Portsmouth Days 2 and 3

Sunday in Portsmouth was rainy again.  Church at a nice Episcopal Church, coffee and buns at a coffee shop, then a performance of Cabaret at the local rep theatre.  An excellent performance.  A mediocre dinner at the river House on Bow Street, then bed.  Monday dawned the same, overcast and rainy.  We had tickets for a boat trip on the Piscataqua River in Portsmouth.  The weather improved throughout the day.

Here is an interesting building on the river, the Portsmouth Naval Prison, no longer used, too expensive to renovate and too expensive to tear down.  It is on the property of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

Here is a link to info about the prison: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_Naval_Prison

Fort Constitution and the Portsmouth River Lighthouse: http://www.nhstateparks.com/fortconstitution.html

The weather was in and out blustery and sunny all morning.  This is the Whaleback Lighthouse at the mouth of the river.

http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=552

An abandoned structure on the whaleback ledge near the lighthouse.

Pulling up lobster pots in the river.

After the river trip, we started north to the Ellsworth area in the rain which started again as we left the boat.