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Spring Cleaning On-Island
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Even a barely-inhabited island requires sprucing up in May. SeacoastNH.com rides
along with a few Smuttynose Stewards, a volunteer group that helps maintain the
protected environment on one of the historic Isles of Shoals. (See PHOTOS)
It’s almost Smuttynose time again. But before we can spend a quiet week in the
Haley Cottage, there’s a laundry list of chores to complete. So while the rest
of the Seacoast sweltered in a record-breaking 90 degree May heat wave, we spent
the weekend preparing the island for the inevitable flow of summer visitors.
This trip began at the Wentworth Marina, packed with luxurious double-decker
yachts. The contrast to Smuttynose at the Isles of Shoals could not be more dramatic. On-island, twenty minutes later, there are just two
stark uninsulated wooden buildings with no electricity and no running water. Each
summer a dozen pairs of volunteer stewards maintain the structures, greet and
monitor visitors, trim the grounds and clear the trail that winds to the back
of the island dominated by thousands of nesting gulls.
We joined Laurey, John, Kate and Marge who were trimming brush, planting the
garden and mowing the expanding lawn. Richard, who had been on-island all week,
is working inside the restored 18th century cabin. This year, for the first time in two decades, a new flag welcomes
visitors. A gull has settled her nest about two feet from the new flagpole. That
means she and her mate will be screaming at us each time we step out onto the
lawn this summer. The sumac, which will soon dominate the area behind the cottage,
has just begun to bud. By June, the vegetation will swallow the trails and crowd
up toward the ancient house.
We could hear crews working at the Oceanic Hotel across the harbor in Star Island. The lawnmover hummed. Lobster boats chugged
by. The cove, brimful when we arrived, was almost fully drained when we climbed,
tired and peaceful, into the boat for the trip "back to America". We left Richard,
looking a bit like old Captain Sam Haley who once owned the island, standing blissfully
alone again.
Following are a few spring photos from this year’s early visit. The island, for
those considering a visit, has no hotel, no ferry, no roads, no store, no camping
area, no fresh water, no food shops, no rest rooms, no shade trees, no picnic
area, no fireplaces, no lifeguard, no public mooring, no first-aid station. It
is an island as all island’s once were – primitive and very quiet – except when
the gulls are screaming your name.
All photos by J. Dennis Robinson
READ: Smuttynose Diaries
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