Monthly Archives: August 2012

Cadillac Mountain

By B.J. | Published August 28, 2012

Cadillac Mountain is the highest point on Mt. Desert Island, with an elevation of 1,530 feet at the summit.  It has the earliest sunrise in the United States, and is within a day’s drive of 25% of the North American population. I’ll skip the tales of woe, sweat and dehydration, Read On..

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Long Island (Frenchboro Maine, not New Yawk!)

By B.J. | Published August 27, 2012

Idyllic is an overused word so I will try to avoid it.  But what a nice place. Long Island is a handful of miles South of Mt. Desert Island (pronounced Mount Dessert Island by the locals BTW).  It is a smallish island in a cluster of other islands, and the Read On..

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Holbrook Island Sanctuary

By B.J. | Published August 26, 2012

Goose Pond, which is actually salt water and has quite a tidal flow at Goose Falls Holbrook Island Sanctuary is a state park near Castine, Maine (apologies for the lack of chronological order to the posts, but some stories need to be told!) that we visited for an afternoon of Read On..

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Gettin’ Nekkid on the Hinckley Docks

By B.J. | Published August 26, 2012

On board septic waste management is just a fact of life on a boat.  Most smaller boats have what is called a “Type III Marine Sanitation Device”, or in plain English a toilet connected to a tank to hold what goes into it, with some plumbing that lets you pump Read On..

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Onwards (and back!) to Mount Desert Island

By B.J. | Published August 17, 2012

Every is very excited to head back at Mount Desert Island again.  Our trip here two years ago was fantastic and we felt that in many ways we barely scratched the surface of all there is to see and do in this area. Deciding how and when to go to Read On..

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Smith’s Cove, Castine

By B.J. | Published August 16, 2012

Grindel Point Light, Islesboro Scenic lighthouses, seals, porpoises, beautiful boats, great sailing…is this getting old yet?  Because it sure isn’t for us. The day we decided to leave Cradle Cove started out free of fog and damp and clear, a warm sunny day in the making.  Without a whisper of Read On..

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Cradle Cove, Islesboro

By B.J. | Published August 16, 2012

NEWSFLASH!  Maine…has fog.  Sometimes lots of it.  Pictures of it are, for the lack of a better description, Not Very Interesting.  Unless it is far off and doing cool things on the horizon, or rolling down upon you, which is does seem to do here. Really, there is fog coming. Read On..

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Forced March!

By B.J. | Published August 9, 2012

This is Rockland Harbor Breakwater Light. This is a chart of the harbor. Clearly pictured are Evenstar at anchor, approximately where the dinghy landing we have been using is, and the lighthouse.  The breakwater you see that the lighthouse is on is 7/8 of a mile long.  You can see Read On..

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Lobstah Fest!

By B.J. | Published August 8, 2012

Someone get me a 55 gallon drum of melted butter, please… Oh yeah, it’s the Lobster Festival! Rockland really goes all out for this one, it’s a regional festival that draws from all over the area.  You could tell by the firetrucks in the parade (clearly labelled with the town Read On..

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Boothbay to Rockland

By B.J. | Published August 7, 2012

Or “Seals and Puffins and Porpoises, Oh My!” Our last morning anchored in Linekin Bay was foggy, our first real Maine fog.  We’d had it roll in a little earlier in the week, but never when we wanted to BE somewhere. Our plan was to catch up with some family Read On..

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