Provides scenic coastal and wildlife tours as part of their breakfast cruise. (207) Cape Neddick Light, Boon Island Light, Goat Island Light, and Wood Island Light They also offer a unique guided walk about tour on Goat Island lighthouse and grounds, a land/sea adventure cruise, a 1-hr speedy thrill ride along 20 miles of coastline, and a 3-hour sunset whale watching cruise, among other custom cruises. They offer tours to Nubble (Cape Neddick) light, Goat Island (Cape Porpoise) light, Wood Island light, and out to Boon Island lighthouse, which is rarely visited on any other tours. Lighthouses: Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse (NH), White Island Light (NH), Whaleback Lighthouse (ME), Boon Island Lighthouse (ME), Nubble Lighthouse (ME)Ĭheck out these lighthouse and special tours on a fast, low to the water, Navy S.E.A.L Rigid Inflatable Boat (R.I.B) that glides over the water. It is the largest vessel on the seacoast and offers dinner and nightlife cruises as well. In the fall they offer a fall foliage tour that goes out to Nubble light and out to Boon Island light.
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They offer half and full day excursions out to the Isles of Shoals to explore Star Island with a nice view of White Island lighthouse nearby. Provides Portsmouth Harbor and Isles of Shoals tours in New Hampshire passing by Whaleback Lighthouse on the Maine side and Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse on the New Hampshire side while entering and leaving the harbor. There are also treacherous ledges and shoals offshore that needed lighthouses and buoys placed on due to the many shipwrecks that occurred by these formations. Lighthouses built along southern Maine's coastline helped to guide shipping traffic between Portsmouth and Portland harbors, and for the many lobstermen and fishermen earning their living coming into these coastal harbors. Contact info is provided to help you plan your special trips to Maine's shorelines. For additional convenience, you'll also find ferry info that provides access to some of the islands you will find lighthouses stationed. While some may offer specific lighthouse cruises, some will pass by lighthouses as part of charters, narrated wildlife and historic tours, while ferrying passengers, during whale watching adventures, windjamming sailing, fishing tours, and other types of excursions. Petit Manan light is still in service today.Below is a list of boat tours and cruises that offer specific lighthouse cruises along Maine's coast from the Kittery border, through Portland and Casco Bay, the Boothbay region, Rockland, Camden, midcoast maine and its many islands along Penobscot Bay, through the Acadia region, and northward to downeast Maine. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The light is a conical granite tower, standing at 119 feet tall, making this the second tallest lighthouse in Maine. Petit Manan Lighthouse was constructed in 1857.
There is also opportunity to see both Harbor and Gray Seals.
Other species you may see are Razorbills, Arctic Terns, Roseate Terns, Common Terns, Guillemots, Cormorants, Bald Eagles, Eiders, and a variety of gulls. Petit Manan is home to a variety of seabirds and water-dwelling mammals, more notably the Atlantic Puffin. This will give you a beautiful view of Petit Manan Island from ashore. After the tour, we recommend hiking the boreal forest trails of Petit Manan Wildlife Refuge. During this tour, you will also experience the breathtaking views of the Petit Manan Wildlife Refuge and Bois Bubert Island. This is a two hour tour out of Pigeon Hill Bay to the stunning Petit Manan Island. Set sail aboard the 40′ Tricia Clark, Maine’s original puffin boat.
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