Month: September 2024

Today was our last morning on the island. We spent the last week enjoying the relative solitude brought about by the post labor day storm, completing last minute projects and cleaning the buildings for the interim keepers.

We are spending the next few days at home in southern Maine before traveling out west for Maureen’s race. She will fly to Utah and begin running, I will drive with the dogs and hopefully meet her at the finish line in Grand Escalante National Monument. Post race we will caravan to our off grid cabin in Wonder Valley, CA.

Our experience on the island has been nothing short of magical. If there is anything I can say in leaving it is this… It is my sincere hope that someday you visit Seguin. I hope you feel the exhilaration of leaving the shore behind, and the sense of wonder upon arriving at the buildings nestled into the cove. I hope you hike each and every trail, and spend a while watching the waves break on the cliffs. I hope you climb the staircase to the top of the lighthouse and let the rainbows from the lens fall across your face. And mostly, I hope you grab fistfuls of sweet fern and inhale deeply, so that the scent of Maine travels with you for the rest of your days.

Thank you

Maureen and Matt
2024 Seguin Keepers

We were up relatively early this morning, so we took an hour to go check on the North Trail and take some time to ourselves before our midday visitors started to arrive. We had been very cautious about exploring some areas of the North Trail all summer because so many birds use the cliffs as their nesting places. Now that the birds have moved on, we decided to venture out and find the spur trails to the cliffs. It wasn’t long before we stumbled up on the geodesic marker that was placed near the northern cliffs in 1957. We also took some time to go off the beaten path and do some scrambling between rocks to get some really spectacular views of the cliffs and surf.

We arrived back to the lighthouse around 11am and were met by a steady stream of visitors that lasted late into the afternoon. The summer is now at its “official” end for New England, so we are expecting our daily visitor count to dwindle a bit as we move steadily toward fall and the end of our time on the island.

We’re glad we were able to be a special part of over 1,200 visitors’ summer out here on Seguin!

Daily Weather Report
Temperature: 74.1F / 60.6F
Sunny and breezy
Wind: 9.6mph NNE / Gusts 18.6mph NNE
High Tide: 11:24am / 11:33pm
Low Tide: 5:17am / 5:24pm