Category: Maine Lighthouses

Lighthouses In Maine, Do You Collect Them?
Lighthouses In Maine, Do you collect them?

There are 65 Maine lighthouses. Some are low hanging easy fruit, rich eye candy to simple drive to, snap a photo. You’re done. Or to hang around and dream about what it was like being the lighthouse tender.

65 Lighthouses In Maine, Have You Started Your Collection Yet? Prospect Harbor One Venue To Visit With The Camera.

But some lighthouses in Maine are not so easy to access.

You need to take the waterway highway to get out to them. Or the lighthouses is hiding on the seaward side of a Maine harbor island that you don’t access easily.

Some Maine lighthouses are notoriously difficult to photograph because of their remote locations, limited access, or their positions on isolated islands.

Maine Lighthouses, Been To Many? Not Al Need A Lobster Boat Or Sea Kayak To Experience Up Close And Personal!

Here are a few lighthouses in Maine that are considered pretty darn challenging to capture, especially riding a boat in choppy seas and bundled up to stay warm creating the photo op.
1. Matinicus Rock Light – Located 20 miles off the coast, this lighthouse is perched on a small, rocky island. It’s accessible only by boat, and weather conditions often make it challenging to approach. The remoteness and the rough waters around it make photography tricky.
2. Mount Desert Rock Light – This lighthouse sits on a small, exposed island 25 miles off the coast of Mount Desert Island. The trip is long and weather-dependent, and with few structures around, capturing it often involves difficult sea conditions.
3. Halfway Rock Light – Located between Cape Elizabeth and Small Point, this lighthouse sits on a tiny, isolated rock in the ocean. It’s difficult to reach by boat, making close-up photography hard, especially given Maine’s unpredictable waters.
4. Baker Island Light – Although part of Acadia National Park, it’s located off the coast of Mount Desert Island and is less accessible than other lighthouses in the park. The backside of the island, where the lighthouse is located, can be difficult to view up close.
5. Libby Island Light – Located off Machias Bay, this lighthouse is one of the most isolated and least accessible in Maine. It’s positioned on a rocky island with rough seas, making visits challenging even in good weather.
6. Machias Seal Island Light – This lighthouse is on a disputed island between the U.S. and Canada, which adds an extra layer of difficulty. Tours are limited, and seas are rough, making photography difficult from both land and sea.
7. Moose Peak Light – Located on Mistake Island near Jonesport, this lighthouse is remote and difficult to approach. The rocky shoreline and limited access add to the challenge of capturing a close, clear image.
If you’re up for the challenge, capturing these Maine lighthouses can offer rare and unique views that few others have documented.

Using a drone for off shore lighthouse orbits of video loops and photo stills is an option.

Lighthouses Of Maine, Lots To Collect. One Option Of Many To Do For Fun!

Battery life enters into the heading out, hightailing it back if the lighthouse is quite a distance away.

Have a sniper lens, the ones journalists use to get up close and personal in sports action or for bird watching.

Sometimes a tripod set up to keep movement to a minimum during capture helps. Whatever gets amplified the more you zoom in no matter how high quality the glass, the lens, the lighting, it helps to have a steady platform when hunting Maine lighthouses.

Some Maine lighthouses just are more popular or crowd pleasing.

Maine’s Bass Harbor Lighthouse Is One Of 65 To Explore.

Maine is known for its stunning lighthouses, and many open to visitors and steeped in rich maritime history. West Quoddy Head Light with her white and red stripes is one of the prettiest due in part to the setting. But Portland Head Light which is actually in Scarborough gets a lot of press. Took this snap of Portland Head light landing at the Jet Port.

Maine, Drop Dead Gorgeous. Low Priced Property, Lacking Crime, Crowds, Traffic. Here’s Portland Head Light.

Here are some of Maine’s most iconic lighthouses:
1. Portland Head Light – Located in Cape Elizabeth, this is one of the oldest and most photographed lighthouses in the U.S. It offers beautiful ocean views and a small museum with historical displays.
2. Bass Harbor Head Light – Situated in Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island, this lighthouse sits dramatically on a rocky cliff and is a popular spot for sunset photography.
3. Pemaquid Point Light – Located in Bristol, this lighthouse is featured on Maine’s state quarter. Its rugged surroundings and historic museum make it a beloved landmark.
4. Owls Head Light – Overlooking Penobscot Bay near Rockland, this smaller lighthouse has a unique history and breathtaking coastal scenery.
5. West Quoddy Head Light – Known for its red and white stripes, this is the easternmost lighthouse in the U.S., located in Lubec. It’s a fantastic place to see the sunrise and explore the coastal landscape.
6. Downeast Maine, Lighthouses Are In Big Supply Like Other Areas Of Vacationland.
Each of these lighthouses captures a bit of Maine’s character and its connection to the sea, making them perfect stops for those interested in history, photography, and scenic coastal views.

Burnt Island Maine Lighthouse In Boothbay Harbor Sits On 5 Acres.

Over the years I have enjoyed sampling Maine lighthouses for creating some of the posts in this blog. But you and I decide which lighthouse in Maine is the prettiest or just gets into your system after a visit and more image, maybe a video.

Weather the day you visit can add to the take away.

Just like not capturing the lighthouse at a different angle or direction from the way every other camera operator does gains new perspective.

Lighthouses In Maine, The Image Is So Different From New Angles, Different Season Visits.

Here is the list of the entire A-Z of Maine lighthouses that some of you know first hand numbered below.

Lighthouses for most of us are still collected to add to the many captured slow but sure over the years on Maine vacation.

A Mile Off The Tip Of Southport Maine Is The Cuckholds Lighthouse.

Maine is home to 65 historic lighthouses along its rugged coastline, inlets, and islands.

These iconic structures have guided mariners for centuries and continue to be cherished landmarks. Here’s a comprehensive list of Maine’s lighthouses:
1. Avery Rock Light
2. Baker Island Light
3. Bass Harbor Head Light
4. Bear Island Light
5. Blue Hill Bay Light
6. Boon Island Light
7. Browns Head Light
8. Burnt Coat Harbor Light
9. Burnt Island Light
10. Cape Elizabeth Light
11. Cape Neddick (Nubble) Light
12. Crabtree Ledge Light
13. Cuckolds Light
14. Curtis Island Light
15. Deer Island Thorofare (Mark Island) Light
16. Dice Head Light
17. Doubling Point Light
18. Doubling Point Range Lights
19. Eagle Island Light
20. Egg Rock Light
21. Fort Point Light
22. Franklin Island Light
23. Goat Island Light
24. Goose Rocks Light
25. Great Duck Island Light
26. Grindle Point Light
27. Halfway Rock Light
28. Hendricks Head Light
29. Heron Neck Light
30. Indian Island Light
31. Isle au Haut Light
32. Ladies Delight Light
33. Libby Island Light
34. Little River Light
35. Lubec Channel Light
36. Machias Seal Island Light
37. Marshall Point Light
38. Matinicus Rock Light
39. Monhegan Island Light
40. Moose Peak Light
41. Mount Desert Rock Light
42. Narraguagus (Pond Island) Light
43. Nash Island Light
44. Owls Head Light
45. Pemaquid Point Light
46. Perkins Island Light
47. Petit Manan Light
48. Pond Island Light
49. Portland Breakwater (Bug Light)
50. Portland Head Light
51. Prospect Harbor Point Light
52. Pumpkin Island Light
53. Ram Island Light
54. Ram Island Ledge Light
55. Rockland Breakwater Light
56. Saddleback Ledge Light
57. Seguin Island Light
58. Spring Point Ledge Light
59. Squirrel Point Light
60. St. Croix River Light
61. Tenants Harbor Light
62. Two Bush Island Light
63. West Quoddy Head Light
64. Whaleback Ledge Light
65. Whitehead Light
66. Whitlocks Mill Light
67. Winter Harbor Light
68. Wood Island Light
Many of these lighthouses are accessible to the public, offering tours, museums, and picturesque views.

Some are like island farm settings, others barely have the rocky ledge of land around them to walk. Some are abandoned but fun to locate and collect.

Find Yourself At The Maine Coast, Hiking To Lighthouses!

The time of year makes a big difference in how the lighthouse in Maine experience hits you.

Egg Rock Lighthouse Off Bar Harbor Maine, MDI

Winter is way different than summer where you might have to share the Maine lighthouse visit with tourists.

See The Light, Maine Is The Source.

Fall, spring, there is no bad time to visit and revisit a Maine lighthouse.

The Beauty Of Maine, From Every Angle She’s Gorgeous, Natural, Simply Stunning. Sample ME.

For detailed information on each lighthouse, including visiting hours and historical significance, you can explore resources like Maine Lights Today and Lighthouse Friends.

The properties around the lighthouse in Maine all need love and care that takes financial help. Are you a friend of any local Maine lighthouse? To preserve the history and the lighthouse access to tourists. We love our lighthouses in Maine. Some are grouped where you can collect many Maine lighthouses in a short period of time without much fanfare.

Lighthouses in Maine. How Many In Your Collection?

Thank you for stopping by and getting to the very end of another Me In Maine blog post. Appreciate your following the blog, sharing this lighthouses in Maine post and loving anything Maine.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA
November 13, 2024
Picnics in Maine

Picnics in Maine.

What do those three little words conjure up in your mind? Family time out in nature? Romance gazing into another’s eyes, munching on grapes and admiring the view? Or just to get off the highway to recover from white line fever and the “10” and “2” on the wheel. There was a time in Maine when all kinds of secondary road rest area picnic stops were available to make travel easier, less expensive.

Picnic Rest Stops Along Maine Highways. Once Small Roadside Stops, Many Tables & Grills!

Maine picnics. Picturing a weaved basket with a lid to open? Kool-ade, twisting off the thermos top to pour hot coffee. Maybe a mason jar full of ice water to fill a paper or tin cup.

Feasting on home made egg salad or tuna or ham sandwiches, deviled eggs, pickle spears during a highway travel break from behind the wheel? (Pass me another drum stick, a little more potato salad would you please?)

Sampling something home made and not off a grocery store shelf. Tastes better, saves money and the roadside picnic stop made good use of your travel time.

Squeezing Apples, Making Cider For Family Enjoyment.

Rewind to say picnic areas stops in Maine and see many outdoor roadside dining options.

Picnics in Maine pretty common place.

Some close to home on a weekend to head to a hillside or park it by a lake, pond, the ocean to take in the view. To enjoy outdoor scenic dining where the fresh air improves the taste of whatever gets fished out of the picnic basket. Why waste all this Maine four season beauty right? You get the best seat in the house so to speak.

Maine Lighthouses, Collect Your Favorite! Revisit Every Season! Bring A Picnic Lunch!

Picnic Lunch At Baxter State Park! Lots Of Outdoor Dining Options!

Maine picnic outings to save time and money along the highway traveling somewhere.

Instead of turnpike rest stops along the Interstate highway in Maine, it was canopied picnic tables along all the US highways and less traveled byway routes. Here is a list of Maine picnic area rest stops during the hay day.

The Unique State Of Maine Hand Drawn, Creatively Depicted. Like The People That Are The Fruit Of The Tree.

There is something special and memorable about open air Maine picnic dining.

Families all have a roll setting up and tearing down the impromptu roadside dining experience. Some Maine picnic areas feature fireplaces to grill up what you slide onto the paper plate.

Peaceful, Quiet, Magical Mist Enjoying Fresh Coffee Early Morning On A Maine Lake. Picnics Can Be Enjoyed Any Time, Year Round In Maine!

Wood or charcoal for the outdoor sizzle adds to the picnic experience. So does the kids checking out the babbling brook on the edge of the picnic area. Exercise, getting out of the station wagon to stretch your legs, explore, fill your lungs with fresh air.

The picnic stop really was win win to silence the meal time bell, to offer face to face conversation taking a travel stop break.

Then pack up, douse the camp fire, any garbage carried out or deposited in a secured barrel that was black bear proof.

Life Jumps Out At You Sometimes. Rural Maine Is Ready For Whatever Pops Up.

Do you picnic?

With tourist information centers dotting the state of Maine, there is still plenty of opportunity to outdoor picnic dine. Or have you fallen into the habit of looking for the knife and spoon I-95 or Maine turnpike symbol for food and fuel?

The I spy with my little eye the drive through window options and gas pit stop options.

All done NASCAR quick like a bunny in one major hurry racing from “A” to “B”?

Maine, The Way Life Should Be! Welcome To Vacationland! Common Sense Still Used In Our Daily Life. Not Outdated.

The local tourist information center had a small playground and several grills, canopied picnic tables.

Used to take the four kids and invite the grandparents to meet us for a picnic lunch or supper.

You did not have to be a road warrior only to picnic in Maine.

Picnicking was something different, a habit while the Maine weather cooperated to dine socially outdoors. Corn on the cob, baked beans, grilled hot dogs all courtesy of a Coleman gas stove set up to prepare sometimes a more elaborate meal.

Picnic spots in Maine abound.

You develop your own perfect outdoor venue for finger food, a trail side snack as you drink in the amazing views unspoiled four seasons Maine can provide if you take the time.

Outdoor Maine scenery improves the taste.

Take a break from trail or highway riding and open up the carefully prepared picnic snack or meal. Remember to not create debris or to litter. Carry in and carry out. Tread lightly.

Small Town Living In Maine. Means Trail Rides With Your Family And Friends. Picnic Lunches Along The Trail!

Picking potatoes or raking blueberries growing up taught us all how tasty fresh air dining bathed in sunshine can really be when mixed with manual labor.

Money From Working For Area Farmers. How To Make Your Own Money, Not Spend Mom And Dad’s Important Skill.

Vy Flewelling if memory serves correctly had over ten children in tow during potato harvest. Area potato farmers during the three week harvest break from the three R’s depended on area youth to pick ’em clean. The four baskets in the potato barrel needed to securely slide your numbered ticket into a tight crack on the stave’s groove.

Her lunch time break ritual was no brown bag with Vienna sausages lathered in mayonnaise, ring dings, chips and Mountain Dew.

No no, it was boiled New England dinners, like Thanksgiving holiday spreads served on the vehicle tailgate. Vy definitely knew the joy and economy of outdoor picnic style dining in the Maine potato fields and blueberry barrens.

Picking The Potatoes By Hanfuls Into A Basket To Fill The Empty Barrels. Full Potato Barrels Weight 165 Pounds Befofe Storage In Potato Bins Over The Winter.

Trail hiking, mountain climbing all offer a different form of Maine outdoor back pack picnicking.

Gorp and expanded trail side snacking is healthy and quick energy finger food.

Climbing Mt Katahdin, Baxter State Park Trails With Your Kids. Like You Did With Your Parents. Priceless.

Apples, bananas, grapes and oranges taste better outdoors in the middle of Maine’s majesty. Be considerate of the packaging and waste but there is nothing like munching on peanuts, raisins, oats, granola.

Maybe with some chocolate sneaked into the mix atop Mt Katahdin or your favorite hilltop or waterside perch.

Winter does not stop the Maine outdoor dining experience either.

Snow sledding stops at a simple woods camp where a 55 gallon drum is converted into a charcoal wood chip grilling machine is common place.

Dressed in snowsuits and removing the face shield helmet, take off the gloves. To hoist a barley pop and chit chat about the twisting woods trail ride behind and ahead of us today.

Visiting an Maine lighthouse in winter.

The photo and video array is so different yet the same from your last different calendar month visit.

Get outdoors and bring along a specially packed picnic lunch. Hike, bike, cross country or downhill ski. Take in the sights, fill up your lungs. Feel alive in Maine and figure out life’s mysteries. Those secrets are found outdoors in Maine.

What outdoor recreation event do you like to do in Maine?

Visit the woodlot, paddle across a Maine lake in a kayak? White water raft down a Maine winter? It all awaits and maybe a picnic lunch enhances and extends the fun outdoors in Maine. Picnic blog posts are nothing new on the Maine blog channel.

Fruit in season, an apple found and polished to crunch on along the Maine outdoor trail.

Wild blueberries, strawberries, raspberries. Nature has a way of providing finger food for all her creatures. I’ve seen and heard birds sampling the fermented berries and failing to miss a lake home picture window. They get stunned and then back in the air.

Note to self ” Get those bright colored plastic tape to string and protect the giddy birds around Maine lake home.

You got to eat and the time you provide to pack the picnic lunch, the folks you are with or if you just travel solo or a couple. Enjoy outdoor picnic lunch dining to stay outdoors and to enhance the experience. There is nothing like it and traditions are started.

How do you think the cowboys did it out west? Dining under the stars settled in around the camp fire leaning again horse saddles and a bed roll. Too much time inside dulls the experience. Dress accordingly but exercise and drink in all that the Maine outdoor four season lifestyle offers those wanting to partake!

Lucky to live in Maine and I bet you Me In Maine blog post readers feel exactly the same.

Off to finish banking the Maine farmhouse and wrap up the putting away outdoor items at the lake place today. But enthused today about memories of past picnic lunch travel stops and often Sunday afternoon rituals growing up in small town Maine.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

November 12, 2023
Mini Vacations In Maine | Whaleback Lighthouse Kittery ME

Mini vacations in Maine, Whaleback Lighthouse in Kittery ME.

Maine is a big state. But when you live here full time, exploring every nook and cranny happens. Return trips to parts of Maine that hit you deep inside are common.

Metal Extension Is No Longer On Whaleback Lighthouse, Kittery Maine

This blog post about a weekend getaway heading from Houlton Maine south on I-95 to visit a new granddaughter, a tad older grandson in the Boston MA area.

The travel distance, how far away in Maine is everything? This time of year it depends on the weather forecast on actual travel times for safety sake, not just the mileage.

If you have followed the Me In Maine blog, lighthouses are always a stable to cover.

The state tourism folks say there are 65 lighthouses in Maine. I always thought the number was 68 Maine lighthouses. Somehow Whaleback Lighthouse in Kittery ME escaped coverage. Once you start collecting them for photo and video capture, you realize one thing.

Some are easy peasy or very hard to access in the collection of Maine lighthouses.

Not the prettiest of lighthouses in Maine, Whaleback is made of granite blocks.

I think West Quoddy lighthouse in Lubec with the red stripes is the most attractive. Whaleback Lighthouse is at the mouth of Portsmouth Harbor. Started in 1829 and finished the next year, Whaleback Lighthouse set Uncle Sam back $21,000.

Then over two years starting in 1870, a new better built version of Whaleback lighthouse was constructed.

The Maine lighthouse had a cast iron fog signal attached seen in the black and white image. The metal addition did not improve her looks but with lighthouses in Maine, the purpose in communications is far more important than glamour.

The original lighthouse had poor construction but also is in a location hammered by the ocean waves at the mouth of Portsmouth Harbor. Probably could use a breakwater to help buffer the pressure from wind, water, ice.

Some Maine lighthouses are far far out to sea.

You need a Maine lobster boat or ferry ride to access. Or they are on an island close to the mainland parked at the harbor entrance but facing the Atlantic Ocean. From the shore these lighthouses not visible from shore. This is like the location of the lighthouse in Cutler Maine, Little River lighthouse.

Whaleback lighthouse is just off shore and Portland head light has just as convenient drive to easy access where to put your car.

Just park it and enjoy your walk around the trails. The areas of both Whaleback and Portland head light utilized as former forts to defend the Maine coastal regions from intruder attack. Used as observation points. To detect any possible hostile enemy force floating in hoping to be undetected from the seaward approach.

Whaleback lighthouse is just off shore from Fort Foster, at the mouth of the Piscataqua River.

Crossing In Or Out Of Maine. It’s Always Nice To Be Back In Maine.

Portland Headlight, which is actually in Scarborough Maine is part of Fort William.

Whaleback Lighthouse is the state’s most southern location and barely in Maine. The big iron extension of

Prettiest Maine Lighthouse? No. But The Southern Most Location In Kittery ME!

Whaleback lighthouse is gone.

The Whaleback Lighthouse Observatory needs work and is next door.

The two structures are about third of a mile average distance off shore.

Not far from where Maine and New Hampshire state line happens in the dotted line the big green bridge highway traffic crosses high overhead.

More about what it was like being a lighthouse keeper at Whaleback during storms and living in a poorly built original structure.

Can you imagine the lonely but important life signalling dangers in all kinds of Maine weather living in a lighthouse? With only ledge rocks and pounding waves rocking your small tight quarters and supplying all that ice cold sea spray.

You have to be able to entertain yourself with a good book or strive to be a writer, a painter.

To capture the experience off the coast of Maine calling a lighthouse home sweet home. The lighthouses with some patch of dirt surrounding them were often farmed.

Your own farm fresh local eggs, small animals and a modest harvest from the lighthouse garden soil.

Can you imagine life as a Maine lighthouse keeper? One lighthouse keeper I read about bought a piano for his wife’s entertainment. But only one sheet of music could defeat the purpose and cause emotions to rise in the solitude and a single tune over and over. Could too much peace and quiet most of the time challenge your sanity?

The lighthouse dweller the ultimate social distance keeper.

Whaleback Lighthouse Kittery Maine

Here is a video of Whaleback Lighthouse and the observatory next door.

The mini vacations in Maine, this one had lots of highlights tackled in a short period of time.

Seeing a new granddaughter and her brother, visiting with the parents in Boston was fun. So was spending the night in the Old Port at the Regency.

Meg and I have stayed at the Portland Harbor Hotel.

Walked the cobble stone streets to different Old Port places to eat on each visit. Last winter, on the same trek to Boston to see family, a stop in the Old Port happened.

The Sound Of Food Traffic And Vehicles On Old Port’s Cobble Stone Roadways. Hear, Feel The Rumble?

But for more Me In Maine blogging material not the same staying, eating in the Old Port section of Portland experience.

Have to keep it new and different for your folks on the other end of the blogging signal connection right?

Fresh Farm To Table Locally Sourced Meals Prepared At The Fore Street Restaurant In The Old Port, Portland Maine.

The meal Friday night on the mini-vacation in Maine instate getaway was at Fore Street Restaurant in the Old Port.

Perfect Blend Of Atmosphere, Friendly Staff And Farm & Sea Fresh Meal Ingredients At Fore Street Restaurant, Old Port Maine Place To Dine.

Old Port Maine Dining Experience At The Fore Street Restaurant.

Top Notch And Like Many Old Port Dining Option, First Class Food, Staff, Location.

After the Whaleback Lighthouse walk around the “fort”, a drive through the twisting, winding Kittery Maine roadways to catch some of the local scenery.

Kittery Maine, Can You Imagine Living In The State’s Southern Most Community Point?

Taking you along as readers, followers of Me In Maine blog posts.

Along The Coast Of Maine, Maine’s Southern Most Lighthouse Visit.

Feel so so lucky to live in Maine and to share what it is like in Vacationland. Down and back leaving Friday afternoon and returning Sunday night on this mini vacation in Maine.

Beat feeting it to avoid icy driving conditions along I-95 heading north up into Maine on the way back home.

Fort Kent Maine Is As Far North As You Can Go. On The Other End Of Maine, One Tall Wide State.

Getting another daughter all settled in for another semester at Husson College one extra to do list item on the way home.

In Bangor the freezing rain was just starting but Meg and I were able to drive out of it. Cloudy but no ice, warmer temperatures and no snow once we hit Lincoln Maine on the journey back into “Aroostook County”, the Crown of Maine.

Stay tuned. More lighthouses in Maine to explore and other popular and lesser know tourist suggestions to come.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com | MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

January 17, 2023
Trip Downeast Maine To List Saltwater Property On The Coast

Trip Downeast Maine to list saltwater property on the coast.

Maine is one big state and a very popular destination in Vacationland is any coastal region. But when you say you are going up to the Maine coast, where exactly you are referring is not so obvious. Oh sure, this Maine blog post website has one by one exposed different nooks and crannies of the popular coastal tourist haunts. But the further up into Maine you go, the more personal and special the take away experience becomes.

We all seek out our own comfortable corner of Maine.

Maine Island Jewels, Add That Ocean Frontage To The Coastline And Maine Has More Than California!

This blog post highlights a trip down to Washington County, the Bold Coast section of Downeast Maine.

If you follow our blog about Maine, you may remember one post about where exactly is Downeast Maine?

Maine has 228 miles of coastline at first glance.

But wait a minute, when you include all the islands dotting that coast and wind in and out of all those inlets and outlets, get out the pencil eraser. Check your math!

Do some more ciphering. Put some white out on that last figure and insert a much higher number.

Vacationland boasts 3,478 miles of Maine coastline. Topping California’s 3,427.

Let all those islands into the add it up tally time and whoa. More than 5,000 miles of rock bound Maine coastline. You would think that means lots of saltwater coastal properties for sale in Maine. Nope.

This week, loaded up the Jeep with 24 gauge metal real estate signs, had a property listing assignment to GPS along the Maine coast.

The Bold Coast… a little further up in the tippy top of all that water then gets much of the press ink.

Zone A in purple on the maritime map with all the Maine lobster trap markers below.

The Coastal Fishing Zones That Slice & Dice Maine’s Craggy, Rock Bound Coastline.

The real estate mission this week was listing a saltwater property listing in Maine.

The address 109 Little Machias RD, Cutler ME. The original owner bought the 2.6 acres of land with 235′ on Little Machias Bay in Washington County. Hired Katahdin Forest Products (Now renamed Katahdin Cedar Log Homes) to build a cedar log vacation home on the Maine coast. We are selling this Maine coastal property for the nephew who is moving in a new location further from great state of Maine.

Maine Oceanfront Log Home For Sale That’s Affordable!

Just a simple cathedral ceiling getaway hidden from view, with a long driveway and an open porch to use sitting and thinking. The owner a Vietnam vet that needed space, salt air and the sounds of the Maine seacoast. He built a Katahdin log home to enjoy the Maine coastal setting.

With a lot of properties, if you are lucky you can say you see the Maine ocean in a limited location on it.

Or brag to your friends that you are close to the Maine coast. But not so many Maine coastal property listings actually border the coastline. This one does and is front row, best seats in the Downeast inventory of coastal real estate. Sadly, not enough saltwater property or waterfront listings for that matter in this crazy busy Maine real estate market.

Front Row, First Class Seating On The Maine Coast. Log Vacation Home Borders Little Machias Bay Downeast Maine.

Everyone wants to own a piece of ME.

Waterfront is top on the list for today’s real estate buyer’s wish list. Especially if you are connected to high speed Internet service to stay in touch and telecommute to work remotely online. Check out this Maine coastal property just listed for sale video.

When you head to the Maine coast, it is not a simple set the cruise control and count the Interstate 95 mile markers. Then take your exit, honey your home. No no, with Maine coastal travel, there are windy roads. Twisting up and down and side to side like a snake. You pay attention. Easy to take a wrong turn. Get turned around and lose your bearings.

You see piles of lobster traps racked and stacked. Blueberry barrens, more rock outcroppings, different terrains and ocean views. Lobster boats parked on stands in yard or moored in Maine coastal harbor settings. Everything revolves around coastal life on the Maine coast.

Sunset, Dusk. The Clam Flats, The Maine Coast In Downeast ME!

Heard a fire engine while wrapping up the media collection and learned from a local the next day it was a blueberry barrens controlled fire that got out of hand.

In small areas of Maine, and most areas are rural, there is a strong connection. Not much happens that isn’t passed around quickly on the local news grapevine.

Cutler Maine named after Joseph Cutler from Newburyport MA.

Back in a time that Maine was not even a state yet and part of the Bay Colony. Before Red Sox nation spread to what now is Maine. Cutler has a little over 500 friendly souls that populate this neat sheltered area of Downeast Maine. Whats to do for fun?

Check out lighthouses like West Quoddy up in Lubec Maine.

West Quoddy Head Lighthouses, A Painted Lady That Stands Out From Maine’s 60+ Lighthouses.

Attend the yearly Pirate Invasion in Eastport Maine. Or paddle a sea kayak out to the front of Little River Island in mouth of Cutler Harbor to see another local lighthouse with the same name.

If you know someone after a Maine saltwater property listing, here is one priced to sell.

Needs a little work, but parked on the Maine coastline. Not near it, on it. Rent it out for profit when not using. The same folks rent this little rustic home away from home each year. Same spot on the calendar like clockwork. Save a few weeks and special holiday times for yourself though otherwise you miss all the Maine coastal salt air and seashore fun.

See those towers across Little Machias Bay?

What Do They Use Those Radio Towers For? Tracking And Talking To Submarines Around The World!

Those are for maintaining communications and listening in on submarine radio transmissions in Cutler Maine.

Low frequency radio broadcasts are the purpose of those Cutler Maine coastal towers.

This installment mixing business with pleasure. A quick trip to the coast to collect images, shoot some video, to go skyward with the real estate drone.

Thank you for following our Me In Maine blog post series.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

April 9, 2022
Maine Vacations | Little Time, Lots To See In Maine

Maine vacations, little time, lots to see when you live in Vacationland.

Lucky to live in Maine and whenever there are a couple days here and there, it’s time to explore. Because Maine has four seasons, the same location is so different depending on the calendar spot you visit. So mini, instate Maine stay vacation time. Taking in Maine four season beauty in bite size segments. This past weekend, decided it was time to take in a Maine Black Bear ice hockey game at the Alfond Arena in Orono.

Maine Black Bear Chilly Cheering Section In The Alfond Arena, Orono ME!

I am a college alumni of the University of Maine Orono campus.

Meg too along with most of my and her family members. The Harold Alfond Arena was just a parking lot when I joined Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity across the street on College Avenue in Orono. I was the treasurer of the fraternity house. Lived there year round working in the Bangor broadcasting market during and after college at the University of Maine at Orono.

Back in the early days around 1977 with Shawn Walsh leading the Maine Black Bear college ice hockey team, it was pretty spectacular.

Black Bears Need Polished Sheet Of Ice To Play Ice Hockey! Zambonis Remove The Carved Skate Grooves.

Seeing your Maine university college team in the frozen four for the nation year after year was awesome for U-Maine system.

“The Starting Line Ups… For The Huskies, The ME Black Bears Tonight….”

Had a little bite of Mexican food at Margarita’s in Orono ME before the Black Bear ice hockey game.

Margarita’s Mexican Restaurant In Orono, MMmmmm Tasty Meals! Pats Pizza Another Favorite Next Door.

You can’t hoot, holler on an empty stomach when you go to a University of Maine Black Bear ice hockey game at the Alfond Arena.

Pat’s Pizza’s flag ship location, the Mother of all Pat’s Pizzas is close by Margarita’s Mexican Restaurant in downtown Orono, ME in Penobscot County. After filling the pie hole at Margarita’s with “South of the Border” menu items food, we headed to the Alfond UMO ice hockey arena. Parked in the steam plant parking lot, by the river. Put on the mask, hoofed it with Meg to the hockey game between Maine Black Bears and UNH Huskies college teams.

College Hockey Games, University Of Maine Black Bear Goalie Hydrates Between Periods. Minding The Twine, Guarding The Net Is Hard Work To Deny Opposing Hockey Team Goals.

Walking home to TKE fraternity during my University years at 370 College Ave Orono ME, I remember watching the Alfond Ice Arena being built.

One board, cement pier at a time put into place. Lots of roof slopes in the design and the kind you can run hard and climb easily wearing sneakers not dress shoes. To overlook the river and reflect on the four year college education bubble experience.

Lines Coming And Going. Using The Two Bench Doors Or Usually Sliding Up And In/Out Over The Alfond Ice Arena Hockey Boards.

We had a Dan Sweeney from Buzzard’s Bay MA in our TKE fraternity house who was a Maine black bear hockey player.

Our intramural hockey games had really crazy ice times because that arena gets used round the clock. Day and night. Every season of the year. It was not uncommon to set your alarm clock, get up at 3 AM and walk over next door to the Alfond ice arena for a college recreation hockey game.

Our biggest rival was Phi Eta Kappa fraternity at UMO.

There were quite a few jocks in each fraternity that competed heavily but also made sure to be at each other’s house parties. Not sure if that qualifies as a love hate relationship or not. Let’s just call it a spirited competition and leave it at that. My Dad was in BETA fraternity at UMO.

Maine Black Bear Hockey. Got Seats Behind The Black Bear Bench, Watched The Squad Play The Second Of Two Games With UNH.

Had two boys who played Maine high school hockey and all the games with Old Town, Orono were at the Alfond arena in Orono.

And as any hockey parent knows, in high school, the sport continues year round. Summer hockey games every weekend at UMO’s Alfond Arena happened. And the parents in their shorts and short sleeves come inside out of the warm summer sun.

To watch, run the clock, announce, man the penalty box, to control the flow from the bench out onto the arena ice. To perform whatever chore at the ice arena and then in our case travel two hours back home to “The County”. All uphill heading North. Excited when you see the I-95 sign for “Benedicta ME” on the return home.

You know you are crossing the county line into Aroostook when you see Benedicta that only got one Interstate 95 exit.

A Camp Or Maine Cabin Near Baxter, Mt Katahdin. Priceless. Lots Of People Flock To The Less Traveled Vacation Options In Maine Like Baxter State Park.

Aroostook County is Maine’s largest of the sixteen.

Everyone Wants To Drive The Zamboni. UMO Black Bear Hockey Games, Fun Way To Speed Up A Maine Winter.

After the Maine Black Bear ice hockey game, Meg and I headed over to the other side of Orono. Bagging ZZZzzz’s at the Black Bear Inn right off the Stillwater Ave exit.

We got up early on Sunday to head down to Acadia National Park. Visiting Bar Harbor, Northeast Harbor, Bass Harbor lighthouse.

Every little town along the way as you drive the hilly, snaking highways that weave in and out of the coastal villages and towns. Neat coves, amazing rock formations and harbor views that excite.

Sheer, Dramatic Rock Formations Surround You Driving Around Acadia National Park Roads.

It’s all a difference experience in a Maine winter.

We’ve blogged about returning to a Maine community vacation destination but in a different season. Like this blog post on Cape Porpoise, Old Port, the Maine coast. No or very few tourists, no bumper to bumper traffic or waiting in line. The peace and quiet replace the crowds of tourist seeking to sample Maine on summer vacation.

Not as many places open during the “shoulder season” or “off season” but the local operators are more laid back, friendlier and not so busy.

Closed For The Winter Season. Take Out Lobster Pounds In Maine Are Pretty Quiet In The Winter Months. What Would You Order If This Roadside Take Out Joint Was Open?

Rates are cheaper for everything off season in a Maine winter tourist attraction except for ski and snow sledding resort areas.

Look Mom, No People. Bar Harbor In The Dead Of A Maine Winter. Quiet, No Traffic, No People. Not Having To Share The Eye Candy In Winter.

Walked around Bar Harbor, shot some blog post images.

Then traveled on to Acadia National Park. Paid the entrance fee and took in the sights on what was open around the perimeter road. Big Sand Beach, Thunder Hole, checked out Bass Harbor Headlight. Saw Egg Rock Lighthouse too and had covered that area from boat in an earlier Maine instate stay vacation.

Egg Rock Lighthouse Off Bar Harbor Maine, Mount Desert Island (MDI).

The pathways, rocks covered with new white fluffy snow and hidden ice make it be better go slow and be super careful.

Watch your step folks. Fresh air, cobalt blue skies, a few tourists dressed warmly and wearing hats, gloves. Some strap on removable ice grips. Weather in Maine, we are outdoors year round. Just dress a little different in the exercise and sight seeing when in Maine.

Rock Bound Maine Coast Line. Not A Lot Of Topsoil But Plenty Of Cadillac Mt Pink Granite. Pretty Impressive Places Hidden Here And There.

Someone put a lot of work into the trails, the preservation of the wildlife habitat, plants, trees.

The Sights, Sounds, Smells Of Being Outdoors On The Maine Coast. Priceless Experiences Outdoors Year Round In Maine.

You see families, a few with pets as you travel to the open areas of Acadia National Park on MDI in Maine in winter.

Granite, Nothing Taken For Granite At Acadia National Park’s Stone Walk Ways.

Lots more open areas in Acadia this trip compared to last year when most areas were shuttered and closed up to the public.

Always thinking of seafood with the fresh air stimulating the taste buds. After taking in all this eye candy, your hunger for local Maine seafood only increases. Sure we can get lobsters, mussels, clams and crab meat at our local Maine Piggly Wiggly groceries. Or from a pick up with a box truck cooler on back that can fish you out just about anything sea food wise.

But nothing like tapping the source and knowing what you dine on was swimming in the sea not long before the same day direct from the harbor pound.

Bass Harbor Me Lighthouse, The Skinny On This Seacoast Navigational Guide.

Today’s cell phones do a decent job taking images and capturing video loops.

But we have camera lust. Use them everyday in our job as Joe Maine Real Estate Broker. The Sony with the telephone lens cost more that two and a quarter books of green stamps. But so so worth zeroing in on the action. Whether a hockey game and up in the stands. Chasing the orange ball around the courts. Or on land, looking out at what’s parked off shore and up in or among the trees.

Bambi Crosses The Winding Coastal Road Right In Front Of Us. Quick, Pull Over, Pull Down That Rear Window. Hurry!

Another lighthouse in Maine is the rear attraction along the coast of Vacationland though.

Needing A Little Paint, The Metal Work Around The Top A Tad Rusted. Bass Harbor Headlight Shot Up From Among The Snow Covered Granite Strewn Rocks And Rubble..

Some Maine lighthouses you need a lobster boat ride or sight seeing tour to access.

Others are a sea kayak on a smooth windless day easy peasy to paddle out and back to see. Bass Harbor lighthouses in the summer when lots of other tourists had the same idea as you. It is way way easier to just park your car. Unhook the strapped on back bike to pedal in and out because parking spaces are as rare as four leaf clovers. Or live show tickets to Bob Marley, Maine’s comedian.

Bass Harbor Headlight Is Needing Some Paint, Attention.

Lots of friends of all the Maine lighthouses.

Some Maine lighthouses have associations stronger than others to preserve, promote and protect. A few lighthouses in Maine private residences now or rented out for vacations for tourists visiting the Pine Tree State. Looking for something different for a location smack dab front and center on or off the Maine coastline.

Providing Light, Sound, Navigation For Sea Captains Plying Their Boats Off The Rock Bound Coast Of Maine. Winds, Salty Sea Air And Low Winter Temperatures Are Hard On ME Lighthouses.

After spending hours around Acadia National Park, venturing over to Bass Harbor Headlight, we just continued on our way back to Bangor Maine for the night.

Decided to sample some Geaghan’s BBQ wings and lay the head in the bed Sunday night in Bangor because Monday was President’s Day, school vacation too. There are many times just too busy to sneak out of town to see some new surroundings living in Maine full time as a native, local insider.

The Harbor View In Maine Coastal Towns. No Two Village Harbors Quite The Same If You Look Close. Visit them different seasons.

Maine instate stay vacations.

Have you been to Maine and where? Is it time for a re-visit to unplug, unwind and recharge? It’s winter but that does not mean nothing is open in Maine for vacation, instate staycation options. Until next time, already have ideas what to serve up in the next few blog posts about anything Maine that’s fair game. Thank you for following our Maine blog!

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February 24, 2022
Instate Maine Vacations | Cape Porpoise, Old Port, Wells Beach ME

Instate vacations, Cape Porpoise, Old Port, Wells Beach ME.

When you are lucky enough to live in Maine full time, Vacationland is your playground. Ready to tap. Short trips, instate vacations are quick and easy when you already live in the state of Maine.

This blog post more of a photo log about a three day trip from Northern to Southern Maine and back.

Anything Maine to cover is fair game right for this blogging post channel right ?

Cape Porpoise Harbor Maine

Had a little Maine winter snow storm change the instate vacations weekend plans just a tad.

Because a foot of new fluffy white stuff arriving in the weather forecast last Friday, Meg and I decided to head out a half day earlier. This Maine snow storm started north and headed south so we got on Interstate 95 Thursday afternoon to stay ahead of it. Pushed along during daylight and just warmer temperatures, light rain happening outside the car.

Good cruising to git while the getting was optimum. We both knew the weather was influx, it was going to change. If we sat still or waited getting “out of Dodge” for harder travel conditions to change to match the current forecast. .

Thursday night staying at the Hilton Garden Inn in the Old Port where we could walk to some place new to eat.

Staying In The Old Port ME, The Hilton Garden Inn One Where To Stay Lodging Suggestion. Stayed One Trip At The Portland Harbor Hotel An Early Runaway From Home Mad Dash.

No reservations, no need for calling ahead when it’s during a snow storm or in the middle of winter during your instate Maine vacation.

The winds picking up and change over from icy drizzle to a snow crystal like sugar. You don’t have to be an Eskimo to know about the 50 kinds of snow. Living in Maine, because of her sheer size and many weather zones, you get a chance to experience it all. More than the eyeballs see what is developing. You can taste, smell, sense weather change in the Maine air any season.

Old Port ME During Ice Storm.

Back in Aroostook County, over a foot of just white, fluffy light snow landing to blanket the Earth.

While in the Old Port region of Maine, the accumulation was under four inches of a different kind of snow. Granular, more ice than light airy snow flakes. A lot like sugar, sand and hardening up like compact cement to make it harder to plow or shovel.

We ate at Scales in the Old Port.

Scales, Old Port ME Restaurant. Fresh Fish On Ice.

Maine seafood… Meg got the scallops, I worked on a pot of steamed clams.

Nothing Fresher Because Swimming In A Salt Water Holding Tank At Scales Restaurant, Old Port ME.

More whole belly fried clams after that.

When in Maine, on the coast, it’s seafood the choice of many. Because it was probably swimming in the sea earlier in the day.

Not caught, hanging around, shipped eventually to all four corners of the World.

Maine Scallops Cooked Just So At Scales, Old Port ME

The neat thing about staying in an Old Port Hotel is the car is tucked away for the night.

Steamed Maine Clams in The Iron Pot At Scales, Old Port ME

No windshield to scrape. No snow to clear off the hood, roof and everywhere else after a Maine snow storm wraps it up.

Our winter jacket hoods were up like the zippers and braced for the Nor-Eastern seacoast winds. You could see even the Portland Harbor chopping, ice chunk water and swells forming as the winds picked up.

The plan on this trip was to re-visit and old familiar haunt, Wells Beach Maine.

The Old Port region of Portland ME’s waterfront just a bonus lead in stop for Thursday night.

Winter Surfing In Cold Air, Icy Water Temps On Wells Beach ME!

The next morning, it was breakfast at the Hilton Garden Hotel lobby.

We could leave the car in the hotel parking garage until 3pm when we would be on our way to the next instate vacation stop at Well’s Beach Maine. Meg wanted to walk to Whole Foods to see her Nature’s Circle Farms produce display at that nearby location.

The yellow potatoes looked great, there were red beets there too. Whole Foods a really neat store and supportive of locally sourced farmers, fishermen, everyone in one neat display.

Check The Locally Sourced Maine Farm Produce At Whole Foods Portland ME. Yes, There’s Nature’s Circle’s Organic Vegetable Farm Brand.

Exploring the shops up and down the hillside leading toward the Old Port harbor, we wandered in and out to sample the wares.

Landing at Market Square Jewelers to check out the estate pieces. Low key, no expensive oriental runs covering the floor that you don’t want to mess up with slushy feet.

No pressure and had fun locating a few pieces to celebrate the approaching Valentine’s Day and Meg’s birthday this past weekend.

Organic ME Farm Produce, Nature’s Circle Display At Whole Foods Portland ME Store.

All that walking, and knowing how much great Maine seafood is waiting to try at new venues, we trudged back down the slippery sidewalk slowly to wander into Gilbert’s Chowder House.

The seafood chowder was loaded with lobster, clams, shrimp, scallops, haddock.

There was not much room in there for the potatoes but those and onions showed up for the lunch date too.

These instate Maine vacations mean more food, working up an appetite to sample local dining fare and no diet worries.

Night Or Day, Sunny Or Stormy. The Old Port ME Is A Neat Instate ME Vacation Retreat!

But life is short, you and I need to take a break right?

The local restaurant and hotel lodging owners in Maine during the winter months are much more laid back. Not so summer tourist season hurry scurry.

No, because the Portland area weather was becoming more difficult to drive in, Meg and I decided to saddle up, to get on the road to Well’s Beach, Maine.

Wells Beach Maine, Local Instate Vacations Are Cheaper, Less Hassle In Winter, The Off Season.

Six accidents along the road, most were single car and just off the road without damage.

We did not speed, we live in Maine and have experience on driving in snow and ice. To keep the shiny part of the vehicle on top.

Old Port ME, Gilbert’s Chowder House Worth A Stop!

Stayed at Misty Harbor, ate at Veranos in Wells Beach ME .

Loaded To The Gills With Fish Of All Kinds, All Maine. Gilberts Chowder House, Old Port ME.

We blogged about that instate Maine vacation stay last year about this time on the blog.

When you find something you like, you repeat the pleasant experience right?

Old Port ME Shops, Slippery Going To Ply The Sidewalks During A Maine Winter Storm.

Every summer, a vacation stay in Wells Beach Maine was a tradition of Meg’s family that continues.

Saturday we walked two hours down Mile RD to wander from Wells to Moody Beach, ME.

Saw some surfers braving the stiff breeze, blue skies, sunshine and low temperatures. They had a cheering audience and we snapped a few shots and video to use in future blog posts that always sample the many facets of this state called Maine.

Old Port ME, Ice In The Harbor Hunkering Down During A Maine Snowstorm Stay.

Had to hit a favorite store, Reny’s to see if anything was on the shelves for the loved ones back home.

Grandchildren are fun to shop for and give back so much enjoyment when they get a gift. We had some hours to spend before the dinner bell rang again on our coastal instate Maine vacation.

The extra half a day going in really made the time go slower, more enjoyably.

Let’s go to Cape Porpoise and see if we can snap an image of the harbor, of Goat’s Island lighthouse.

Old Port ME During A Winter Snowstorm. Pretty Nice Place To Explore, To Be Holed Up And Hunker Down!

The usual trip up Ocean Avenue in Kennbunkport, Maine part of the re-tracing familiar steps in this coastal section.

After seeing another Goat Island ME lighthouse to add to the collection, we noticed a couple going into a buoy covered hideaway.

At first glance thought the restaurant overhead was shut down for the Maine winter. Like many places that are not open or will re-open in March, it was a surprise to go into “The Ramp” part of Pier 77 located upstairs.

Cape Porpoise Harbor, The Ramp Hideaway Down Under.

Lots of New England sports memorabilia filled the pub and met a nice couple from the Boston area.

Sneaking away for a mini vacation like we were doing. We are all part of the same Red Sox Nation right? Decided the starter for tonight’s meal would be sampled here in the Cape Porpoise Harbor.

Steamed clams that never go out of style or fail to hit the spot. But this second dose of shell food was switched up to star steamed mussels instead of clams.

Old Port ME Becky’s Diner For Breakfast Sunday Morning On Way Home To “The County”.

We worked our way back to Wells to the Misty Harbor Motel.

The Verano’s meal stop for Chicken Marsala for Meg was not possible the night before due to the storm causing many places to not open for the evening.

We trudged to nearby Shop and Save to gather what we needed to dine in and the little apartment efficiency kitchen worked like a charm. While catching up on the day of winter Olympic events from the other side of the blue and green spinning marble.

Downunder In “The Ramp” Cape Porpoise ME Pub Eatery.

Hope you enjoy the images salt and peppered in this Maine blog post today.

We ate at Becky’s Diner in the Old Port on the way back up to home in Aroostook County Sunday morning.

Earlier, the Maine Diner was the breakfast venue the day before on our instate Maine vacation. Lots of snow greeted us on our return and no vacation, no matter how long, short or in between goes unpunished.

More Fuel, More Food. Part Of The Instate ME Vacation Fun At Becky’s Diner Maine Instate Getaway.

Maine instate vacations.

Always a rush trying to get away and out of town. The adjustment to get back into the routine on the return but oh so so worth it. Where are you planning to head in Maine for your instate vacation next?

Meg and I will make sure to let you in on where we head out to sample and share on this blogging channel!

Sea Legs. Fresher Fish Is Only What’s Swimming In The Sea. Maine Fish, It’s What’s For Dinner!

Hunkering down and snowed in somewhere new in Maine is an adventure.

The Winter Olympics were on and we caught the highlights between lots of meals, plenty of exercise. On our much anticipated Maine instate vacation trip down to the southern coastal regions of the state.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

February 7, 2022