Thankfully the plane and bus ride were smooth.  Mr. Pope made everyone take an exceedingly long walk around Boston airport to get to the bus, and only got yelled at when Rubi saw the crosswalk that would have made the walk about thirty seconds, not the five minutes that it actually took.

We finally arrived at the Hurricane Island office, a small building in Rockland Harbor at about 1:30 PM.  The last leg of our journey was an hour long ferry abound the Equinox, there was no other way to get there.

For much of its history after the arrival of Europeans, Hurricane was a granite quarry, at times with a population of 1500 people.  There was even a church and school.  Prior to 1870, the Penobscot people were frequent visitors to Hurricane, leaving behind middens (discarded shell piles) indicating that people had been coming to the island for thousands of years.  We also got a view of the scallop farming facilities, the foundations of the wet lab being built, and the ice pond.

Dinner that night was amazing, finished off with fresh scallops that were amazing!  We also got to meet people from all over the world, part of a group from United People Global, who were there to study sustainability projects to take back to their home countries.  Before being taken to Sunset Rock, we got to meet Odin, the chef’s cat.  He apparently had found his way to Jaden’s bunk.  Hurricane is one of the few places where you can see the sunrise AND the sunset over the water.  A truly beautiful site.