Reward!
Some are still under too much water for my arms, so long
tall Luke is employed to hang as far over the dinghy as possible and
pluck. (I did ask before I put this
picture in the blog LOL!)
And the rewards of 45 minutes work – 10 pounds of shells.
Again – mmm.. even Smokey likes them and she is a typical
picky cat.
We waited out a day of fog and rain, left early the next morning heading for Vinalhaven. The day was sunny and clear at Buckle, but about 4 miles out, we ran into fog. As previously mentioned, I HATE fog. It was dense enough that Luke took Latitudes near the shore and anchored while we waited again for the fog to lift. It did - sorta - and we headed back out about an hour later. All was fine, until, uh oh....a wall of fog.
Fortunately, we were only about 10 miles from Vinalhavel! The fog dissipated as we entered Carvers Harbor. In the early day, while the lobstermen are out putting down their evil lobster floats and toggles, the harbor is relatively empty.
Later in the afternoon, when the lobstermen have returned, the harbor is entirely different!
The boat directly in front of us turned out to be a good thing! There are only 3 rental/guest moorings in the entire harbor. They were all taken by the time we arrived. No room to anchor here! As we circled slowly and sadly, Luke suggested calling to the lobster boat Abigail N. sitting at the lobstermen's co-op and asking if he knew of any available private moorings that someone may want to rent for a few nights. He did - had one himself! He made sure we found the right mooring, collected his fee for 3 nights, and we are safe and sound in Carvers Harbor.
Main Street looks a bit dismal, but actually, there is a great little grocery store, a few nice shops, small hotel, restaurants, coffee shop, and a couple of museums in town.
This little restaurant sits, literally, above the water. A reversing spillway allows the rushing water to run back and forth twice each day.
The old fire house sits on the docks. This hook and ladder car, the water tank, and a few hose reels were all bought in 1888 for a whopping $5000. The museum volunteer said that it took the community 2 years to raise the money.
Like much of the region, Vinalhaven also had an important granite quarry. This old picture shows the granite being cut by Italian stoneworkers. Just look at the detailed work these men are doing! And then it gets loaded on a train and hopefully gets to it's intended destination in the same condition.
Talent still exists in this little town. This is the home of artist Robert Indiana. He is the guy who did the LOVE sculpture - the block with the 4 letters. A link to him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_(sculpture)
His home is the old Oddfellows Hall.
A more recent sculpture - HOPE - sits in front of the home.
And there is more talent! Luke saw a flier for a combination art show/cello concert. It was held in an old, small, renovated barn - capacity is about 50. We knew it was going to be good when we arrived almost 30 minuets early and had to stand in line. The artist is Richard Entel. Formerly a town doctor, he also is an artist. His collection Cardboard Menagerie, is a group of large animals, made of cardboard and broken violin pieces. Pretty amazing work!
The giraffe
The elephant
Here is a link to his webpage http://entelmenagerie.squarespace.com/
The cellist, Eugene Friesen, was amazing! http://www.celloman.com/ From Bach to original compositions that include cello music with humpback whale singing to African influenced music was all beautiful. Hopefully, this you-tube link will play. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Bvr3R73BY
The computer gods are not very happy right now -going to quit and publish before I lose all of this!
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