Maine Day Five - Campobello Island

We went to Campobello Island in New Brunswick. The island is only about 10 miles across. The tide difference from high to low was higher here than along the coast of Maine. We had a really fun day here and even saw some seals and a whale.

 President Roosevelt had a summer cottage on Campobello Island. We stopped and toured it. It was preserved in the period that he spent here. It was really interesting. It had 18 bedrooms, several of which were maids rooms. Three floors. This last picture is the view from the back of the house. That is Bay of Fundy.

 That is a seal peeking out of the water. We saw a few by the lighthouse right after we got on the island.

This lighthouse is on the north end of the island. There are only three hours a day that you can walk to it. This was low tide and at high tide, where we were walking, would be covered over with 24+ feet of water. We didn't actually walk over to the lighthouse. You can see those stairs Danny is climbing in the picture above this one. There is an even steeper set going down below the pine tree in the bottom picture and then it's a little hike across rocks to get over to the lighthouse. The picture doesn't show the depth or distance very well. While we were standing here we did see a whale out in the water. It would just pop out for a second or so at a time and we weren't able to catch it on camera.
On the way home we saw lots of trucks out clamming. We talked to a local and he said the clam price was high right now so lots of people were taking advantage of it.