Night emergency and sphagetti with periwinkles

Trip Start Jun 23, 1980
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Trip End Aug 09, 1980


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Monday, July 14, 1980

About 1:30 someone started  knocking on the side of my van and shouting for help, quite taken by surprise with no idea what was up but I got opened the window and a somehat excited young guy started telling me he his boat had run out of gas and with the tide chage would be smashed on the rocks if I didn't help him get some. He had relatives on Beal and he could get some there.  Now I took him over and it looked like everybody's name was Beal on their mail boxes,  so her I was in a dark green cargo van, out of state tags and pulling into someones back yard by their boat house in the middle of the night while this stranger ran into the boathouse and came out with a can of gas.  I was a little nervous waiting for a bunch of lacals coming out after me with shotguns.  But all was quiet and I took him back and helped him push his boat out and then went back to bed in the sme spot.  Got up that morning about 6:22 rearranged things in the van.  I spotted a red-tail hawk looking for fish and while I was watching him a deer came up the beach from the Jonesport direction Great Wass Island
Great Wass Island
 .  I walked out to the island and did my tai chi.   Met a lady from Pennsylvania who had just inherited a blueberry farm across the street and she was checking it out.  I told her I was interested in Great Wass Island but there had been privaate signs that had kept me from exploring it.  She said to disregard the signs and I should follow the road out to the  end where there was an old Coast Guard station.  So thats where I went after getting come groceries in Jonesport.  I parked in front a a chian across the road and walked about 1/4 mile to station.  Beautiful place  and I went back to get my camera.  Later met three people who were living on the island in a primative shack belonging to the Nature Conservancy who owned a good bit of the island.  they invited me for dinner which I went to that evening.  They served sphagetti with a sauce that had peiwinkles(real chewy shellfish that where on the rocks and orca? a wild spinich like plant.  The first time I ever had that combination and probably the last-very interesting but filling and at least a cooked meal.  Stayed on the island for the night-one of my more eventful days.  Paintings available through my website  http://home.earthlink.net/~greenvanartusa/index.html
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