To what others have noted we can add:
Brimstone Island - Southeast of Vinalhaven Island. A Nature Conservancy island and a great day trip. Searsport has a wonderful museum, Jeffries Restaurant, and Hamilton Marine's original store. Bucksport to Bangor up the Penobscot River is a delightful tour. Bangor is the only place I could not anchor. The bottom is smooth rock. The anchor would not catch anywhere so we had to take a town mooring. Pulpit Harbor with its 100+ year-old Osprey nest at the entrance. Can be crowded. Vinalhaven Harbor - Lots of lobster boats with clever names and a quaint little harbor town. Harbor Gawkers Restaurant - best blueberry pie, fish chowder (and I'm sure lots more, but we never got beyond the chowder and the pie). The artist who created the Love stamp lives here. The Basin on Vinalhaven is a great dinghy tour. Huge scary underwater granite everywhere. Once you get by the strong currents at the entrance go slow and bring lunch. Tenant's Harbor - We were there in the fog and light rain. It was breathtakingly lovely. A perfect dock restaurant and many delightful people. Stonington, on the way to Southeast Harbor, has an artist colony. It is a dry town so buy your wine in the grocery store and take it to the restaurant. The active granite quarry has tours on certain days. Lobster - When a lobster boat is nearby toot your whistle and wave. When they finish working their traps they will come by. We put a $20 bill in a long handled dip net (our cat retrieval net) and they change it into lobsters. The record so far was in Portland where Parnell gave us five beauties. Jan would like to add that there are many, many places where it is just heaven to anchor and sit in the fog, soaking up the beauty of the fabulous Maine coast. Norm S/V Bandersnatch Lying Julington Creek 30 07.695N 081 38.484W _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
