Lives’ film (Scotland), courtesy Northern Lighthouses Board

‘Saving the Platform’ (on the Margaret Brock Reef) video

In addition:

• Mt Benson wine region, 15 mins drive from Kingston: https://www.mtbensonwineregion.com.au
• Point Malcolm Lighthouse, Australia’s only inland lighthouse, 1.5 hrs drive North of Kingston, between Lake Alexandrina and Lake Albert.
• Butcher Gap Conservation Park, southern end of Kingston township
• Jip Jip Conservation Park, 50 mins drive North East of Kingston
• Long Beach to the Granites: drive for kilometres along the beach North of Kingston.
• Robe, 30 mins South of Kingston: cafes, restaurants
• Naracoorte, 60 mins East of Kingston: World Heritage Naracoorte Caves
• Penola, 75 mins South East of Kingston: historic town
• Mt Gambier, 90 mins South South East of Kingston: regional centre.

2023 Annual General Meeting

The LoA 2023 AGM followed by dinner was held on the 21st of October on the Mornington Peninsula.

Our AGM keynote speaker was Mark Sheriff OAM. Mark shared some of his experiences ameliorating some of Australia’s heritage lighthouses and the many adventures in undertaking  work over the last 25 years for which Mark was awarded an OAM in 2019.

Activities in conjunction with the AGM included lighthouse visits on Friday, Saturday and Sunday to Cape Schanck, McCrae, Point Lonsdale and the Black and White Queenscliff lighthouses.

2021 Annual General Meeting  – Reports

The AGM Meeting was held on the 8th of October at 3pm AEST using ZOOM due to travel restrictions limiting travel to Tasmania.

2021 Annual General Meeting  – Reports

2020 Annual General Meeting  – Minutes

Held using ZOOM on line – 9th October 2020