However, it is a much smaller visitor to these shores that we are interested in this month.
I had plenty of small visitors and was told many stories.
A small visitors' centre provides information on the history and wildlife of the area.
The outside of a small visitors' center at the tower's base is scarred with graffiti.
That building, designed by Snohetta, has since been transformed into a much smaller visitors' orientation and education center.
Free maps are available from the park ranger at the entrance, where there is a small visitors' center with displays about marine ecology.
The small official visitors' center is worth a stop, too.
A guard, he said, even allowed him to squeeze through a small visitor's window to hug his son.
But yesterday, between photographs with visitors big and small, his sparkling eyes turned icy when he was asked about the coming Bush presidency.
One of them, a small, slow-flowing j*Team, had two small visitors on its bank that afternoon.