Maine Excursion

While I’m up in Maine, I decided to go adventuring with a friend of mine. It was subfreezing temperatures so we thought the best thing to do was go hiking near the ocean and take pictures. LOL

We followed route 24 down to a place called Land’s End. Basically the road just ends at a cliff. We climbed down and followed the rocky shore line. Although it was freezing out, I managed to get some good pictures.

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The Gift shop at Land’s End can be seen in this picture.

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This is a drain pipe that I thought was pretty cool. It has alot of wierd twisted ice fingers.

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This is an ice waterfall at one of the inlets of the shoreline.

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This is the cribstone bridge goin from Orr’s Island (right) to Bailey’s Island (left). About 5 years ago was my first visit to this bridge and I’d been wanting to get some photos of it. So five years later I finally get around to it. I also believe that this is the only cribstone bridge in the world.

Cribstone Bridge

Edit: Uploader seems to resize all my photos to thumbnail =/

Blizzard ’06

Blizzard seems to be a  word that New England meteorologists use for any snow storm forecast greater than four inches.  In this storm, they were mostly right.

Snow fell for most of the day ending around 7pm.  High winds with the snow fall made for almost white out conditions.  Rhode Island was put in a state of emergency banning all road traffic.

Also, for the first time, I actually heard a real announcement on the Emergency Broadcast System.  My parents were equally shocked as they’d never heard anything but the test pattern from the EBS in their life.

About two feet of snow fell when the storm was finally over.  Nice excuse to play with the snow blower >:0)

After the driveway was done, I walked with my brother to Honey Dew for a coffee.  But alas…  Honey Dew was closed T_T

Sorry I don’t have any photos to accompany this report; I was staying warm inside playing the final day of C4 PTS.

–Jeff Ski