Ben Ellison

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.

Adventures - Gizmo - Bunkers Wharf

jamie — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:05:46 -0400

Bunker's Wharf. Photograph by Ben Ellison

If Bunker’s Wharf (1) was merely a classic paper-plates-and-cole-slaw lobster wharf, it would still be worth a visit.

Adventures - Gizmo - Brooklin

jamie — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:55:13 -0400

Photography by Ben Ellison

Ah, Brooklin. This peaceful, if boat mad, penisula is fabulously far from Route 1, yet perfectly perched along Eggemoggin Reach, which is the route 1 of Downeast cruising. However, it's not easy for boaters reaching by in a summer sou'wester, or even dallying at one of the many anchorages, to fully understand and access the town's terrestrial treasures. There are, after all, only three dinghy docks, all private, and it's a hike from each to the hamlet's heart.

Adventures - Gizmo - Malaga Island

jamie — Fri, 18 May 2007 13:01:11 -0400

The usual mix on Malaga: lobstermen, visitors, and, out of camera view, archaeologists.

Adventures - Gizmo - Bucksport

jamie — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 21:29:43 -0500