Brother's Keeper

My father was the keeper of the Eddystone Light.
He married a mermaid one fine night.

If you can sing the rest, and you have a commercial boat operator's license and a taste for innkeeping 4 nights a week and solitude the rest, you should apply for the lighthouse operator's position on East Brother Island out here.

A Richmond nonprofit is looking for a couple to serve as lighthouse keepers on East Brother Island, a 1-acre rock in San Pablo Bay. The winning applicants will keep tabs on the flashing Fresnel light and a pair of foghorns, and will run the inn housed in the 1874 lighthouse, which still has a functioning Coast Guard light.

Income from the bed-and-breakfast pays for the island maintenance and supports the lighthouse keepers, who earn between $70,000 and $100,000, plus room and board.

I have a feeling this might be one of those jobs that sounds better when reading about it on a blog than it would in real life.