Penobscot Bay & Mt. Desert Island

Buck Island. Early Morning Reflections.


Buck Harbor. A village residence.


Blue Hill Lighthouse.


Blue Hill. Tides are 11 feet here. The town dock is only reachable from the water for a couple of hours either side of high tide.


Blue Hill Waterfront home early morning.


Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse.


A Fairway Buoy. Most navigation marks have a distinctive bell or sound activated by wave motion for recognition in fog. As the buoy rocks in the waves the hanging hammers strike the bell.


Southwest Harbor.


Fog in Southwest Harbor.


Making a long distance phone call on a foggy day. It’s amazing how exposed most of the public phone boxes are when you consider how cold the winters are up here.


Maine License Plate.


Lobster Wharf in SW Harbor. Live lobsters are often stored in floating crates before going to market.


Maine lobstermen often take their families out on weekends.


Bar Harbor Lobster Restaurant.


Southwest Harbor. Great shame this house was not for sale!


Southwest Harbor. A novel restaurant balcony.


Free transport thanks to LL Bean. These buses run throughout Arcadia National Park and are fueled by propane.


Swans Island.


Swans Island Inlet.


Stonington Town Dock Sign. Figure this one out?


Stonington Waterfront. Fishing gear is everywhere in a typical lobstering community.


. Stonington Ship House. This house was built 115 years ago and is reputed to be stunning on the inside.

Booth Harbor, Camden & Rockland, Maine

Floating Lobster Dock, Porpoise Cove, Maine.

Booth Harbor, ME.

Booth Harbor, ME. Many of the larger old homes have been turned into B&B’s.

Schooner and lobster pot markers.

Camden, Maine. David taking a rest 3/4 of the way up the mile path on Mt. Battie to see the views over Camden and many outlying islands.

Camden Harbor, ME.

Camden, ME. Most of the churches in this area have very tall steeples similar to this one.

















Camden, ME. Maine is no exception to the beautiful flower filled gardens we have seen so far on our travels in the USA. Note the Granite fence pillars. Some of the streets are even lined with granite curbs.

Camden, ME. Sunrise.

Camden Library, ME.

Camden Me. Tabor Boy. This schooner is a training ship. Note the crewman outside the bow cleaning the anchor chain while the other children watch. The bottom here is often thick mud and the anchor chain requires cleaning on retrieval.

Tabor Boy raising her sails and heading toward the marked channel.

Rockland Lighthouse, ME.

Maine Lobster Festival. 100 lb. Lobster cooker at the 59th Maine Lobster Festival. Rockland.

Cooked Lobster, Maine Lobster Festival.

Lobster Lunch, Maine Lobster Festival.

Deborah about to crack the lobster.

Lobster Crate Race. Crates are strung across the water and competitors see how many times they can cross the crates before they fall in.

Fuel Tank, Rockland, ME. This town hosts the annual Lobster Festival of Maine.

Massachusetts and New Hampshire

Marion, Mass.

Marion, Mass.

Onset, Mass., The Beachfront on a foggy day.

Onset, Mass. Memorial seats along the waterfront.

Flowers in Onset, Mass. The gardens abound with color.

Onset, Mass. These folks are having breakfast at the local diner. Very American and very tasty breakfasts with lots of choice. Eggs, omelets, hashbrown potatoes, pancakes, French toast, sausage, bacon, and more. Endless coffee and great value.

Onset, Mass. Fuel Dock. Dinghy's are not usually allowed to stay on this dock more than 15 minutes without paying $1 per foot for day use. As we were visiting from Australia, we were shown some 'American Hospitality' and were allowed to stay as long as we needed while we explored the town.

Cape Cod Canal, Mass. Many of the rail bridges either raise, as in the bridge in foreground, or open, turning sideways or lifting on one end. With our 70’ mast height, we carefully monitor all bridge heights.

The Mayflower, Plymouth, Mass. This replica ship gives visitors an idea of the hardship the 120 pilgrims endured to reach the American Colonies.

Plymouth Rock, Plymouth, Mass. This rock supposedly is the one the pilgrims first set foot on in 1620.

Plymouth, Mass. After a day of cloud and rain, at sunset the houses on this peninsula were bathed in yellow light.

Breakwater & Lighthouse, Gloucester, Mass.

Gloucester, Mass. These are just a few of the many fishing boats in Gloucester Harbor. This is the port in which the lost fishing longliner was based in the movie and book, ‘The Perfect Storm’.

Gloucester, Mass. The first artist colony in the USA originated here. Artists and galleries still abound as seen here a in picturesque setting.

Gloucester, Mass. Cormorants fish in the local waters. We often have to look hard to decide if the spot in the distance is a lobster pot marker or a bird.

Gloucester, Mass. At around 4am, we heard a horn blasting. This usually means there is a boat dragging and another yacht is trying to alert those boats in the path of collision. In this case a power boat had broken it’s mooring line and was drifting through the anchorage. David managed to snag the line as it bounced off our anchor chain. In the morning we called the Harbor Master to retrieve our catch. With tongue in cheek, we asked for salvage rights as this boat looked in good condition and had a huge motor, but he just laughed and took the boat away.

Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Lobster pots stacked on the dock. Each commercial lobsterman has a minimum of 880 pots. Navigating the waters demands constant attention, even in the marked channels where they are not supposed to put pots, but often do.

Portsmouth, NH. Saltbox House. This is the name for early houses built with no nails and the outer walls leaning inward for support. They are traditionally painted this red-brown color.

Portsmouth, NH. Homes along the wetlands.