Lighthouses of New England

I thought perhaps we'd take a little trip up the New England Coast and into Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and check out a few lighthouses today.  It's been so brutally hot and humid here in Florida for the past few weeks, that a nice, cool trip in the North sounds oh, so good!

Our first lighthouse is Maugher Beach, Nova Scotia (built in 1815).  I loved the morning light and this was taken off of our aft balcony of the Caribbean Princess (Princess CL) just after dawn, sailing in to Halifax, Nova Scotia

A short bus ride away, we visited Peggy's Cove and the Peggy's Point Lighthouse (1868), which you might remember from an earlier post

The next day, cruising in to St. John, New Brunswick, we get a view of Partridge Island (1791)

One of the excursions we chose to do was a river cruise up the St. John River on a double-decker riverboat called the Voyageur II (photo borrowed from Princess Cruises)





Along the river we found McColgan Point Lighthouse (1913)

and Bayswater Lighthouse (1913), which also has a lovely covered bridge next to it!

Working our way back up the river, we see Swift Point Lighthouse (1896)



Now we are in Bar Harbor, Maine - which the locals pronouce Bah Haba.  This was one our our favorite ports on this trip.  The scenery was fabulous, and I'll share more of that in another post.  This is Bear Island Lighthouse (1889)



Farther along in our trip, we spent a wonderful day in Boston.  We fell in love with Boston.  There is SO much to see there and Boston will most likely take up a post by itself!  Leaving Boston Harbor, we have Graves Light Station (1903) closest to us, and in the distance you also see the Boston Harbor Lighthouse (1716).



Our last port of call was Newport, Rhode Island.  This was a seven-day cruise and five ports of call.  We were exhausted, to say the least.  MedicMan and I decided that we would make Newport a "sea day" and we stayed on the ship, letting all of the other passengers visit the mansions of people such as the Vanderbilts, and the yachts that grace Newport.  It started out as a very foggy day, but it quickly burned off and we spent much of the day napping in deck chairs in full view of both the marina and Rose Island Light Station (1869).



Leaving Newport, we see the Newport Harbor or Goat Island Lighthouse (1851)



and the Castle Hill Lighthouse (1890)

and into the evening, our last night on board heading back to Manhatten, we catch the beautiful beacon on the water of the Beavertail Lighthouse (1754)

I hope you enjoyed our lighthouse journey.  We are planning to one day do this cruise again - there are probably hundreds more lighthouses that we missed! Next weekend MedicMan and some friends (Gone Country and Country Boy) are traveling and will (hopefully) have some new lighthouse shots for you to enjoy, although I don't think the weather will be quite as cool where we are going!

Until then,

Live life and laugh often!

Mama Shutta' Bug