WANTED: One operator to conduct tours of a working lighthouse in Tasmania.
The Table Cape lighthouse is the only working Commonwealth-operated lighthouse in the state with public access.
Three tour groups had a look inside and took in the spectacular views from the top as guide Karl Rowbottom took his last visitors through the 124-year-old lighthouse yesterday.
No more tours will be held until a new operator is found.
Mr Rowbottom, who had been the keeper of the lighthouses at remote Tasman Island and at Low Head, said it was important Tasmania's lighthouse history was kept alive and he hoped a new operator would come forward.
The tender will be advertised soon.
Table Cape Lighthouse was opened to the public in 2010 and the tours had been run by Van Diemen Quality Bulbs, which owns a tulip farm nearby.
Mr Rowbottom was one of three guides who took people up the 25m-high lighthouse, which has views extending to Stanley and to Low Head, north of Launceston.
The lighthouse was built in 1888 after several ships were damaged when they hit Table Cape on their way to Wynyard to collect produce.
Three keepers lived on site for the first 30 years of the lighthouse's operation but automation of the lighting system meant they were no longer needed.
The Cape Bruny lighthouse is also open to the public but it is not a working lighthouse.
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