Hi John.

Last week me and my parents were on Mt. Desert in Maine. We took a ferry over to Little Cranberry Island or also known as Ilesford. It’s a very very tiny island but people still live there. There is one maine road. None of them have lines on them so everyone there just drives golfcarts and 4wheelers around. Everyone there seemed to be like family. I thought it was pretty cool how everyone knew each other. Well, we went there looking for a beach but we found that most of the beaches there are made up of all quarter sized rocks and bigger. It was quite interesting. We brought a Sam stone along with us. I had planned to put it in the little cottage that we were renting but then while on this island I found a shrine like thing that someone had put together. It was made of drift wood, rocks, rope, lobster bouyes, and other sorts of things that were found on the “beach.” Something in me just felt that this was the perfect place to put Sam. So I placed it in the center of the shrine like place. I really don’t know what to call it but it was pretty cool. I wrote SAM in rocks and put some wild rose flowers next to it. My dad was fly fishing and one of the hooks broke so I put his saltwater fly next to the stone.






I almost couldn’t stop taking pictures of it. There was a small pond on one side of it and on the other side was the ocean after you climbed over piles of rocks. It was beautiful in an odd way.

Ivy