Marshall Point Light and the elevated walkway leading to it, in Port Clyde, about twenty miles southwest of Rockland.  This lighthouse marks the eastern edge of the entrance to Muscongus Bay; Pemaquid Point Light, on the previous page, is on the bay entrance’s west side.

Marshall Point Light and the lighthouse keeper’s house.  Originally built in 1832, it was rebuilt and expanded to its current state 25 years later.

The keeper’s house at Marshall Point Light now serves as a museum.  Inside is this collection of old lobster buoys, along with a guide matching buoy colors with the fishermen who own the lobster traps tied to those buoys.

Marshall Point Light.

The Owl’s Head Post Office, intriguing for its simplicity.

Owl’s Head Light (also called Owls Head Light, without the apostrophe), constructed in 1825.  On the other side of the lighthouse is a hundred-foot cliff down to the waters of the Rockland harbor.

Entrance to the Maine Lobster Festival, at Harbor Park in Rockland, with the Rockland harbor and Penobscot Bay in the distance.  The annual festival is now nearing its sixtieth year.

Arcades and food vendors at the Maine Lobster Festival.

Volunteers prepare lobsters at the food tent entrance as fast as they can for the patrons in line.  The lobster lunch is a popular highlight at the Maine Lobster Festival, and is worth the hour-long wait.  The volunteers steamed and prepared over 25,000 pounds of lobster for this year’s festival.

Patrons consume some of those pounds in the food tent at the festival.

If the lobster isn't filling enough, desserts are readily available.

There’s more to the Maine Lobster Festival than just food.  Music groups play throughout the afternoons and evenings.  Local artists create, display, and sell their wares as shown here.  Photography and cooking contests are held on the festival grounds, and a parade and a ten-kilometer race are held on the streets of Rockland.  There’s even a Sea Goddess coronation.

For those not up to the high-level contests and races, the festival offers lighter competition in the form of carnival-style games.

A game and its prizes at the Maine Lobster Festival.

A Ferris wheel, one of a number of amusement rides at the festival, takes on passengers.

Current and past posters advertising the Maine Lobster Festival.  The five-day festival is held every year over the first weekend in August.