Sunday Afternoon:

Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada

We took the short drive through Lubec and crossed the bridge into Canada on the way to visit East Quoddy Lighthouse. The island is 9 miles long but only about 3 miles at the widest.

East Quoddy Lighthouse is unique because it sits on the last of a series of 3 small islands...at least they are islands during high tide. When the tide is out, however you can descend the rickety stairs and walk across to the next island until you ultimately reach the lighthouse. This trek is definitely not for the "easily winded" I can tell you that. The challenge is to make sure you get back before the tide comes in because if you don't make it in time you will be stranded for about 8 hours (so bring a deck of cards or a harmonica or something because there is nothing to do except watch the waves).

The lighthouse itself is like everything else up here. Very scenic, quaint, rustic, unique, etc... We had a lot of fun even though it was locked up tight as a drum. Dylan kept trying to find a way in until he actually read the notice on the door warning of intrusion alarms. We're not sure how many he set off but was probably more than one.

We stopped at a little restaurant on the way back for a Father's Day lunch. Marcie, Dylan and I had clam chowder and lazy man's lobster which was 2 pounds of lobster meat that they had already removed from the shell. No fighting for it. Braxton took the easy way out and ordered a pepperoni pizza... think about that one for a minute. We go all the way to Maine for...pizza? He won't live that one down for a very long time.

Our last stop on the island was at former President Franklin D Roosevelt's summer cottage. How anyone can build a 34 room mansion, call it a cottage and only visit it three times is beyond me. I think they meant to say that he visited 3 times after becoming president but it still seems a bit extravagant. Nice place though.

That's it for now: Craig