On our way farther downeast we stopped at Swan's Island. My second visit there. After exchanging emails with Deb, she graciously offered to give us a tour of her home on Toothache Cove.
We had a throughly enjoyable time hearing about their life on Swan's Island and seeing their beautiful, custom built home. They have spectacular ocean views from every room in the house (Ed pointed out you have to leave the bathroom door open to make the statement completely true). We're determined to return here again and take Deb and Ed up on their offer to give us a tour of the island.
It is both fun and scary to imagine life on an island without a supermarket or even a drug store.
We were moored in Burnt Coat Harbor which is dominated by Lobster boats. There were very few pleasure craft around. Every morning at dawn the (loud) lobster boats head out to sea. In early afternoon they return and pull up, one by one, to a little green shed at the co-op (or other dock). They pull their catch out of a holding tank and put them in plastic crates. The crates are then passed through the green shed where I presume they are weighed. Next, they are strung together and put back in the water where they stay until (often the next day) they are manually hoisted up by a small pulley and crane and put into trucks to be sent off island for sale.
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