Rockland, ME 22 July 2007

We arrived in Rockland yesterday around 3:00 pm after our long sojourn in Boothbay. It was a trip out on open water off the coast and then through a "short cut" called Muscle Ridge which was a mine field of lobster pot buoys for 6 miles. Coastal sailing was gloomy but once we started Muscle Ridge the weather cleared. The picture above is looking east toward Vinehaven Island from Rockland Harbor. You can see the harbor light house.






The Maine hills are appearing. Some of these top 1000 feet and will get larger when we reach Mt. Desert Island in a few days.










There were several picturesque light houses set into the hills on our journey to Rockland. This on is a Owls Head just east of Rockland.











This was at White Island as we started our run up Muscle Ridge.

We spent the day exploring the town and saw two great museums. One devoted to light houses and their history (http://www.mainelighthousemuseum.com/) and the other the Farnsworth Art Museum (http://www.farnsworthmuseum.org/) and Wyeth Center devoted to many Maine traditional and current artists. The primary focus of course was Andrew Wyeth. An incredible exhibit.

We are continuing to move east tomorrow and heading to Castine up East Penobscot Bays. We will work our way down Eggemoggin Reach north of Deer Island to Jerico and Blue Hill Bays and then to the south end of Mt Desert (pronounced Dessert) Island to a small bay called Great Harbor. We plan on visiting Somes Sound which is the only fiord on the East Coast of the United States. Our travels should being us there by this coming weekend.