very picturesque

by bj , Thursday, October 02, 2014, 20:23 (3646 days ago) @ Creeker

and that one is barely in Maine.

Can't really tell from the photo but that lighthouse is on an island that is something like 100 feet offshore. (My wife and I were there 3 weeks ago.)

Maine is known for lighthouses and there are a lot of them even though some states have more. Most of the Maine lighthouses are on islands that you can't get to easily. We did manage to find a few that we could see up close but we didn't get to go inside any of them. I thought that was odd since on the Oregon coast there were numerous lighthouses that you could go inside. I was impressed that many of the lighthouses in Maine were very old, including one somewhere that was commissioned by George Washington.

We drove all the way to Bar Harbor. Many of the towns we visited were crowded and choked with gift shops. We got off the beaten path at a few places and found lobster shacks where we could eat without the crowds. I managed to eat seafood for lunch and dinner every day except for one meal. Lobster rolls might be common but I think they're great.