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).
I wonder how deep in that bolt goes... and how long it's been there.
ReplyDeleteWe 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.
ReplyDeleteI am glad to see you had a good time in a place we love also!
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.
ReplyDeleteNo, I'm not bitter. Why do you ask?
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.
ReplyDeleteThat parking lot, looking across at the Nubble, is where my father proposed to my mother.
ReplyDeleteASM826, that is so cool.
ReplyDeleteLighthouse keeper duty can be really cool...Especially south of the 24th parallel. (It's too damn cold up in y'all territory.)
ReplyDeleteLoggerhead 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