With our house nearly sold, we have formulated a Maine bucket list. Ninety-nine days left...
First stop, Nubble Light in Cape Neddick. It is a wonder how we've driven through York dozens of times and never stopped at this super famous lighthouse. This lighthouse is so famous that aliens somewhere may have even seen a picture of it (a photograph of the lighthouse is one of the objects loaded onto NASA's Voyager II). It is just as you would imagine a lighthouse - quaint, isolated - and it is totally surrounded by the moat of the Atlantic! The best part of the lighthouse is the "bucket" for carrying supplies from the mainland to the light. I was disappointed to see that the "bucket" is not used for human transport (although it did transport a child or two to school in the past). There has not been a lighthouse keeper since the late 80's when the light was automated, which is too bad. I just love the Anne-of-Green-Gables-esque romanticism of a family living out on small Nubble Rock.
First stop, Nubble Light in Cape Neddick. It is a wonder how we've driven through York dozens of times and never stopped at this super famous lighthouse. This lighthouse is so famous that aliens somewhere may have even seen a picture of it (a photograph of the lighthouse is one of the objects loaded onto NASA's Voyager II). It is just as you would imagine a lighthouse - quaint, isolated - and it is totally surrounded by the moat of the Atlantic! The best part of the lighthouse is the "bucket" for carrying supplies from the mainland to the light. I was disappointed to see that the "bucket" is not used for human transport (although it did transport a child or two to school in the past). There has not been a lighthouse keeper since the late 80's when the light was automated, which is too bad. I just love the Anne-of-Green-Gables-esque romanticism of a family living out on small Nubble Rock.
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