Famous

LUBEC, ME - - The West Quoddy Head Light is quite recognizable and famous. Its depiction graces travel stories and calenders and, probably, tens of thousands of photo albums (prints and digital). The light station is located in Lubec, Maine, at what the brochure calls the easternmost point of land in the U.S. This point of fact is hotly debated by the folks in Eastport just across the bay...but that's another story.

THIS photo was shot in quickly grey-ing weather and at lowering tide. The rock outcrop seen to the right is underwater at high tide. Here, where the Bay of Fundy creates very high (and low) tides, strong tidal currents and unpredictable weather and heavy fog the light and foghorn stand a 24 hour vigil. The light station's signature is: two seconds on; two seconds off; two seconds on; nine seconds off.