tranters travels: MERRY OLD NEW ENGLAND

A LOT OF NATIONAL PARKS WERE ONCE BIG ESTATES THIS IS IN ACADIA NP MAINE

WE GORGED ON THE FRUITS DE MER CLAMS,LOBSTERS AND FISH

BAR HARBOUR MAINE THE COAST AND ISLANDS OF NEW ENGLAND STREWN WITH FISHING AND OLD WHALING TOWNS

TYPICAL NEW ENGLAND FARMHOUSE WITH WHAT WOULD HAVE N\BEEN LIVESTOCK BARNS ATTACHED TO HOUSE

THIS LIGHTHOUSE TYPICAL OF MANY AROUND THE COAST INSPIRED LOGFELLOW'S SONNET THE LIGHTHOUSE PORTLAND HEAD MAINE

TYPICAL COASTLINE PORTLAND

THE FAST FLOWING RIVERS ENABLED COTTON MILLS TO SPRING UP OVER NEW ENGLAND AND CHEAP IMMIGRANT LABOUR LED TO THE LATE 1800'S INDUSTRIAL BOOM.NOW THE TOWNS ARE LITTERD WITH OLD FACTORIES SLOWLY DECAYING OR AWAITING CONVERSION INTO BOUTIQUE SHOPS AND RETAURANTS

WHEN WE GOT A NEW SET OF FEET FOUND THAT THE SECOND SPARE WE GOT FOR OUR ALASKA TRIP DIDN'T FIT. SO ABOUT 37000KM WITHOUT A SPARE!!WE JETTISONED THE OTHER ONE WHEN WE HAD A BLOWOUT IN ALASKA

SITE OF THE FIRST BATTLE THAT SATRTED THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION NEAR CONCORDE

SALEM THE WITCHHUNT MONUMENT

THE MONUMENT 18 WERE HUNG AND ONE POOR FELLOW CRUSHED TO DEATH WITH ROCKS.NOT NICE CHAPS THOSE PURITANS

MARBLEHEAD A BEAUTIFUL OLD WHALING PORT NORTH OF BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS

PLYMOUTH ROCK PROTECTOR

BIT OF A DISAPPOINTMENT.WHERE THE FIRST PURITANS MADE SHORE.NOT TRUE ACTUALLY THEY LANDED FIRST NEAR PRINCETOWN CAPE COD BUT NOT SUITABLE.THEY WERE ACTUALLY MEANT TO GO TO NEW YORK.

WALL TO WALL HOLIDAY COTTAGES NEAR THE END OF CAPE COD.

DUNES CAPE COD

THIS IS WHERE HERMAN MELVILLE STAYED ON MARTHA'S VINEYARD .THE WHALING CAPTAIN HIS HOST WAS THE INSPIRATION FOR CAPT AHAB IN MOBY DICK

NEWPORT (AMERICA'S CUP) MANSION ROW. ALL THE WEALTHY NEW YORK BANKERS HAD THEIR SUMMER MANSIONS HERE AND TRIED TO OUT DO EACH OTHER. MANY ARE STILL HOMES TO THE RICH AND FAMOUS BUT A LOT ARE PART OF THE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS AND FACULTIES.