lighthouse cruise

laura and i have been riding high on our lighthouse trip for a few months now.

 a few months ago i had found a lighthouse cruise that the calvert marine museum offers, but there weren't any more being offered this season, so i put our names on a waiting list.

then they called and said they had room, but on a sunday cruise, bummer!

then they called and said that because they'd had so much interest, they were adding another saturday cruise, hooray!

*cool workshop at the cmm

we signed up months ago and have been so excited!

*more of the cool workshop.

 i totally want to get christian a job in a workshop like this, wouldn't that be the coolest?

we rode on a charter boat called never e-nuff.

there's laura to the right of the boat.

 

i looooove asking people to take pictures, it's so funny.

trying to get us with the lighthouse.

take 2.

and take 3.

drum point lighthouse behind us.

soooo fun!

we all hung out on the open end of the boat until we got going too fast and the water was soooo rough that we were getting soaked. we were trying to get a picture of the waves coming up and over the boat as we powered through them, but it was kinda difficult.

the first off land lighthouse i've seen, point no point.

and all the water splashing us.

it was so amazing!

there's just something about this lighthouse that i have loved since i first learned about it.

and it was fabulous to see it out there in the water by itself.

so.cool.

from there we kept powering south to point lookout.

planning on climbing her on oct 6. :)

fyi.

the water was so rough that we had to skip smith point. :( super bummed! but by that point i was starting to feel sea sick, so even though i would have pushed through the pain to be able to see that lh, i was kind of okay with skipping it.

 

our next stop was smith island for lunch. we had some extra time before lunch, so laura and i meandered the island.

they had a cute little school.

and a cute little motel
($65 a night in case you were wondering)

and a cute little cemetery.

smith island is famous for their smith island 10-layer-cake.

in 2008 it even became the maryland state dessert, so it's pretty big time. ;)

the funny thing about smith island, it runs totally on island time and nothing was open.

 like, it's saturday afternoon, a tour boat shows up on an island that 300 people live on, accessible only by boat, and nothing is open. not the gift shop, bakery, tiny grocery store, post office, not even the restaurant we were to eat lunch at. they didn't open for us until 11:30.

very odd little place.

anyways, we ate the famous cream of crab soup (delish!), crab cakes, and of course a big old piece of smith island cake, and were on our way!

next up was the solomons lump lighthouse.

then the holland island bar lighthouse.

that's not really a lighthouse anymore, but it had the coolest story.

a keeper was found dead in a pool of blood, and after an autopsy was performed it was said determined that he died of natural causes.

 weird.

then it was destroyed by friendly fire, while the keepers were there!

the military accidentally shot at it during target practice instead of shooting at their actual target a couple miles away.

talk about a bad day at work.

then we went into the cabin and i took a nap (i was full and slightly seasick, don't judge) until we got to the hooper island lighthouse.

then they y took us by the site of the old cedar point lighthouse right off of the coast of the base.

the lighthouse basically sank because of underwater excavating.

so sad.

 

and then the smith island cake i saved to share with the family.

 

that was the longest i have left delaney and matt said she did great. she drank the bottles i left and napped and played, so yay!

it was a fabulous day spent with a fabulous friend viewing some fabulous lighthouses.

absolutely fabulous!