Off-Season Travel

Would you believe that the local high school's graduation exercises were tonight? Students here attend school for ten months out of the year. The "high season" for tourism begins July 1st. Consequently we have experienced very little traffic on the roads and semi-private experiences like the whale watching on Tuesday with only two other people aboard besides us and the boat's captain. We were the only two people out hunkered down looking for amethysts today...for 2.5 hours...in the burning sun... We DID see a moose today...a drawing on a highway sign. If there hadn't been a car behind us, we would have taken a picture of the sign. It was HOT on the rocky beach this morning, but lovely to be outside. We saw a deer (really!) on our way back to the highway after visiting the lighthouse at Cape D'Or--a doe, who vanished into the trees before we could obtain photographic evidence of her existence. Yesterday, as we were photographing the rainbow we saw a pheasant (really!). Goodnight!