June 14, 2010

Boothbay Harbor, Maine

From Martha’s Vineyard Island, we decided to not to go to Nantucket Island because it was out of the way and we wanted to spend more time in Maine.  So we headed northwest through the Cape Code Canal which was a 1 ½ hour motor to travel through it.   

This brought us out into Cape Cod Bay.  From there we motored through the night and entered Booth Bay, Maine in the morning.   

Maine has many fiords left from glaciers that are now beautiful shores of granite.  And it has a lot of fog.  Even with radar, smaller boats would just pop out of the fog.  Fortunately it cleared as we neared land and Boothbay Harbor.

Boothbay Harbor, ME is a quaint fishing village that tourists love to visit in the summer.  A very small village with curving streets, shops and art galleries, plenty of fishing boats, about 800 lobster trap buoy markers, and restaurants that serve fresh fish and of course, lobster.  

The tides are more substantial here going from 8.6 feet to 10.6 feet, and the temperatures have been around 75 during the day and about 52 at night.   

Large, clumsy mosquitoes come out on the warmer nights.  After Booth Bay Harbor, we headed North to explore more inlets.