As part of the Maritime Festival, we toured the Coast Guard Station located on the Lake Champlain Waterfront in Burlington Harbor. Oh, no big deal you say? Not for us. We have lived here or had a residence here for four years. Countless times we have walked the boardwalk to the fishing pier. We have seen the Coast Guard boats cruising out past the breakwater, sometimes fast (emergency) and sometimes slow (patrol/training/research). I have seen the tops of the buoys and some other equipment, but I never had a feel for what went on or what their duties were. It was a real treat to go behind the fences and barbed wire to see the boats and board them, in addition to being on a tour that explained their purpose here.