Boothbay, ME 13 July 2007

Arrived at Boothbay Harbor east of Portland ME about 50 miles this morning from an overnight trip starting yesterday morning at Provincetown. What a change from southern New England. Late yesterday afternoon observed an number of pods of whales within a half mile of our boat. The waters off Boston and Maine are the summer feeding grounds for a variety of these mammals. It is quite exciting to encounter these creatures.





A light house that marks the entrance to Boothbay.














A lobseterman heading out this morning to work his traps.












A light house which was our initial contact with the Maine Coast. The nice thing about sailing here in the summer is the short nights! Evening twilight ends at around 9:30 or 10:00 p.m. and morning twilight starts at 3:30am. On clear nights like last night the sky had an incredable number of stars which you never see near metropolitian areas and made the night sail quite enjoyable.

Our plan is to lay over here for a couple of days and then head further east.