Here's my class report on my summer vacation to Maine.
Here are some pictures from our 2 week vacation to Maine. We drove up from D.C. and stopped at Liberty State Park in N.J. at around lunch time. We had a picninc basket with us in the trunk. Looked at the Manhatten skyline for a while, and let the kids play in the playground. It was the first time I'd seen the skyline in person since it changed 9/11. Turns out our stop was just long enough to let the traffic really build up at the toll to cross the GW bridge. Rookiee mistake.:
After arriving in Maine, 11 of us (my parents, siblings, their spouses, neice, nephew, my wife and kids and I) took a boat over to Monhegan Island. Monhegan Island is twelve miles off the coast, about a mile or two long, and half a mile wide. It has had a fishing village on it for centuries. The rest of the island is wilderness with trails on it. It is saved as a nature preserve due to the generosity of Thomas Edison's rich grandson. He bought up all the undeveloped property on the island and donated it to a preservation foundation he set up. Basically, the only thing to do there is to hike around and enjoy the scenery.
Back in 1948 the D.T. Sheridan tugboat lost power in a fierce winter storm. The crew was rescued, but the boat was thrown up on the rocks. Now kids can climb all over it:
More D.T. Sheridan wreck. Stern.
Whole view of wreck:
