It is a family station with a complement of four men who maintain a first order light, fog signal and radio beacon.

To reach the light, men assigned must descend 308 steps on the headland from the plateau above the station where the family quarters are situated.

Buildings maintained on the property, in addition to the family quarters, are the fog signal building, engine room, pump house, paint locker, double garage and a four-car carport with adjoining office and workshop.

The station is frequently blanketed by week-long periods of fog and few years pass that do not see violent gales of 75 to 100 miles per hour (121 to 161 km/h) strike the area.

Kees, together with filmmaker and photographer William Heick, later made a documentary film about the lighthouse and its environs in 1954-55.