Just a block from our house. We do love walking strolling around the island.
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We do have some striking place names around the Bold Coast
If you haven’t noticed, I can be entranced by place names. So for ten around here, let’s go.
- Bailey’s Mistake. Did they really land and then settle in the wrong spot?
- Boot Head. Try picturing that.
- Cutler. It even has a song about drilling into the bottom of barrels of wine confiscated during the Prohibition. And there’s a plank of wood as evidence.
- Destiny Bay. Also at Cutler, but what a name.
- Machias. Even as something-or-other disgusting kind of falls in the Native name.
- Magurrewock Mountain in the Moosehorn National Wildlife Preserve. At a modest 377-elevation, it still deserves attention, even if you can’t pronounce it.
- Meddybemps. It’s a town and a huge lake, but still, try repeating it three times.
- Moosehorn National Wildlife Preservation. Moose don’t have horns but antlers, despite the naming of a small river.
- Pope’s Folly. The small island just off the Old Friar monolith of Campobello Island, New Brunswick, seems to elude historic explanation. I’m not convinced it’s entirely religious.
- Treat Island. Named for an early settler, no matter the consequences, it’s still part of Eastport. And a fine IPA brew exists in its honor.
Telltale blow
Yes, thar it is, as seen from an Eastport Windjammers whale watch in nearby Canadian waters.
For more whale watching experiences, take a look at my Lolling with Whales photo album at Thistle Finch editions.
Dinghy ready and at rest
I would have called it a lifeboat, but it does get used for excursions to shore during a typical cruise aboard the schooner Louis R. French.
For more schooner sailing experiences, take a look at my Under Sail photo album at Thistle Finch editions.
There’s more than shells to collect on the beach
And there’s more than sea glass, too.
Sometimes it’s fun to play with what you tote home, creating whimsical designs like the ones you’ll find in the Shore Things free photo album at my Thistle Finch blog.
Cruise ship tender heads for the shore
Many cruise ships to Rockland, Maine, are too big for the harbor itself. Instead, they drop anchor just beyond and ferry their passengers to the town.
This is how it looked from the historic schooner Louis R. French last summer.
For more schooner experiences, take a look at my Under Sail photo album at Thistle Finch editions.
My ‘hood
Where did everyone go?
Just down the road from the birthplace of the U.S. Navy, the decommissioned Bucks Harbor Naval Radar station has an otherworldly presence, as if everyone had been taken away to another planet in the middle of the night.
Cool Beans in a crowded harbor
Pleasure boats are everywhere in Camden Harbor at the height of summer. It’s iconic Maine, after all. This detail was noted aboard the historic schooner Louis R. French last summer as we set out for five days of prime sailing.
For more schooner sailing experiences, take a look at my Under Sail photo album at Thistle Finch editions.
What a Treat to explore
Officially, Treat Island is part of the city of Eastport, Maine, and once had its own thriving fishing village, school, and post office.
Today, though, nobody lives there. Instead, it’s one of the many preservations of the state’s coastline now held by the Maine Coastal Heritage Trust.
At low tide, it’s connected by a rocky breakwater to Dudley Island, which is officially in the town of Lubec.
The only way to get there, do note, is by water.
To take a quick tour upon landing, including its 7,000 feet of shoreline at the mouth of Cobscook Bay, check out the free photo album at my Thistle Finch blog.
Jnana's Red Barn 