Stonington

This is the second part to yesterday's blog. We left Castine and made our way to Deer Isle and Old Quarry Ocean Adventures, our RV site for the night. It was mid afternoon and we thought we would hang out for the rest of the day and visit Stonington in the morning.

Have you ever heard of Deer Isle Granite? Neither have either of us but we camped right next to the Old Quarry. Today, the granite is quarried on Crotch (yes) Island and barged to this transfer area where it is barged again or trucked to wherever it goes. If it goes out by truck, because of the weight, only one block can be put on a flatbed.

Right next to the granite yard was a long dock for lobster boats and a large building for a company that buys the lobsters from the boats and stores them in tank before trucking them to the processors.

Seems like we're finding that a lot of the small towns that we visit have some type of statutes. This one is on the waterfront and we just happened to park next to it. The plaque says

THIS STONE CUTTER PROUDLY STANDS AS A TRIBUTE TO THE MANY WORKERS WHOSE LABOR AND DEDICATION HAVE MADE THIS REGION KNOWN INTERNATIONALLY AS THE HOME OF DEER ISLE GRANITE

Stonington has a wonderful, busy working waterfront and is said to be the epicenter  of Maine lobstering. There many historic homes, some on the waterfront but many on the hill overlooking the waterfront. I wouldn't classify it as one of prettiest villages but it certainly is picturesque. 

And here's Shadow checking out the waterfront and wondering where all the cars and people are. He just doesn't know about the 'season'.