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Eastport, West Quoddy Head, and LubecFor something different, a post started with a sunset. This is Eastport, Maine.
It was great to revisit Downeast Maine. The next morning it was back to West Quoddy Head in search of a sunrise. But the clouds on the horizon made for a late sunrise.
Fuji colors (Vivid film simulation) in this last photo.
Here is Lubec Channel Light, the international bridge to Campobello on the right, Lubec on the left, and Eastport in the distance on the left.
Compare the tide in the photo to last year's image. The tidal difference here is over 20 feet.
Roadside MontanaThis will be the last trip posting for a while. It is fall here in Maine and although the leaves are very late in changing colors, they are starting. That means fall photos.
Wheat fields and smoke -- the forest fires were worse later.
Snow fences north of Dillon. Gallatin Canyon, Portal Creek Road.
Mountain biking outside Bozeman, which you can see in the valley below.
Evidences of a wildfire along I 94 in Columbus just a couple of weeks earlier. Notice the retardant sprayed across the highway and median?
Badlands in eastern Montana. I'll be back with more trip photos later. Possibly some from Virginia City (a so-called ghost town), but definitely some from Theodore Roosevelt National Park (Southern Unit) in North Dakota. Ghost town: Bannack, MontanaIt is hard for me to remain objective about this next ghost town. It is one of my favorite places. And I don't mean just in Montana. It has history, isolation, scenery. The state of Montana has preserved it without commercializing it, and I hope it continues this way. So let's visit Bannack, Montana, the one-time Territorial Capital, gold-rush boom-town, corrupt lawman hangout.
The Meade Hotel and Skinner's Saloon are the prominent buildings in this panorama (taken from the south side of the street).
We'll go in the hotel (you can go in many of the buildings.)
Looking out across the street to the school/Masonic hall.
Inside Skinner's, which has been restored from the recent flash-flood damage.
The church, and, below, inside.
The jail:
The school (lower floor):
This is just west of town in the campground. There was work going on to build a containment pond to protect the town from flash floods, so access to the graveyard and gallows site was restricted. I hope you enjoyed the visit to Bannack as much as I. Let me know what you think in the comments. Later in this trip we visited a so-called ghost town, but it was very much inhabited. Beartooth Highway, or was it?My sister said I had to drive the Beartooth Highway. And to get there from Bozeman, you make a loop through a small corner of Yellowstone National Park -- a busy place on a summer weekend. Outside the park:
And then just inside the North Entrance:
Mammoth Hot Springs
Undine Falls
The Yellowstone River near Tower Falls Landscape recovering from old forest fires:
The Lamar Valley:
This panorama is too broad to allow you to see the wildlife scattered along the river.
Beartooth Lake
Yes, pink snow.
And continued up the highway:
Into the clouds. None of the famed views were visible. And, it got down to 37ºF. (My niece ran the camera here.) Eventually we dropped back out of the clouds.
And wound our way down the mountain.
And, after a very long day, were back in Bozeman in time for moonrise.
Fairy Lake, Bridger Range
The warning was about a month old and there were a lot of people around, so I was not (too) concerned. Fairy Lake is a scenic small mountain lake in the Custer Gallatin National Forest, Bridger Range of Montana. The rough gravel access road is open-range so sometimes you share the road with cattle.
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