Fiddle Reef, 8 cables NE of Oak Bay Marina, dries 8

feet. Fiddle Reef light (No 215) is shown from a white

square structure.

British Columbia Small Craft Guide: Ottawa, 1973, p.28

"It is in that way that I remember the lighthouse; small, squat and seemingly far away. The latter quality though, might be in part from Fiddle Reef having been BC’s smallest lighthouse — appearing more distant for that, in the manner of the miniature statues that appeared much larger at the far end of Baroque architectural, “perspectiva,” constructions. The present automated tower has existed on the base of the former lighthouse since 1978." — Donald Lawrence

Fiddle Reef lighthouse existed for eighty years, from 1898 to 1978, on a small islet roughly in the middle of Victoria’s Oak Bay. Sometime in the last two or so of those years the artist as a young man saw the lighthouse a mile off Willows Beach from a small plywood boat — a crude kayak of sorts — that he had at the time. It was more than twenty years later, when he arrived with a Klepper folding kayak to visit the lighthouse, that he realized that it was gone. This project re-imagines the Fiddle Reef lighthouse as a kayak-towable Portable Lighthouse and an on-site installation.