Along with the ever changing seas surging through the rocks combined with the gusting winds “Barking Rocks lighthouse” got its name by the strange noises it could sometimes emit, the haunting sounds of dogs sometimes whimpering, occasionally howling but often barking!. . .

...Then there were the nights, the special nights when the sea was right and the wind was right and the rocks would “bark.” They would party long into the early hours celebrating its mysterious sounds but as this happened most nights and the “barking” was so loud there probably wasn’t really any point in trying to sleep anyway. They could save that for the sunny days ahead.