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In State Maine Mini Vacations | Maine Staycations

In state Maine mini vacations, staycations.

This instate Maine staycation blog post hits the highlights of a weekend getaway vacation to the Wells Beach, Ogunquit, Kennebunkport Maine area of Vacationland.

Freedom On A Maine Beach. Winter Helps The Pandemic Spacing On The Sand.

With COVID, social distancing is key to play it safe. Maine winter is the ideal time to visit cooled off tourist hot spots for a staycation close to home. To have plenty of elbow room, no lines, no black flies. No bumper to bumper slow moving traffic. The kind with a slew of multi colored many state vehicle license plates surrounding you.

You see the guy with the metal detector looking for some jewelry lost by a beach tourist lathering up last summer with sunscreen protection who left something behind in the sand.

No More Cramped, Stuffed Inside. Instate Maine Staycations In Winter Give Your Deals, Space, Fresh Air And Lots Of Eye Candy.

Listening for a beep on the headsets as he wands slow and methodically around the Maine beach.

The couple or single person with the dog who has the most fun. Total freedom to run full throttle without being tethered with a leash rope.

No four walls to fence you in. That’s Maine.

Come and go easy. Something cabin fever and pandemic hunkered down does not allow. The pandemic drove many inside and lots of folks are waiting for the “coast is clear” memo. Fresh air, wide open space, true Mainers are outdoors living and loving it every day. Staycations for the lucky locals are underway. No matter what the weather. Just dressing layer on or off accordingly as Maine weather temperatures rise or fall. In case your forgot, every Maine license plate reminds you where you are, Vacationland. Ready for an instate Maine staycation mini vacation?

Heading Down Mile Road To Wells Beach Maine. See The Rentals Ahead Lining The Sandy Beach?

Wells Beach Maine is a personal favorite to visit especially when the temperatures are high.

But instead of summer sand, sea breezes and blue green ocean surf, change it up with a winter visit. Same place, different season for your staycation in Maine. Shoulder seasons for Maine visits just before and right after peak tourist traffic vacations. Those are the more economical and less crowded too. Supply and demand. When motel rooms and cottage cabin rentals are plentiful, the price drops to lure in Maine instate vacationers especially. Have you taking instate staycations jaunts in Maine?

The Dog Having Even More Fun Than His Owner. Freedom. Winter Opens Up Maine Staycation Vacation Possibilities. Lower Cost Too In Shoulder And Off Season When Rates Get Shaved.

Instate Maine mini vacations are way easier when you live here.

Take off a little early on a Friday afternoon, maybe combine the weekend stay with a Monday holiday. Just a few days away from the daily grind and the change of scenery does a body and soul good. To see how the rest of Maine lives and look back at where you live from an out of town perspective.

Misty Harbor Hotel Resort Where We Instate Staycationed This Past Winter Weekend.

With no cruise ships parked off the coastal tourism dependent harbor towns, no bus loads of Canadians rolling in to shop and gamble, Maine resorts feel a tad lonely. Helping instate tourism venues and practicing safe social distancing because the vacation numbers are slashed to new record lows with continued low stay numbers. Instate Maine mini vacations, staycations are win win win from many angles.

Meg and I stayed at the Misty Harbor hotel resort.

What’s neat about the Misty Harbor hotel resort location in Wells Maine is how easy the dining is. Fewer tables, extremely well spaced dining in practice. We ate Verano’s Italian Restaurant Friday night.

One Suggestion Eating At Veranos In Wells Maine On Your Staycation.

You get to sample the local Maine coast cuisine.

That’s a big part of the pleasure of getting on the road to explore Maine as a lucky native who already lives here. Could walk to Billy’s Chowder House Saturday night. The two popular eateries in the dead old man winter have no lines, no need for meal time dinner reservations. When you live in Aroostook County, any trip out of this Crown of Maine means let’s order seafood. I had the mussels, then chopped Maine clam and noodle entree arrived. Meg the medley of fresh Mane sea scallops, shrimp, haddock marsala.

Both meals smothered in special secret sauces that just thinking about them make me almost drool on the blogging keyboard. It was Meg’s birthday present to high tail it out of Aroostook County for a few days.

Billy’s Chowder House Wells Maine. In Winter, You Are Not Dining Out On Picnic Tables Or On The 3 Season Porch.

At Billy’s Chowder House we met the brother of the current Wells Maine restaurant owner.

He told us 33 years ago his brother purchased Verano’s where we had dined Friday night. A full day of walking and gawking along the beach and coastline worked up a sufficient appetite for round two Saturday night. Billy’s Chowder House has the same owner as Veranos. From Misty Harbor, we’re talking a very short walk to and from Billy’s Chowder House. Verano’s is parked at the entrance to where we booked a neat two room apartment like suite. Shoreland zoning today would make the unique, all by itself location on the Mile Road in Wells Maine impossible for any restaurant or other business to hang a shingle here.

Lodging prices in instate Maine mini vacations go down down down in the winter and the pandemic has slowed the tourism traffic over the big green bridge.

Everything You Need For Your Home Away From Home Staycation Mini Vacation In Maine.

Meg had booked a place on Wells Beach Maine for two weeks in the end of July for this summer.

Since her family’s childhood, spending time on Wells Beach Maine is a big portion of the album of photo vacation memories. Her grandfather Curly did vacations in style and reminded everyone on them there is no clock. Time stands still and enjoy the stop the World when it’s Maine vacation time.

Heading Out On The Wells Beach Sand For Another Summer Day In The Sun.

We drove by this corner lot house location that is so handy to Wells Beach by foot where she booked a two week summer rental .

Her sister and Mom booked another Wells Beach Maine rental nearby and we checked out that location. Half the fun of vacations in Maine are planning them, looking forward to their arrival right? If you want advice for a Wells Beach Maine vacation rental, call Garnsey Brothers real estate and rentals. These guys are the best. Neat property names like Moody Madness, Pineapple Palace, Saums on Cranberry, Sea Breeze, Life’s Dream.

Me In Maine Author Andy Mooers Without The REALTOR Pin, Sports Coat And Tie.

Walking on the beach but without the crowds, with just the wind not people talking on your Maine staycation.

Face masks on and having pretty much the beach sand and surf to yourself. Meg and I walked up and down the beach, around the neighborhoods that were not clogged with people or traffic. It’s a lot like being at Disney Land or World without the people. No lines, no delays, no sweating temperature degree heat.

After spending the morning walking for hours, we had to visit Reny’s. Don’t know how they do it but bargain prices on a neat location for a wide variety of just about anything. When you have grandchildren, it seems to be a constant hunt for something to take home for a present. Bought the cutest yellow bathing suit for Penelope and checked out the wooded toys for Octavio.

Taking Something Home To Remind Of Your Fun Time Maine. Not As Many Outlets To Tap The Cash In Winter.

Saturday afternoon we looked at some Wells ME property listings for sale, avoided one open house that had three cars with Massachusett plates for safety sake.

With mobile phones and pretty easy real estate apps to one by one scope out the current Wells Beach Maine area real estate listings, you can accomplish a lot on your own. As a Maine real estate broker, it is always educational to make believe I am the buyer in a new area of Maine and try out the ease of mobile tap tap, slide and swipe.

We ended up over on Ocean Avenue in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Walkers Point Kennebunkport Maine Where The Bush Family Hangs Out When They Fly Into Vacationland.

Had to stop and walk to see the Bush family Walker Point compound one more time.

There was a breeze and the hood, hats, gloves and mittens were put to good use. There is nothing like salty sea air, cold but fresh Maine coastal oxygen to remove mental or physical cobwebs.

Hear The Surf, Feel The Breeze, Smell The Maine Salt Air. Winter Sharpens The Senses. Walking The Marginal Way Trail In Ogunquit Maine.

Big second, third and more Maine oceanfront vacation homes dark, some with windows board up tightly.

No one home in most and as a Maine real estate broker I wonder about each house’s unique history. Who built it, who owns it now and wonder hot steep the property taxes are or what it costs to heat. Those questions roll around in a person’s head as we clipped right along. Grazing on eye candy of the ocean surf sight and sound on one side, the high priced real estate on the other.

More seafood extravaganza at Billy’s Chowder House Saturday night.

Can you ever ever consume enough steamed clams, mussel or Maine lobster in one short lifetime?

Breakfast at the Maine Diner Sunday morning.

Every Maine Town Has A Diner. Maine Diner Wells Maine For Breakfast All Day Long. Excuse Me While I Eat My Spanish Omelette.

We decided let’s walk the Marginal Way in Ogunquit and I was surprised to collect another Maine lighthouse. I’ve lost count but am approaching 50 of the sixty four from past visits and photo / video collecting so far. But Lobster Lighthouse, somehow missed that one in the Maine collection. Most of Maine lighthouses are cared for and lovingly maintained with donations from non profits dedicate to keeping them up to snuff. You see stuff like this on your Maine instate mini vacation, staycation.

Not Lots Of People At Your Winter Maine Tourist Spots. Off Season, COVID Makes Folks Scarce.

If you have only taken a Maine vacation in the summer, every place you visited will hit you so so much differently if you try a winter visit.

Tourist heavy popular Maine vacation venues don’t have as many restaurants open, the go carts and gift shops are closed for the winter. No ice cream take out or mini golf competitions. But the folks who own and work at the ones open are more relaxed, less stressed or pushed. They are enjoying the lull and sane pace and miss the tourist that were not as intense this past summer season thanks to the pandemic worries and state regulations.

In winter, you feel like a local, not a visitor or tourist when you take an instate Maine mini vacation, staycation.

No Rows Of Deck Chairs, No Life Guard On Duty Or Outdoor Waiter For Drinks To Cool Off. Flower Gardens Sleeping. It’s Winter Staycation For Mainers At The Colony In Kennebunkport, ME.

When the Maine coastal natives find our we are from the northern county of Aroostook, just as many questions come flooding like the incoming tide our way.

Getting to know a big state like Maine takes a life time. These blog posts on a simple staycation visit to the Wells, Moody, Ogunquit, Kennebunkport are from the average Joe and Jane out in the puckerbrush Maine vacation audience.

Cut To The Chase, Maine Frankness Keeps It Simple And Honest To The Point.

Today, I don’t know about you but I find one of the best source of information is from someone online who is not trying to spin.

That just shares here is what Meg and I did and if you are up for it, you might want to sample the same. You over due for an instate Maine mini vacation, staycations time away? Saving time, sharing what worked for us could be fruitful for others. It is encouraging to bump into at a six feet or greater distance folks who are enthused not snarky about Maine. I am just high living in Maine, excited about how lucky I am to be here full time. So don’t keep it a secret. Just why I put time into this hunt and peck blog about what we do for fun, what it is like living here in Maine.

What’s it like living on the Canadian border up in “The County”?

Heading Up I-95 In The Move To Maine. Mt Katahdin Greets You Proudly.

And how’s the sleddin’ or ice fishing or where should we make sure to visit if we beeline up I-95 toward the New Brunswick or Quebec border?

No matter where you are from in Maine, the conversation with wherever you hail will turn up someone mutually known by both. Lots of perks being a Maine border town with Canada.

Skiing Together, All Ages In The Maine Family Can Take To The Slopes.

Instate Maine mini vacations, this blog post about the one last weekend in Wells Beach, Ogunquit, Kennebunkport Maine.

I did get a cell call from my Me In Maine webmaster who hosts this blog you are now reading. Prisca Poi had upgraded to higher speed, more bullet proof secure servers and needed my changed password. She invited us to visit her at Cape Porpoise Maine which would have been an adventure but time alone as a couple took priority.

Where are you thinking about an instate Maine mini vacation staycation ?

Bring Your Snow Sleds, Rent A Snowmobile Up In Maine. Hit The Groomed Trails Either Way!

Maybe a quick trip playing it safe away from crowds in the Millinocket Maine area?

Here’s an earlier blog post about an instate staycations, Maine mini vacation on Millinocket Lake at the New England Outdoor Center. Think winter, Maine, less people, more safety staying clear of virus with self directed, help yourself on your own mini vacations, staycations. Need an instate Maine mini vacations staycations ?

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

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February 10, 2021
Midcoast Maine Lighthouses

Midcoast Maine lighthouses.

This blog post about adding to the midcoast Maine lighthouse collection, soaking in some coastal harbor life. Have done blog posts before on Maine lighthouses. Over sixty of them to collect and add to the lighthouse photo collections like coins you fit into the currency slots in the tri-fold blue holders. With over five dozen Maine lighthouses, it may take a lifetime to hunt down and capture the all on still film or digital video.

Watch this Mid Coast Maine Harbor Lighthouse Cruise Video.

Winter Maine lighthouse photos are even more memorable when focusing and changing f-stops, exposure settings when you can see your breath.

And your fingers tingle and your perch to shoot from is icy or snow covered. No problem with black flies or mosquitoes though in the dead of Maine winter solitude. Save your sunscreen too as you zip up the parka after you tuck in the wool scarf. This blog post designed to be helpful, to give you fresh content and leave you fed with more community flavor of Maine leaving then you had entering.

The Many Islands Off Maine’s Midcoast… Like Torn Ragged Fabric That Extends Off Bony Peninsular Land Fingers.

Not many tourists around the Maine lighthouses when white stuff is in the air or piling up on the ground.

Vacations during COVID19 are way closer to home now but being in Maine never makes a person feel stuck for travel. The circles you travel are safer, smaller, closer to home during the Coronavirus pandemic. But I can not think of a better place than Maine to be with or without the COVID19 spell that has transformed life as we know it today. We adapt quicker to set backs and work arounds in Maine due to the take nothing for granted with a stay positive approach to our day to day living.

I have blogged about Maine lighthouses before several times.

Even ones across the International border into Canadian provinces. The life of someone living in a lighthouse carries a lot of mystic and sea shore history no matter where it is located on the blue and green marble. Lighthouses make you think of the keeper who tends it. But also the naval boat transportation going back and forth around it out on the open water loaded with navigation perils. The reason the lighthouse is located where it is to protect the mariner fisherman, pleasure boats and anything that floats for a boat.

The East Point Lighthouse In Prince Edward Island. One Of Many PEI Lighthouses Due To It’s Island Nature.

The lighthouse no matter where it is a personal passion and each if different for the take away experience.

Visit the same lighthouse but try not just summer and give the other seasons a chance. What a difference colorful leaves, white snow or the greenery make to the same Maine lighthouse visit.

We are lucky to live in Maine where social distancing is much easier due to our sparse population.

Less out of state or country tourists, no cruise ships of passengers crowding down the gang plank these days in the Vacationland called Maine. This past weekend Meg and I used Ocean Point Inn as the discovery point for mid coast Maine. This Me In Maine blog is a hungry child. The blog posts don’t write themselves and need new eye candy, more hunt and peck about new uncovered areas of the state. So lighthouses in Maine around the Boothbay region collected over the weekend to share with you on a blog post today. Take a gander of a few to relish and enjoy. Here is Perkins Island lighthouse located near the coastal town of Georgetown, Maine.

Perkins Island Lighthouse – Georgetown Maine. Pretty Red Lens To Warn Sailors About Rocks.

Floating By Perkins Island Lighthouse ME On The Coast Of Maine.

The Kennebec River lighthouse tour promised up to seven of Maine’s finest. East Boothbay Harbor like other small Maine harbor towns quickly adjusted in creative ways to offer safe vacation packages. Everyone wears a mask. No one is crowded in tightly. There is a common sense system in place. Besides plexiglass barriers and hand sanitizers and latex glove stations everywhere you turn, people respect your space. You do the same in return. Here are some more Maine lighthouse images.

Navigational Helpers When Everything Came In And Out Of Maine By Water.

Maine’s Pond Island Lighthouse. Helps Ship Avoid Colliding Into One Rather Large Coastal Rock.

All Different, Built Uniquely And Over Time. Maine’s Lighthouse Collection Is Impressive. This Is Cuckold’s Lighthouse.

Doubling Point Lighthouse… How Many Maine Lighthouses Have You Visited? Before I Leave Earth, Hope To Collect All Of Them. Maine Has Over Sixty Lighthouses To Sample Today!

Where we stayed in East Boothbay At The Ocean Point Inn was staffed by a dozen hard working, friendly trained professionals from Jamaican heritage.

It reminded me of a cruise ship’s International feel because folks from all parts of the World on a big boat are your vacation partners.Rain on Saturday so we zipped over to LL Bean which limited shoppers inside the mother store to just 275 people. The lady with the clicker says hold it, wait on the six foot spacing symbol until someone comes out so you can enter please.

The Famous LL Bean All Season Boot. A Big One At The Mother Store Of LL Bean In Freeport ME

Even without safety barriers, we were brought up in Maine to give other space long before COVID19 arrived.

Manners a big part of it and respect for other’s space is easier when your state’s population is sparse. Our geographic location this far north helps keep the crowds of tourist in easy does it.

With new rain coats, the under layers to brace some coastal winds, Meg and I were ready for Sunday’s cruise up the Kennebec River. The Maine coast line is like a worn out flag fabric. Broken, uneven, jagged and trailing off into the sea. We climbed aboard Cap’n Fish’s big sight seeing boat tour shortly after it floated into its berth at pier eight in Boothbay Harbor Maine. We were hunting for lighthouses, not whales this trip for a spin around the mid coast section of Maine.

All Aboard And Masked, COVID19 Spaced And Then Some. Cap’n Fish’s Coastal Lighthouse Adventures Was Fun And Fruitful. Eye Candy Collected For This Me In Maine Blog Post Edition.

The peninsular fingers or Maine land mass that jut out into the Atlantic Ocean where lighthouses live.

Each bony finger of land mass trails off from the Maine land heading toward over coastal 3000 islands. Those usually down a hill into a Maine harbor communities that are only connected by a water highway to those island jewels are vacation destinations that take eat up time. To wind and weave around twisting up and down narrow highways to access. Most not right off an Interstate 95 exit and not quick to access the further north you push up into the heartland of Maine.

On a map a tourist could think let’s hit a buffet style of several small Maine Harbor towns on each vacation trip.

Not on land you don’t behind the wheel using two, three or four wheels. The travel inland and then back out to sea a little south or north or east of where you start out takes time. Only so much daylight to waste. More precious vacation time chewed up when the weather is not just blue skies and sunshine simple. So plan that your coastal vacations in Maine will be one of many taken over your lifetime.

Some Lighthouses Are Great For Bird Nesting But Just Automated Without The History Or Charm.

To see more mid coast Maine lighthouses among the islands and along the shoreline means park your car.

Find a gang plank. Grab the pair of rails and climb aboard. Climb aboard a boat. Because accessing more than one lighthouse, seeing the sights of more than one island or harbor town in Maine can happen with ease. Your highway is marked by green, red floating buoy channel markers. Watch out for the lobster pots of many colors along the way to whatever the four color tourism brochure promises.

Vacationing along the coast of Maine.

Maine lighthouses are great bait that always catch a person’s interest. Make your target stop long enough to savor what each area offers that you don’t want to miss. And stay loose because the weather patterns in Maine are never predictable or boring. Change is a constant way of life in your Maine outdoor plans during both during work or on vacations.

What other mid coast Maine light houses did we see?

Let me show them to you, the new ones and different angles on old ones in the Maine lighthouse collection. That’s fodder for a future Maine blog post edition. Okay, you want more. Just one more Maine lighthouse. Two small twin ones. Doubling Point Lighthouse.

Take Two, Their Small Lighthouses. This Pair On The Kennebec.

Also saw a house on the coast of Maine where the Wicked Witch of the West spent her leisure time when the broom was turned off and propped in the corner.

She also was known for her coffee commercials. Margaret Hamilton AKA Elmira Gulch AKA WW of the West took her vacations in this red house with the American flag. The one flying in late afternoon we shot a picture of on the way by during our wrap up of the Maine sea cruise.

A Wicked Witch Of The West Spent Summers Here. Maine Cast A Spell On Margaret Hamilton. Who Also Pushed Maxwell Coffee Not Just Flew Blooms And Terrorized Dorothy, Her Little Dog Toto Too.

Vacations, short ones can happen when you live in Maine and are only a few hours away or closer to the peaceful places that enrich your life.

Hope the images from mid coast Maine lighthouses added to the collection and other coast captures planted into this blog post were a worthwhile experience. People are busy and something worthwhile when you take the time to stop by to read a Maine blog post is what all of us are after right? Fresh content on everything, anything Maine is the hungry beast this blog has grown to become. Thank you for following our post.

Let’s face it, there are lots of areas in Maine to love and return to through out the year.

Bath Iron Works, BIW Passed On The Kennebec River Sea Cruise Collection Lighthouse Images.

Many who make these familiar haunts in Maine a regular visit end up relocating to them full time.

Like the snow birds who flock to Florida or southern points to be free of snow shovel use, vacationers check out Maine the same way. You might discover a location in Maine that appeals to you because a friend already hangs out there. And they invited you to try it, you might like it too.

Maine’s mountain hiking and skiing or snow sledding trails are pretty vast and memorable vacation backdrops. The interior farms and lumbering enterprises are a big part of Maine’s heritage too. But coastal water where lobster hide, salty sea breezes and schooner ships gliding by Maine lighthouses are quite the memorable experience for all of us.

Thank you for sampling this part of Maine, around the Boothbay Harbor area like we did last weekend.

Lots Of Fishing, Tourist Boat Rides, Other Industry In The Maine Harbors Of Vacationland.

Hope the mid coast Maine lighthouse images, other photos from this region of Vacationland were enjoyed.

Taking them and writing about the experience sure was. The shoulder seasons are the best time to experience Maine. COVID19 just made the spacing even better for a tourist looking to avoid crowds to hog the surroundings without having to share any.

Everyone needs a vacation and putting them off too long during COVID19 makes a person edgy.

Maine has safe sensible vacation options to rest and relax but at the same time being very careful. To not spread or contract the Coronavirus to others or catch it ourselves. Thank you for staying aboard this long on our mid coast Maine lighthouse tour blog post.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

September 2, 2020
Things To Do For Fun In Maine | Find, Collect Lighthouses.

Maine is largest state of all in New England, lighthouses are not in short supply.

It is over 90 percent wooded, making it the most forested state. And more than half the population lives 25 miles or less from the ocean. So when someone mentions Maine, it is awfully easily to only think of coastal, maritime Maine. Especially if on Maine vacations you just frequent the ocean front tourist traps… er I mean attractions. So things to do for fun in Maine, lighthouses.

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

Maine has over 60 lighthouses and bet you can not just visit one, a couple. Oh no, you get the bug with sea air, the isolation, the sense of importance the navigation beam of light and loud fog horn played in early Maine development. And lots of cruise ships visit Maine so your highway to the Pine Tree State is often a GPS guided watery one. Dodging rocks and reefs and seeking another water draw to allow the big floating hotel to glide in and out without scraping the harbor town sea bottom.

A Maine lighthouse experience hits you from different angles when you make the visit other than just in the summer months. Winter settings with cobalt blue sky, crisp air and the sharp contrasts of white, gray, blue shades only. The senses get a work out and without the mix of tourists and their camera shutter’s busily capturing staged photos. Or you are doing the same snipe of the landscape, the lighthouse but don’t want to wait for folks to clear out of the camera view finder. Or hear then tee hee and exchange banter chit chat. There is no distraction when only one or two are sampling the Maine lighthouse. Ever tried one on and walked around it in amazement in the winter months?

Winter fixes everything even if the lighthouse photo session is done wearing mittens, your weather tamer coat zipped as high as it goes. A hood sealing in the ears.

To protect from the sea breeze. No bugs. No humidity. No people or sounds that are man made to irritate. But amazing photos for the help yourself that are so different than others posted in the social media streams. Because they have white new snow, exposed gray rock, dark blue water, no green vegetation in the mix. It is on vacation, in hibernation. Like most of the tourists.

Maine, Whatever Floats Your Boat.

Maine has the runner up largest collection of lighthouses.

Long coast line, like Christmas lights strings, mean you need more sea going luminaries to dot the long coastline. Or to mark island rock reef out post far from the safe harbor inlets of Maine’s many coastal towns. Maine has lots of groups that adopt the lighthouses as the Coast Guard slowly transfers ownership. A private residence where you don’t want foot traffic, public stalkers and gawkers trying to get close enough to see the lighthouse you bought at auction with the residence, companion buildings that tags along side. Thank goodness for telephoto lens but nope, not going use it or one of the two drones out of respect for the lighthouse property owner. The drones are grounded and if lost at sea would be expensive to replace.

Downeast Maine, Lighthouses Are in Big Supply Like Other Areas Of Vacationland.The oldest lighthouse in Maine is the Portland Head Light that is actually in Cape Elizabeth. It seems to me this is the one that makes the most debuts on post cards, magazine covers, blog post imagery. Others will argue that Pemaquid Point gets the mirror mirror fairest of them all pick of the pack vote. The youngest Maine lighthouse is Whitlocks Mill Light which feels more like a river lighthouse than one protecting the ocean front. It is way up in the Downeast Region just south of the town of Calais. More on the Whitlocks Mill Lighthouse.

To me West Quoddy Head Light is the prettiest.

Maybe because she is far far north and takes more effort to see. Because she is less frequented or nestled in the real Maine where the economy is often the have and have nots. And not much of a middle filling in the population that is passionate about their surroundings. But struggle to make ends meet to stay in their home town. That is taking on water and slowly sinking as new revenue sources are sought to bilge pump the loss of labor intensive jobs that have gone overseas.

Some Captain’s homes along the Maine coast have their adaptions that make them look like lighthouse wannabees. Serving the purpose to lift the spy glass, to gaze out over the water for the return of the mortgage holder or grantor deed name on the title to the Victorian residence.

Maine Home Widow Watch From A Seacoast Home Version Of A Lighthouse Observatory.

There are no lighthouses in Aroostook County. Maybe that is why the topic is so interesting to me. Because other than one or two vacations to the coast as a youngster, Maine lighthouse were not a mainstay showing up on vacations.

The smallest lighthouse is Echo Point Light. It is a six foot operating taller than it really is, an over achiever like the “spark plug” type lighthouse. It is located on Great Diamond Island and still registered by the Coast Guard.

I promise to revisit the topic of lighthouses, one of the most sought tourist activity on the long list of what to do for fun in Maine. Dining on lobster, mussels, clams or whatever deep sea delicacy with a Maine lighthouse back drop just intensifies the taste. That creates the addiction to have to have more Maine please.

Which ones have you looked up and tracked down? The visit to a Maine lighthouse like rapids have numbers of difficulty to experience. Some require sea kayaks or hitch hiking on a Maine lobster boat to sneak a peek. Like the lighthouse near Bar Harbor Maine that I floated out, visited not so long ago. Have you started your own collection of Maine lighthouses?

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

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MOOERS REALTY 69 North Street Houlton Maine 04730 USA

October 28, 2017
Kennebunkport Maine, One Of The Coastline Jewels.

Mention the word “Maine”, and here come the seacoast towns and beach regions that cause much of the audience excitement.

But ask for the show of hands to figure out the favorite section of sand or craggy rocked bound coastline of Maine and the results vary greatly. Because people are so different.

Your Maine Vacation, Does It Involve Salt Air, The Sound Of Surf And Ocean Water?

The sound of the crashing surf, the smell of salt air and visuals when you are lucky enough to be on the ocean in Maine casts it’s lifelong spell.

And wherever you begin the time spent on the Maine coast, will probably be a spot on the map to revisit often through out the course of your life time. To check in with Andre the seal. Whatever the Kodak moment attraction.

Lots of fond memories with loved ones and the Maine beaches, lighthouses, sand and rock in the back drop is the main reason why.

The friendly, down to Earth folks that live in these areas and serve the tourists well is another for the come on back any time you can.

Maine is blessed with 228 miles of the ocean frontage.

Other states along the Atlantic coast line did not far so well. New Hampshire weighs in with 13, Massachusetts that Maine broke free from in 1820 has 192 miles worth.

The Wedding Cake House In Kennebunk Maine, One Of The Most Photographed Homes.

Rhode Island treasures it’s 40 miles of coast line. Connecticut did not get any. New York promotes it’s 127, New Jersey next door pushes it’s 130 miles many ways. Delaware and Maryland are nip and tuck for waterfront bragging rights on ocean frontage with 28 and 31 respectively.

So back to Maine vacations, the where to go for a first time visit?

How much time do you have? How much do you want to spend for moolah if lodging at other than a state park or high tailing it inland to get the motel rates down to Earth?

For economical motel lodging along the Maine coast, in Kennebunport Maine you might look into Rhumb Line Resort.

If you got a big fat tax return or attended someone’s wedding, or your own, check in at The Colony in Kennebunkport Maine.

The Property Values A Tad Higher, The Tax Assessments Approaching Nose Bleed In Kennebunkport Maine.

We have blogged about destination weddings in Maine used for the nuptial knot tying.

WARNING: The more expensive the wedding spread, the less smaller or any children at all get the invitation to pull up a chair around the linen topped, crystal and silver settings for multi course meal table.

(Hope you get your “plus one wedding invitation” added rider clause box to check off. Along with the surf, turf, veggie or spam, cereal or other menu food fare selections.)

In Kennebunkport Maine Walker’s Point Compound on Ocean Avenue is a popular tourist query location that get’s “Googled” a lot.

Besides US Presidents #41 and #43, Jeb Bush is getting a new Maine home away from home of his own. Built at the Bush family compound on Walker’s Point.

You do feel the Secret Service scans, from a far pat downs as you just point the camera toward the home of two of the highest pay grades of them all in public service sector. God bless America.

Walker’s Point, The Bush Family Compound On Ocean Avenue, Kennebunkport Maine.

The lighted red, white and blue flag on the point gives you the same feeling as after someone sings that song before the “play ball” shouted.

Lots of background selfies happen with this high taxed town chunk of Maine in the back ground.

For a budget stretching place to stay at Wells Beach a few miles to the south of Kennebunkport Maine, consider tapping out the phone numbers or emailing the N’er Beach Motel for an ocean vacation fun.

Plenty of food options, a trolley like the other Maine coastal tourist traps that you want to get pulled into willingly happens in Wells, Moody Beach that is not far from Old Orchard Beach too.

One Beach Is Not Exactly Like The Next. This One In Maine In Kennebunkport At Dusk.

In Bar Harbor Maine, Robbins Motel is pretty darn affordable.

To explore Acadia National Park, see Thunder Hole, check out a couple lighthouses like Egg Light with it’s seals basking in the sun on an island, or Bass Harbor with its red lens and zip for parking.

So consider parking and biking in and out. And all along the 50 miles of Acadia carriage trails. With some very intricate granite bridges and stone work. Consider using your bike to roll on. To take the ferry from Portland to Peakes Island for bike ride. A quick easy spin with peddle power.

Like what you order off the menu at your favorite restaurant, often you know you should be adventuresome and try a new beach in Maine.

To sample another coastal Maine town and all it offers in a new and distinctive way. But it is hard when the temptation wanes and you order up the same beach in Maine to visit year after year. And each season is a variation on the same theme kinda sorta.

The Big Boats, Not Powered By Small Horsepower Motors Hanging Off The Aft Ends.

Say if you like Maine lighthouses, consider the hide and seek and joy of finding another. To add to your collection at Squirrel Point lighthouse in the Boothbay Harbor region as an example.

Maine has a lot of coast, more than most. And life is short if you plan to practice your take off, landing skills. To touch down barely and lift up quickly. To again, again. To sample the 228 miles coastline for a Maine vacation.

The coast of Maine, letting go and pulling the plug to recharge naturally, off grid. To reflect on life, the how’s it going for you weigh in to get your bearings. Find magnetic north. All that sea shore and what life is like along the coast is pretty special but only one facet of the vast Maine jewel.

The coastline gets more interesting, less commercial though while we are on the subject. As you venture north along Rt 1. Get off the Interstate 95 corridor. Check out Milbridge, Maine. Go further north to Lubec, Eastport Maine, West Quoddy Lighthouse, the local eateries.

Maine Ocean Front Small Protected Harbors. You See Lots Of Big Watercraft, Clever Boat Names. Mine Would Be “Liquid Asset”.

Hang on pirates, to go ashore at President FDR’s vacation cottage. Get your sea legs for the short boat ride to Campobello Island. To experience real, raw, all pure and natural Downeast Maine. Without the vacations in Maine four color glossy hype.

Yes, in some regions of Maine to play it up for the tourists with the “you can’t get there from here-uh Chummy” there is some commercial posturing.

To play for the cameras, an open microphone. Anyone holding a tall, top ringed reporter’s notebook. To create a few catchy soundbites, grab some free press with full color 8×10’s, lots of black ink about lob-STAH that is some kinda wicked good Bub.

Fueling Up In A Maine Harbor. Anchoring For The Night To Come Ashore. Sample Whatever The Small Maine Coastal Town Serves Up.

It’s hard tellin’ without knowing don’t ya know. Unless someone speaks up and spreads the word about Maine, the way life should be.

Have you been to Maine and to other places besides just the coast?

Consider the ski areas, the fall foliage tours inland and to see wide open farms, vast timbered northern sections of Maine. Not just the Maine beaches. The coastal tourist attractions where some have cruise ships parked out in the harbor.

Maine beaches, coastal towns for vacations. Those are only one Maine tourist trap you don’t really mind falling into and go willingly. But there is more.Maine, so much to explore, but only a short life time to do it.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

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October 2, 2016
Burnt Island Lighthouse Between Boothbay Harbor, Southport Maine Island.

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

Maine has a neat collection of lighthouses.

Some along the coastal rugged rock outcroppings. Others up inlets feeling more like parked on river settings. Than the classic, romantic solitude of the many out to sea island unique locations. I’ve had fun collecting photos, images of Maine lighthouses. The slow but steady quest to visit them all continues.

Burnt Island Lighthouse located east of Southport Island Maine, Southwest of Boothbay Harbor is surrounded by activity of boats plying by.

Sailboats, motorized vessels and paddled personal crafts buzzed around the island lighthouse and home while capturing images. And doing the research on this blog post shows like the other Maine lighthouses, all have different history, styles. Plus the Maine locations that make them stand out, shine, special.

The Burnt Island Lighthouse tower is 30 feet high.

From it emits a flashing red navigational light aid every six seconds, a fog signal blast in ten second intervals. The present Burnt Island Maine lighthouse built in 1821, a year after the Vacationland received statehood. This lighthouse was automated in 1988. Public tours and educational walks are offered summers. Here is more on the five acre Burnt Island, lighthouse spiral staircase tours.

The buldings, house and Burnt Island lighthouse restored to look like they did in the 1950’s. It is a great place for a picnic, a family outing to see the historical photos. To learn about the culture, heritage surrounding this Maine island lighthouse. The five acre island and Maine lighthouse, home, buildings owned by the Maine Department Of Marine Resources.

Maine kids tent, camp on Burnt Island as a field trip. Exploring vegetation, rock formations, and the field trip educating on more than just the Maine lighthouse folklore and history.

Get to Maine, explore our lighthouses, collect images of moose. Sample our blueberries, lobsters, Maine potatoes. Climb Mt Katahdin, ski down Sugarloaf, paddle the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. Bike up Mt Cadillac for a sunrise. Meet the people, the real flavor of Maine and our four season outdoor living simpler lifestyle. Maine is the place with the space. More of the rich things in life money can not buy. Thanks for being a faithful follower of the Me In Maine blog posts.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker
207.532.6573
info@mooersrealty.com

July 26, 2013
The Cuckolds Lighthouse Is Off The Tip Of Southport Maine.

A Mile Off The Tip Of Southport Maine Is The Cuckholds Lighthouse. Perched On A Pair Of Island Ledges.

Maine has over sixty lighthouses parked along the rock bound rugged coastline, dotting islands off harbor towns.

Providing round the clock navigational aids. Creating intense revolving and blinking lights, clanking bells, deep, low throaty fog horns. Designed to be manned to avoid marine peril during darkness, undesirable weather conditions. To help freight and passengers alike. To avoid ending up on the ocean bottom. Going into the drink, experiencing death, ruin and destruction.

This past weekend one of the Maine lighthouses to seek out, bag and tag for the full collection quest clipboard check off routine was The Cuckolds.

Located about a mile southeast of the tip of Southport Island Maine. The Cuckolds Lighthouse was established in 1892, the current structure built around 1907. Automated in 1974, this barnyard flavored looking hen house like Maine lighthouse is located at the entrance to Boothbay Harbor in Lineken Bay. It’s tower is 48 feet high.

The Cuckold’s Lighthouse emits two white light flashes every six seconds. One fog horn signal blast at the end of a fifteen seconds time out interval. On a calm sea day, paddling a sea kayak out to this unique Maine lighthouse affords some pretty neat photo angle perspectives.

Sea kayaks equipped with a keel, rudder can steer with your feet which frees up the interruption of paddle strokes to navigate.

Necky makes a neat sea kayak with a rudder. The two person Necky sea kayak can set you back $1500. And adding the rudder kit for another $250 completes the package to explore the Maine sea coast, islands. To get up close and personal with the just out of easy reach Maine lighthouses.

Some of the Maine lighthouses are simpler, less production low hanging fruit to capture, photograph. Each is unique, colorful and completely different to shoot as the seasons change too. And the experience, the take away varies too. Visit and re-acquaint with Maine lighthouses on your vacations, down time in Vacationland any of the four seasons.

The Cuckolds Maine lighthouse that reminds me of a barn, chicken coop combination is one of the last built on the coast.

The name Cuckolds, given to a pair of treacherous ledges at the Boothbay Harbor entrance, is apparently after a point of land on the Thames River in England. This location was granted to a London man as a peace offering, to smooth ruffled ego feathers after King John had an affair with his wife. Maybe The Cuckolds in Maine got their name from a transplanted Londoner is the common assumption batted around in local folklore, Maine island history.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573
info@mooersrealty.com

July 24, 2013