
Yes, Eastport is a working waterfront. Especially if you like lobster.
You never know what we'll churn up in cleaning a stall

Yes, Eastport is a working waterfront. Especially if you like lobster.

As seen from from our neighbor’s across the street in Eastport, Maine.


The white marker on the wings of the bird’s black summer plumage make a striking identity. It’s one of the many waterfowl species I’m being introduced to far from my native Midwest.

The 75-mile-long Machias River is Maine’s leading salmon habitat and was a major lumbering stream. There is little settlement or paved-road access upstream from here, the bridge in Whitneyville.

They still charm me.


These are at the Cobscook Friends Meetinghouse in Whiting.

We’re not overrun with them, unlike Bar Harbor and points south and west.
Here are “four for the Fourth,” a sampling from last year’s pyrotechnics display. The photos were taken from maybe 200 feet away from the firing line on the Fish Pier. It’s always a fine festive event along the waterfront.




Have a happy and safe Fourth of July.

Lubec blue-collar artist Chuck Kniffen created Rosebud, above, and Unicorn, below, from debris found along the shoreline.


At the Breakwater.