Showing posts with label Maine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maine. Show all posts

Saturday, 14 August 2010

(17) Pemaquid




First built in 1827, I visited 180 years later on 21st June 2007. It seemed a long journey to get to the tip of this peninsula. It was worth it though, the rocks that it sits on are stunning and attract many geologists to study them
This is the only lighthouse that I have been inside and to the top of, for no other reason than I am more attracted to the view of them, rather than from them. But I enjoyed my climb to the top and infact the whole visit to Pemaquid.

(16) Nubble


This is the first of seven lighthouses seen in one trip to Maine. There are a lot of lighthouses here but you're not falling over them you have to find them, which is half the fun.
This is Cape Neddick known as Nubble and if it is familiar then you've probably seen it in a guide book or an advert for Maine, it is one of it's most famous lighthouses.
It was a bit of a dull day when we visited on 20th June 2007. It's a really good spot though and a popular toursit attraction.
There's a bucket on a winch to get supplies from the island to the mainland, back in the 1960's the lighthouse keeper put his children in and winched them over so that they could go to school!