Sweet Chariot Music Festival

jamie — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:31:16 -0400

The Mary Day at home in Camden. Photo by Jamie Bloomquist

Gunkholing with Gizmo: Goose Cove

jamie — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:34:46 -0400

It’s hard to beat the view at the new Cockatoo II restaurant, located in the former Goose Cove Lodge.

Great Schooner Race Week

jamie — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:21:25 -0400

Heritage Photo by George Kovarik

Victory Chimes Begins the Season

jamie — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:00:38 -0400

Views like this are why schooner captains and crews come back every season.
Victory Chimes, last of the three-masted schooners

Angelique, Preparing for the First Sail

jamie — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:05:48 -0400

On a great breeze, Angelique scoots across Penobscot Bay. Photo by Fred LeBlanc

Notes from Behind the Wheel - Prepping the Mary Day

jamie — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:30:43 -0400

Crew members carry the mainsail out onto the schooner's float. All photos courtesy of the Mary Day

Adventures - Gizmo - Cundy's Harbor

jamie — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:40:43 -0400

Holbrook's Wharf, saved by the Holbrook Community

Adventures - Gizmo - Port Clyde

jamie — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:12:27 -0400

The Dip Net restaurant and the General Store are the focal points of Port Clyde,

Adventures - Gizmo - Cross River

jamie — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:16:31 -0500

It looks like a river, and it feels like a river, but it’s actually a tidal basin

Adventures - Gizmo - Eastern Egg Rock

jamie — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:15:47 -0400

A puffin in flight over Eastern Egg Rock.

Eastern Egg Rock (1) sits just east of a border that splits Muscongus Bay between Lincoln and Knox counties and just south of another that further divides it between the Knox towns of Friendship and St. George. These lines are critical to the lobster catchers who work these waters, but I’ll venture that the multitudinous birds that fish off the rock don’t give a quack, a cackle, or a coo.