Friday, May 21, 2010

The lonely Lighthouse Keeper


Nubble Light in York, Maine, is one of that state's southernmost lighthouses. This makes it a very popular destination for legions of Day Trippers up from Boston. You'd think it would be overrun.


It's not, because it's on an island. An island with no bridge to the mainland. You use this chair that runs over a cable to move back and forth.


As you'd imagine, that's one righteous cable. It's bolted into the living granite (my 10 1/2 for scale).

7 comments:

bluesun said...

I wonder how deep in that bolt goes... and how long it's been there.

Toaster 802 said...

We were just in York a couple of weeks ago. We had been going after Labor day the last couple of years, but this trip in the spring was far more enjoyable due to less people.

I am glad to see you had a good time in a place we love also!

Anonymous said...

I was there once... sorta. Dad has this minor obsession with lighthouses (everywhere we go, if there's a lighthouse, wehave to go see it!), only we couldn't figure out how to get to the island. Actually, no, Mom and Dad couldn't figure it out. My brother and I figured it out after about five minutes, but noooooo..... we were just a bunch of kids who had no clue what we were talking about.

No, I'm not bitter. Why do you ask?

ZerCool said...

I don't believe I've been to Nubble, which is odd, since my folks have roughly the same fascination with lighthouses as Raptor's ... and goodness knows there are plenty within a day trip of the family cabin near Bath.

ASM826 said...

That parking lot, looking across at the Nubble, is where my father proposed to my mother.

Borepatch said...

ASM826, that is so cool.

The Big Guy said...

Lighthouse keeper duty can be really cool...Especially south of the 24th parallel. (It's too damn cold up in y'all territory.)

Loggerhead is 72 miles west of Key West...it's a little far for a zipline chair. ;)

Some posts from my stints out on Loggerhead Key in the Dry Tortugas...

http://l2uj.blogspot.com/2007/07/feet-dont-fail-me-now.html

http://l2uj.blogspot.com/2007/07/helicopter-invasion.html

http://l2uj.blogspot.com/2007/07/out-of-mixers.html

http://l2uj.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-citizens-from-south-of-gulf-stream.html

http://l2uj.blogspot.com/2007/08/pretty-pictures-from-loggerhead.html

http://l2uj.blogspot.com/2007/07/eagle-hasnt-landed.html

http://l2uj.blogspot.com/2007/07/storm-front.html

I'm scheduled to go out again in August, but there are some issues with the watermaker and the PV array, so the volunteer program has temporarily been suspended, but I'm hoping they get it back on-line by August. (I have my doubts since it's a government bid environment. It took almost 3 years to get the bathrooms on Garden Key repaired...)

TBG