Here I am at the keyboard while overlooking Lubec Channel from a rented cabin at West Quoddy Station, a former U.S. Coast Guard lifesaving post. We needed to vacate our home for two days during its renovation, and we settled on this, still in sight of Eastport on the water to the north and yet a world away.
Category: Coastal Exposure
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As seen from a cruise aboard the historic schooner Louis R. French on Penobscot Bay last summer.
For more schooner sailing experiences, take a look at my Under Sail photo album at Thistle Finch editions.
Only eight miles away from us, by water
St. Andrews, New Brunswick, is an hour-and-a-half drive from our home, but it does strike us as a Providence, Cape Cod, kind of place in a somewhat more respectable vein. Get away from the tourist strip downtown and you’ll find this at low tide.
The land beyond is Maine, USA.
The helm
It’s rather modest, actually, but so classy all the same, befitting the schooner Louis R. French. It was at the top of the ladder from my quarters below.
For more schooner sailing experiences, take a look at my Under Sail photo album at Thistle Finch editions.
Easternmost lighthouse
The distinctive peppermint-stick tower of the West Quoddy lighthouse is viewed from the tip of Roosevelt-Campobello International Park in New Brunswick, Canada. You’re looking at the easternmost point in the continental United States.
For more lighthouse images, take a look at my Beacons Above the Water photo album at Thistle Finch editions.
A feel for the water and wind
On cruises aboard the historic schooner Louis R. French, passengers get opportunities to pitch in with the work. We help raise the anchor and the sails in the morning and we wash our own dishes. Sometimes, when the water’s calm, we even get a spell at the wheel, where you do get a feel for the interaction of the wind and water as well as the delay in the boat’s response to a change in the course. Here I am at the end of last summer.
For poems related to the sea, check out my collection Ocean Motion at Smashwords.com.
View from above Shackford Cove
This site in Eastport is where several historic child-labor photos were taken. These days it’s a popular place for deer.
Gulls on the rocks
They face the wind.
Eastport, Maine.
Camden Harbor and skyline at night
Compared to where I’m living, this is Bright Lights, Big City.
It was seen from the historic schooner Louis R. French before we set sail the next morning late last summer.
Holding up over time
The legs of the former American Can Company factory on the Eastport waterfront are revealed at low tide if you’re out on the water. To see what’s behind them, go to my photo album, Can Factory Caverns, at Thistle Finch editions.
Jnana's Red Barn 