While the weather for the majority of our week in Maine was less than perfect, it didn't stop us from getting out & exploring most days. On Wednesday we went in search of a few more lighthouses. When we got the the Two Lights State Park, we were totalled engulfed in fog, barely able to make out the shoreline. We could hear the fog horn but couldn't see any lighthouses. So I began to explore the rocky shoreline. I gingerly stepped from rock to rock in search of the lighthouses, constantly hearing the fog horn & hearing it getting closer. I got further out on the rocks and then I heard the horn - LOUD & CLEAR. I was standing right in front of it when it went off again! It shook me right down to my inner core!
As Steve stood further up the rocks laughing at me!!!
I then walked further out and Steve took this picture of me. You can see how foggy it is - you can't even see out across the water! We had to actually ask a local fisherman where the lighthouses were. He pointed us in the general direction and we got in the car and went exploring up the street. We did find them - barely. These 2 lighthouses are now privatley owned, so you can't get very close to them. So I took pictures from where I could
This picture is a collage of the lighthouses we saw in Maine. The 2 clearer ones were taken on Monday night when it wasn't quite as foggy. The lighthouse you see with the light shining is actually the same lighthouse that you see in the main photo. We were able to see the Port Head Lighthouse on Monday night across the bay, but when we actually went on Wednesday to see the Port Head close up - you couldn't see back across the bay to the other 2 lighthouses.
As Steve stood further up the rocks laughing at me!!!I then walked further out and Steve took this picture of me. You can see how foggy it is - you can't even see out across the water! We had to actually ask a local fisherman where the lighthouses were. He pointed us in the general direction and we got in the car and went exploring up the street. We did find them - barely. These 2 lighthouses are now privatley owned, so you can't get very close to them. So I took pictures from where I could
This picture is a collage of the lighthouses we saw in Maine. The 2 clearer ones were taken on Monday night when it wasn't quite as foggy. The lighthouse you see with the light shining is actually the same lighthouse that you see in the main photo. We were able to see the Port Head Lighthouse on Monday night across the bay, but when we actually went on Wednesday to see the Port Head close up - you couldn't see back across the bay to the other 2 lighthouses.We really enjoyed ourselves and are planning on going back again, hopefully next year. Hopefully we'll be able to see more of Maine because the weather is clearer!
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If you want to see lighthouses and really see them, come to California! Last summer we visited a lighthouse in the Marin Headlands. To get to it you had to walk down a trail, then on a small path around a hill, through a rock tunnel and then across a bridge that is only sturdy enough to hold ONE person at a time! The same summer we went to a lighthouse that had something like 200 steps down to it, then of course the same amount up. But no fog.
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