Stuart Island - Prevost Harbor June 7

We had a nice breakfast and took the dinghy over to the dock on the island. The weather was less sunny than yesterday, but at least it wasn’t raining. We hiked over to the other side of the island , which is Reid Harbor, then we hiked up to the one room schoolhouse and settlement area of Stuart Island. The people on the island are completely self- sufficient, no electricity or water, so many of them have solar, propane, wells and catch water and of course cell phones. There is only one short county road on the island that runs from the Harbors to a small light house. Alexus took a trip down memory lane when she saw the one room school house and one room library. The school was operational from the late 1800’s until a few years ago when they built a new schoolhouse. There was no school this year, but they will start up again in September 2008 when two students will be attending. The area around the school was simply beautiful, with ferns, deer, birds, and extremely peaceful. There was a honor system “Stuart Island “ Treasure chest that you could buy T-shirts, postcards and then mail them a check. It was a very different feel than the hustle and bustle of our world off this island. After our hike we were thinking it would be fun to do a weenie roast over one of the fire pits on the island, but it was a little cool and it meant going back to the boat in the dinghy loading up the food and drink, getting back in the dinghy, collecting firewood and starting a fire. We decided it would be just as nice given the weather, to do a weenie roast on our back deck and just use the barbeque, so we did.