A total solar eclipse only happens every 100 years or so in a given location. A solar eclipse occurs when the Sun, Moon and Earth orbits align. The Moon gets caught in the middle of the three objects causing a 50 mile wide shadow traveling across on Earth.
Houlton Maine is the state’s darkest point during the next total solar eclipse this spring.
Houlton ME, Everyone’s Excited About The Total Solar Eclipse April 8, 2024!
How to get here, where to stay, places to eat and things to do while in Houlton Maine for the black out total solar eclipse experience.
On Monday, April 8, 2024, at 3:32 in the afternoon, the Houlton Maine total solar eclipse will last 3 minutes, 18 seconds.
That’s not that long really. Just about the time you spend listening to Marvin Gaye’s “Heard It Through The Grapevine”. (Gladys Knight and The Pips, not Marvin did the song originally by the way).
The view of the total solar eclipse happens west to east and in a specific location as the Earth rotates. Maine is the last of 13 states of totality the solar eclipse passes over April 8th, 2024.
I was seven, remember my school teachers telling us what an eclipse was and what causes one. My parents making sure we had welder’s dark glass on to see the partial solar eclipse on the Maine farm I grew up and still own in Houlton Maine.
Houlton Maine, The Place To Be For The Total Solar Eclipse April 8th, 2024!
The next one is aways off in 2079 with two lunar and two solar eclipses. I may sit that one out, how about you?
They are not the same, lunar and solar eclipses.
With a lunar eclipse the Earth passes between the Sun and the Moon, creating a shadow on the Moon. When the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, a shadow is cast on the Earth.
Houlton Maine, GPS coordinates 46.126, -67.84 is four leaf clover lucky to be dead center in the path of totality for the stargazing maximum effect.
Your trip to experience the total solar eclipse can expanded to take in lots of other special area events.
Learn more on what the Northern Maine community has planned for upcoming solar eclipse celestial cosmic celebration. This Me In Maine blog post gets updated as we get closer to the big event overhead in the sky.
You’re at the US / Canada border customs and immigration International crossing, just after passing the Houlton Maine I-95 exit 302 and 305 choices. Exit 302 gets you to the town of Houlton, exit 305 is the last stop at Houlton International Airport and industrial park.
Do you own a small private plane and think it would be fun to fly into Houlton Maine?
You could draw up a flight plan to KHUL for the solar eclipse in Houlton Maine. You could also fly into Presque Isle Airport and rent a car to motor around the area. Make a vacation in Northern Maine seeing the eclipse, checking out the neat communities around Houlton Maine.
If you prefer driving, after a few simple border port of entry questions, you can also continue on along the Gateway to the Atlantic Canadian provinces.
It’s more than the the solar eclipse to enjoy while visiting Northern Maine. Solar totality darkness continues over Carleton County New Brunswick. The solar eclipse 50 mile wide swatch of darkness does not have to stop at customs and immigration inspections. More on Woodstock New Brunswick Canada’s solar eclipse community page.
US Rt 1, 2, 2A also connect in Houlton Maine.
Houlton Maine, Aroostook County Town Where Totality Happens During The Solar Eclipse.
Folks in Portland, Lewiston, Augusta, Bangor and elsewhere down country in Maine will have to travel North to experience totality in this next solar eclipse. Houlton Maine is definitely at the cross roads for transportation.
Houlton Maine, Last Chance, Last Place To Experience Totality, The Total Solar Eclipse 2024! Totally Houlton Maine Totality!
Lots more dining options than local Houlton Maine restaurants, diners and cafes. Local snowmobile clubs, the farmer’s museum, civic, school and church groups all rally together to make sure no one goes hungry or unfed.
Everyone is a buzz and gearing up for the Houlton Maine Eclipse Festival fun! This solar eclipse event is truly a regional task to tackle. Many are involved in rolling out the red VIP welcome carpet to make all visitors feel right at home! All are invited to come north to experience total darkness planetary show happening April 8th, 2024 at 3:32 PM. Don’t forget your eye viewing protection or locally you can pick up what you need for the eclipse watching glasses.
There are four kinds of solar eclipses and experiencing totality is the most exciting and by far memorable.
The temperature drops, animals act differently, everything goes dark along with many stages before, during, after the total solar eclipse.
The Earth, Moon And Sun Getting Together To Create A Total Solar Eclipse In Houlton Maine.
What to expect, what exactly happens during a total solar eclipse?
Also, around Aroostook County, more about the solar eclipse here. “Over home” as we like to call the province of New Brunswick Canada and beyond, here is what is planned in Woodstock’s solar eclipse on the other side of the border. A million people are on the move to track and witness the 2024 solar eclipse.
More from a Maine television broadcasting outlet Newscenter report.
Thinking about a little vacation up in Northern Maine, a road trip to look up and see, feel the awesome power of a total solar Maine eclipse?
Here for questions, getting around Southern Aroostook County, over into Canada,eating, lodging, directions and who to contact for help! Glean all the logistics from a lifelong local native if you plan to be in Houlton Maine area for the total solar eclipse.
This section of Maine has a major pull for instate and out of state residents alike. Over the weekend, headed out Friday night from “The County” to zip to Wells Beach, Maine. Then get up early to beeline to Pease Air Force Base For an airshow.
Love To Fly And It Shows? Thunder Over New Hampshire Air Show This Past Weekend!
Have been to smaller Maine airport fly ins and posted photos, videos, details before on this Maine blog.
Fly Over, Pease Air Force Base New Hampshire B-52H Display. Part Of Food, Fun, Flight, Force At Thunder Over New Hampshire Air Show.
So back to Thunder Over New Hampshire highlights. The Saturday weather was perfect, hot and clear to see the aviation acrobats overhead. I wondered about Sunday being cloudy and cooler if that impacted the overhead oohs and ahhs.
Seeing a B-52H up close and using the 185′ wingspan as shade overhead while munching on cheeseburgers and cheese nachos. My first big airshow and everything unfolded overhead in front of us.
Air Plane Jet 5-52 Specs At Thunder Over New Hampshire Air Show.
Families with connections to the military and lots of younger cadets starting their service careers helping out running the event. It was neat to see all ages, their t-shirts to give you a hint of why they came to the air show event at Pease Air Force Base.
I wondered if the particular B-52H sitting next to the runway might have been stationed years ago at Loring Air Force Base in Limestone Maine.
The placard spelled out the B-52’s entered service of the skies around 1961 while Loring AFB was in full swing as a SAC base. Loring was 9472 acres of military secrets that closed September 1994.This B-52H pictured is stationed in Louisiana and on loan like the helicopters, other aircraft on display. Or put to the test in the air over Pease Air Force Base in New Hampshire this past weekend.
The Loring AFB closure hit the economy of Northern Maine very hard and in some respects, Aroostook County is still recovering for the population loss.
F 35 Jet Fighter Parked At Pease Air Force Base At This Past Weekend’s Air Show.
Food at Street & Company finished off the down and back weekend when lucky enough to live in Maine.
Clams, Seafood, Outdoor Dining At Street & Company, Old Port Maine.
To be able to zip to corners of Vacationland to sample other parts of Maine. Dining outside on the sidewalk and watching party goers ply up and down the narrow cobblestone side streets around the Old Port helps enhance the experience. Maine seafood is always a tasty menu selection when you are in the Old Port region of Portland ME.
Old Port Maine Dining Options, There Are Many To Consider.
Been to Maine for a quick or three day, maybe a week’s vacation?
Are you over due and looking for suggestions? Thank you for follow our Me In Maine blog posts. Trying to hit lots of areas of Maine to show you this is worth your time and consideration. Welcome to Maine. The way life should be.
Where To Dine, What Number Of Places To Hit On Your Weekend Outing In The Old Port Maine?
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All ears and here to help hunt and peck with photos and videos places in Maine to explore. Lucky to live in Maine and proud of the state where folks are friendlier, neighborly, more helpful in part due to lower population and tighter connections. Maine small towns are really like large families. Get to Maine. Feel up close and personal and where you belong up in Maine!
Grab A Partner To Canoe River Race In Maine. Kayaks, Paddle Boards Welcome Too!
Everyone wants to come to Maine for outdoor recreation fun. But how does the state of Maine revenue tax folks look at your AirBnB, Vrbo or Craigslist etc vacation rental income.? Toying with renting out your private Maine vacation property?
This blog post about owner rules and regulations renting out Maine vacation property.
Not using your Maine lake cottage or downhill ski chalet and thinking why not rent it out for a few weeks? Sure would help pay the property taxes, the cost of insurance, maintenance and mortgage payments right?
Allowing others to stay, rent your cottage in Maine?
Casual Maine vacation rentals, what’s involved tax wise ? As a property owner you are in this group if letting other Maine vacationers stay at your place for 15 days a year or less.
What To Do For Fun Up In Maine On Your Short Term Rental Vacation?
You need to register, pay into the Maine revenue service . It amounts to 9% of the combined listing rental price and the on top cleaning and any guest fees.
Short term vacation renters are under fifteen days, long stays rentals considered 28 a days a year or more.
The words “Maine” and “Vacationland” are interchangeable but the state only has a handful of cities, 450 small town communities or plantations.
The major tourist traps, er I mean venues have local requirements. The bulk of the state’s lesser known tapped into vacation hot spots do not. The rental lone arranger operator has to get a permit too for your AirBnB, Vrbo, Craiglist property listing.
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So moving on to what other tips to share in whatever length vacation rental in Maine, here are some top considerations.
Like any vacation rental property, you need money in advance to assure payment for the stay and a security deposit to cover damages. Standard cleaning fees can be added on to the vacation stay charge.
Clear as a bell, spelled out conditions of the stay help misunderstanding or legal remedies from happening.
Check out time is noon on Saturday at the Maine vacation rental property for example.
Small Town Living In Maine. Means Trail Rides With Your Family And Friends. Want To Vacation In Maine?
Much like the way a cruise ship whisks you off the floating vacation experience with steady pressure and amazing efficiency, your little one, two or more bedroom private hotel needs a procedure.
Check in time is 4PM in large bold print in several places avoids the needless calls asking when it is over and over. Also avoids chance of guests arriving and interfering with other happy camper stays or the housekeeping staff doing their tasks.
It’s like after last call and the bright lights come on and someone says “We don’t care where you go but you can’t stay here no more no more no more”. You the property rental owner want a good review to help attract more happy campers. Their friends on social media see and reach out because of what they like shared around the channels everyone haunts.
What you See On Maine Winter Recreation Trails. Wildlife, Scenery, A Bald Eagle, Moose. Like To Rent Out Your Maine Rec Camp Or Cottage Or Home?
Maine is a returnable bottle state but where does the property owner want those containers put? Bins for bottles and cans can generate funding raising help for a local Maine small town cause. Where do you want the vacationer to stash their beer suitcases, wine or pizza boxes?
Renting out your property for someone’s vacation use? Makes you nervous?
What to do for fun on vacation in Maine?
As a local insider who knows your way around the lay of the land “inn keeper”, put the suggestions in a loose leave binder. Have the tourist information brochures in a rack, local eatery lists with their menus.
River Rafting In Maine. Hang On, Paddle Hard, You Will Get Wet. Vacations In Maine Might Involve A Watery River Raft Ride.
Farmer’s markets, musical events, museums, rec trails to hike and bike, public landing waterways to access.
The what to expect for costs to activities all part of the neighborly hospitality.
Make your short term rental property user feel like they are getting more than just lodging accommodations and all the fringe benefits. Where the locals go for this and that.
The best family day trips, go here for fishing and hunting spots, pizza, burgers, steaks, seafood, dairy and pub style bar lubrications and panoramic photo moments.
Small Town Living In Maine, What’s Like? Home Made, Local Talent, Volunteers Pitching In.
For a family with kids, cottages for rent near amusement parks, go carts, carnival rides could be attractive.
But for an older couple, you want the total opposite. Who is the target audience for renting your vacation property in Maine?
Invite your lodging guests to local venues they might not be aware of that locals enjoy. Check out the three golf courses or ski areas here on the map. Help yourself to the corn hole and board games. Try your hand tossing iron trying to get ringers down at the horseshoe pits.
Personal recommendations and tourist information goes a long ways in helping your vacationer or extended stay resident feel right at home.
There’s a rope swing on this lake the kids will like.
Use the kayaks and canoe down at the shore, the gas grill on the open deck. Everyone coming to Maine wants to see a moose. Hear a lake loon or two. Where are the best odds for that near your Maine rental property location?
What a great picnic locations to enjoy the natural beauty of Maine while you munch on a chicken salad sandwich or crunch cucumbers, an hand picked wild apple or raspberries, blueberries, field strawberries? Know of any local community potluck suppers tonight?
Traveling Instate Maine To Enjoy Mini Vacations. Easy When You Already Live In Maine.
Many in the Maine tourist crowd want lobster and fresh Maine seafood.
A slice of wild Maine blueberry pie or fresh picked dish of strawberries or raspberries.
The video and media displays to share on social media promotion for your “home away from home” must have digital links.
Tap Your Toe, Sing Along. Music Made Locally And Live Is Huge In Maine Communities.
Maps to help your short term property user get out, about, there and back with ease erases worry or confusion. To anything and everything about what to do for fun on vacation up in Maine. To this particular corner of Maine.
Post the snowmobile and four wheeler ATV maps on the wall with the circled “you are here” X marks the spot.
Three reasons for the give your guests fun tip suggestions in the area around the Maine vacation property rental.
One, you are an ambassador to your state of Maine, county and local community. You are proud of your piece of ME and don’t hesitate to toot the horn on what the vacation day trip options are.
The local history of your part of Maine. Share it and help promote the pride and excitement. Immerse your traveler into everything local. You don’t get the spirit of the area staying a few days at a franchise motel by an interstate truck stop.
Anything On The Maine Waterfront Is A Popular Real Estate Search. Hot Temps Help Fuel That Market Segment. Want To Rent One?
Make the overnight, multi day experience better for your guest vacation up in Maine.
Two, while your rental vacation guests are out of the property or out on the waterfront it might be parked next to, less wear and tear happens. The neat thing about rental properties is the folks who pay for their week of heaven up in Maine are moving around sampling it.
Help them know what there are for entertainment or dining options to enhance their stay at your Maine rental property.
In small rural Maine vacation destinations, not everything appears on a glossing four color tri fold tourist brochure.
Pot Luck Suppers In Maine, Using Natural Ingredients.
The social media splash for things to do for fun in small Maine towns is what is shared online for reviews.
The images and videos tourist in Maine on vacation post get a lot of eye ball and ear drum impressions on the social media grapevines.
Help feed those channels. Local merchants, non profit museums and clubs will thanks you for the media exposure too.
Every local Mainer tries to protect their community and regional economy. Each vacation tourist dollar in Maine turns over six to seven times and helps all of the locals living here in Vacationland year round.
The Bigger The Maine Home, The Greater The Cost Heating / Cooling It!
The third reason to share the fun around your neat Maine vacation rental is for repeat visits. The online reviews, photos, video clips. The same people rent the same week at the same vacation property. Why?
Whoever stays at your place leaves wonderful reviews or never returns for one or many reasons. They had fun thanks to your neat, clean, affordable accommodations. And your helpful showing them around to assure they have a memory making experience worth repeating.
Your board games, photo albums, maps, lists of locals to call for goods and services are valuable to your out of town or state or country house guests.
Or if no advance information or help to know what to do after they arrive on vacation is provided, the property renter’s expectations were not met. No one wants a lousy review about an AirBnB or Vrbo property in an area you are proud of right?
Maine, The Way Life Should Be! Welcome To Vacationland! Common Sense Still Used In Our Daily Life. Not Outdated.
It’s the little things in your hired out personal lodging to make some extra money and provide additional area Maine rental income housing.
Get your Maine vacation renter up to speed, feeling like they know a thing or two about your area. The more they feel like they right at home and things are familiar, more higher quality relaxation happens. Hey look, a bottle of Frank’s hot sauce. Don’t have to buy salt, pepper and there’s a Keurig coffee machine.
Blueberries For Sal, Don Fendler’s Lost On Mt Kathadin, local Maine eye candy photography surf and turf books.
Splay them around the wire spool coffee table just so. Your wall art, magazines, loose leaf binders with how to have a super vacation in Maine.
How you decorate the simple or ooh la la vacation rental property in Maine considers someone brand new. Not as familiar with where everything is located around your local Maine community. Create the experience so they never forget what it was like up in Maine.
Tight Corners, Out On The Open Asphalt Go Cart Track. Welcome To Coastal Maine’s Attractions.
Give them something Maine four season outdoors or inspirational to remember their vacation.
Self help books and exercise healthier living in Maine equipment make your guest feel you do genuinely give a hoot about them. That they can help yourself because you trusted them with the key to a property you are proud to share.
Maine. Fresh air, clean water, no crowds, one of a kind all natural.
The Portland Seadogs Baseball Team Plays Home Games At Hacklock Field, Portland ME.
The vacation property can be an ideal extended stay, something besides a small same old local motel rental option when no vacancy happens.
Make sure your insurance policy covers vacation rentals and what inspections need in place to comply with the coverage rules, regulations, regulations. Safety first and last. Deck railing strong enough to protect your camper from leaning back and ending out in the pucker brush beside your lake property?
A visit to the local ER is not the recreational fun your Maine lodging guest signed up for right?
Have gas grills, kayaks, a couple bikes, binoculars or outdoor recreation tools and toys help your vacation renter enjoy added conveniences. And not need to pack a lot of extra bulky stuff on top of the Pinto or piled high on the trailer hitch tray on their old school International Scout.
The Coastal Fishing Zones That Slice & Dice Maine’s Craggy, Rock Bound Coastline.
Lastly, how many occupants in what you let the World consider renting for Maine vacations or extended stays? You don’t want three families horsing around and the added stress on your septic system. And using the place like Animal House community center.
I list, sell, manage and own waterfront properties and a rural farm rentals in Maine. The repeat, already know what you have property renters are trained and start to feel like your place is their own. It is or should feel like that if you go above and beyond to partner up to assure your property user you care about them.
The cottage, camp, timeshare vacation property renter appreciates the red carpet VIP local welcome to my hometown treatment.
The place to rent in Maine has to be clean, tidy and maybe run to a higher standard of housekeeping than where you call your real home.
Front Row, First Class Seating On The Maine Coast. Borders Little Machias Bay Downeast Maine.
If one burner only works on your cook stove. When the refrigerator spoils food due to can’t keep the temperature cool. Substandard conditions with real and personal property at your vacation property rental means bad reviews, no returns from the same lodging guests.
Same rules apply to rental properties in Maine that long term owners face.
Like an apartment house, what tenant are you after? One that trashes the place or treats it with pride and respect?
Do the neighboring owners thank or dislike you for all these crazy partying tenants?
More than the square footage or septic system was designed for chasing the almighty dollar? Was there value for the monetary exchange? What price point are you going after in your vacation property rental market? Does the place measure up as a value or someone feels short changed?
“The Starting Line Ups… For The Huskies, The ME Black Bears Tonight….”
Wouldn’t you want to return and spread the word back home about where you spend your Maine vacations if you have a great time?
Does the leave a comment or list some of your experiences on vacation book on the kitchen table show everyone had fun?
All people vacation differently due to interest, mobility, budget. Just sunrises, sunsets, a camp fire with a circle of lawn chairs. Gazing out over the wooded mountainside, rolling farm fields, the sparkling waterfront.
Paddling or swimming on a Maine lake or pond is enough for some.
Others want to know is there a casino, head to the water hole bars. Can you tell me Mister Host or Hostess is there an outdoor movie theatre, places with pulled pork and fish tacos or boiled lobster, maybe steamed clams, mussels or oysters.
Wildlife, Moose, Deer, Black Bear, Not People. What It’s Like Upta Camp In Maine.
Always what are we going to do for fun today depends on the weather forecast.
Your current guests in turn return the favor for the next ones. Everyone uses your what to do for fun in Maine vacation suggestions. And who knows, if they like it that much, let’s look over the vacation property listings and buy our own.
Who would you use for that search, comparison shopping to purchase a Maine real estate vacation property to enjoy and maybe rent out carefully?
Log Cabin, Cheap Maine Vacation. All You Need Is Your Own Place, A Camp.
Hope these blog tips on short term casual vacation rentals in Maine provided something you can use.
You probably have booked, stayed and enjoyed a few AirBnB or Vrbo rental properties to write down the list.
What did you like that your lodging guest would too? Questions? Thinking of investing in a vacation property in Maine of your own? To use a little until you retire but enjoy rental income to pay it off? Hardworking Maine real estate vacation properties from simple cabins to way way more plus everything in between.
Reach out, here to help find vacation rentals in Maine to lease out or even buy!
It’s spring, the Maine rivers are swollen, bloated with fast moving water caused by melting winter snow. Might as well dig out the blue, green, natural wood look canoe or whatever color water ride. Time in Maine to head to the nearest canoe and kayak river race on the circuit. Looking for canoe river races in Maine schedule?
Saturday’s race in Aroostook County’s oldest town, Houlton ME had 97 participants, 52 boats. Oh and two paddle boards.. see the tether hooking the board to the paddler so the two stay together in the ice cold fast moving Maine river water?
Been On Your Feet All Day? Er I Mean Through Maine River Rapids, Twists And Turns? River Race Paddlers, 2 In The Meduxnekeag River Race.
Ricker College started the Meduxnekeag River Race. And eventually after the college closed, the Houlton Rotary Club took over the orchestration. Food booths at the end that was at the covered bridge on the Framingham Road in Littleton Maine.
Higher faster water on a Maine river means faster times, maybe an canoe upset into the cold clear water. The mix of adrenaline fear and excitement make another river race under your belt a real natural high. Great exercise, everyone in the small Maine town or village gets out to take part. It’s spring, the rip off another month on the kitchen calendar. Ever paddled across a Maine lake or took the wild river Maine whitewater rafting?
Hang On, Keep Paddling. Paddling Harder, Strong. Then HOLD! Hold On To The Short Rope. Put Your Paddles Straight Out!
Family river race canoes with 2two kids, four racers total in them.
Longer Canoes, Like River Race Minivans. You See All Types, Ages And Reasons To Hit The River Race In Maine Circuit.
Gramp is up front leading the river race canoe strokes.
Follow his lead kids. Dad did the same Maine river race circuit when he was a little shaver. Single canoes or kayakers paddling for all they are worth. Some river race entries are taking their time. Others are on a mission and trying to win the ribbon or trophy or wooden mini paddle.
It’s all good and lots of common reasons to hit the fast moving, higher level river water.
Water in Maine, the recreational kind comes in many forms. Tubing on a Maine lake behind a jet ski or motor boat. A pontoon boat, party barge slowly plying the Maine lake. A sailboat out in the Atlantic Ocean or tacking across a lake or pond.
There is something about looking at, being on or in the water in Maine.
Depending on the season, how you enjoy the Maine water best revolves around temperatures and layers of clothing needed. But year long, everyday living in Maine. We are outdoors getting some fresh air, moving around and enjoying the four seasons of outdoor Maine.
Looking For The Best Time Or Slow Down. Let The River Do The Driving Down The Maine River. No Reason To Kill Ourselves.
Things to do for fun in Maine.
Put down canoe river races in Maine as one more possible outdoor recreational option up here in the state bordering Canada on two three. Reach out and share your adventures on the Maine river and send along images or video links if you have them!
Maine river races, they are in full swing and why not try to paddle down a few Maine rivers and whether you make it a race or pleasure cruise, it’s something you will never regret.
Think one Maine beach is pretty much like another up here in Vacationland?
Life Is A Beach Right? A Maine Beach Like Goose Rocks, Fortune Rocks in Kennebunkport ME!
Like people, soils, Maine beaches are different.
No the same. It’s not just the color and quality of the beach sand. It’s more than the amount of Maine beach frontage. The take away experience of any Maine beach is the way it is developed.
Goose Rock Beach in Maine is three miles long.
Whoa. That’s is one long stretch of Maine coast beach sand. Spacing is what hits you first blush with Goose Rock Beach in Maine.
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The quaintness of the cottage and beach homes feels like a step back into time.
Vacationing up in Maine. Simplicity, well kept and quiet unlike wall to wall tourists when there are times where you feel you can not move. Or like you share the Maine beach with too many tourists and the resources are over taxed.
Going there as a young girl with her family for two week summer stints. We take yearly trips to Wells Beach continuing the tradition.
But the more time you spend in your “happy place” home away from home up in Maine, you branch out and explore. Really get to know a region of Maine and what is around it. Meg’s mom, sister Jessica went for a ride to seriously scope out nooks and crannies around Wells Beach Maine. All the kids and Meg had gone to Saco’s waterpark Fun Town Splash Town.
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Goose Rock Beach was discovered and a return trip this past weekend felt like Wells Beach but transported back in time to the 1940’s, 1950’s period.
Prince Edward Island Canada can hit you with a similar feeling of nostalgia.
Anne Of Green Gables Home, Where The Red Pig Tailed Eleven Year Old Grew Up On A PEI Canadian Maritime Farm.
So Goose Rock Beach, what did we learn about this beach section of Kennbunkport, Maine?
(Sound of Maine map crinkling, unfolding.) Kennebunk and Kennebunkport are not one place.
Cape Porpoise is a section of Kennebunkport, Maine.
Fortune Rock Beach is in Biddeford, Maine is to the north, Wells Beach is to the south. Got your bearings yet? And you and I have not moved into all the islands off this section of Maine coast.
The woods and water for solitude in Maine have their own reward. Parked lakeside in Maine hits the soul. Waling a sandy beach or rocky shoreline with sea air and breeze. Hiking to the top of a mountain trail hits you deeply as you gaze out from peak perch.
There is nothing to compare with the Maine coastal beach sand, and rolling Atlantic Ocean waves in the “lobstah” state.
Fish Fresh From The Maine Coastal Sea. Barnacle Billy’s Crew Ham It Up For Tourists. J’s Oyster Fun Tasty Place to Sample Seafood In Old Port Too!
Part of it is more than the natural beauty setting. Add in the fresh seafood harvested fresh and local from deep blue and green water out front. And how hard the local property owners work to preserve and protect their piece of the Maine beach.
But underneath it all is like the trek to the Holy land. A deep spiritual emotion that wells up inside a person. Positioned near, on or in view the Maine ocean beach location for many is a mix of tradition, fond family memories.
The salt air, sea breeze, lobster boats, schooner sails and refreshing cold Maine coastal water provide life clarity.
Maine Coastal Beaches… Pick You Patch Of Sand. There’s Plenty.
Planning a vacation to Maine? Or live in Maine and looking for an instate getaway? Hope the travels around Maine posted on this Me In Maine blog post channel help provide suggestions you can use.
Maine lakes with motorboat horsepower restrictions.
Depending on your age and way you enjoy your waterfront in Maine, it’s important to know which lakes allow power boats. And the Maine lakes that limit the power attached to the back end of your boat. This blog post covers the A-Z of motorboat horsepower limits. Also the lakes in Maine that don’t allow power besides what you produce with a pair of paddles. Or harnessing the wind with a sail and tightening / loosening ropes.
For starters, in Maine there are do’s and don’t to protect the waterfront. In Maine lakes are protected by shoreland zoning regulations.
Any community can enact stricter Maine shoreland zoning rules and regulations too. So check for the latest on any new lake in Maine you want to fish, jet ski, slide your pontoon boat into on a hot summer day.
I listed and sold an Oakfield Maine lake cottage on Timoney Lake in Aroostook County where under ten horsepower is the rule then and today for motor size.
The owner included in the Maine waterfront property sale the cutest, smallest pontoon boat with a 9.9 horsepower motor for propulsion strapped to the back.
What’s Pushing Your Boat On A Maine Lake? Some Lakes Have Motor Boat Horsepower Limits. Or No Motors Allowed At All.
The questions comes up a lot on a Maine real estate call when a buyer wants to know is there a limit to the size of your boat motor.
Sometimes they have a pair of jet skis and want to pull tubes behind whatever brand they put in at the boat launch. Or no no, the cottage or lake lot buyers is not so cranked about jet skis or fast moving power boats. They want to paddle a kayak or have a small say 7.5 horsepower or smaller motor to push the craft around the Maine lake.
Dozing Off In The Maine Lakeside Hammock. Thinking You Have Next Year’s Firewood All In Place. Mainers are prepared, not taken by surprise.
The Maine lake survey list is here for depths, types of fish species, temperature, everything about each waterfront jewel.
Where is the list of Maine lakes with motorboat horsepower size limits or that ban anything beyond the paddle power?
No People, No Man Made Structure Or Noises. Welcome To Baxter State Park’s Mt Katahdin.
Maine lakes with horsepower restrictions, it all depends where you plan to float your boat.
Peace and quiet, no harm to the wildlife or shoreline happens when no motor is pushing you around a Maine lake or pond.
No motor boat lakes or ponds in Maine list.
Cushman Pond, Lovell,
Horseshoe Pond, Denmark
Boston Pond, Denmark
Bradley Pond, Lovell
Trout Pond, 13R5
Wylie Pond, Boothbay
Little Kennebago Lake, T3R4
Upper Dam Pool, T4R1 (from gates of dam, downstream or westerly 150 yards)
Durgin Pond, T2RG BKP WKR
Little Berry Pond, T2R6 BKP WKR
Lone Jack Pond, 12RS BKP WKR
Round Pond, T1 R6 BKP WKR
Fry Pan Pond, T2R5 BKP EKR
Blood Pond, T2R13 WELS
Loon Lake, Rangeley and Dallas Townships
Martin and/or Long Pond, The Forks Pit
Big Brook from Burt Garrity Road in T13 R1O WELS to and including Big Brook Lake in T14R1O WELS
Simpson Pond, Roque Bluff
Southern most part of Thompson Lake separated from the main body by a causeway known as The Heath, Casco
Little Pond, Damariscotta
Moxie Long Bog, Bald Mountain twp.
Clay Pond, Fryeburg
Watson Pond, Rome Twp.
Walton’s Mill Pond, West Farmington
Sand Pond, Limington Twp.
Saddleback Lake, Dallas Plt.
Hooper Pond (Little Sabattus), Greene
Adams Pond, Boothbay
Levenseller Pond, Searsrnont
Portage Lake, T13R6 WELS, that portion known as the Floating Island Area, north and westerly of a line beginning at the eastern edge of the marshy peninsula running out from Hutchinson Ridge, running 50 yards outside of the floating islands in a northerly direction to the mouth of Mosquito Brook
Quimby Pond, Rangeley
Jerry Pond, so called, situated within the boundaries, or having a shoreline abutting, the incorporated municipality of Millinocket and the unincorporated Townships being TlR7 and TAR7
Upper and Lower Ox Brook Lakes in the towns of T6ND, T6R1 and Talmadge
Snow’s Pond (as referred to in the Dunham-Daves Work Plan) situated west of Rt. 7, Dover-Foxcroft
Welcome To Nearly 2500 Acre Portage Lake Maine!Lots Of Room To Play, Fish, Relax On Clean Portage Lake Maine.
Maybe wind power and sailing is more your speed plying back and forth tacking on a Maine lake.
Depends on the day and the strength of the breeze on what type of sailing you will have on any lake in Maine. Check with the town or state regulator. Avoid a game warden giving you a warning or maybe a fine. Think of the loons nesting on that island over there. That the big waves created by round and round too close to shore can cause erosion. Mess up water fowl nesting areas, create sound pollution, etc. Plenty of Maine lakes for recreational boating but know before you go.
Erosion hurts the Maine lake, everything in swimming in it or around the precious body of water.
The lake camp and home owners on a Maine lake work hard to protect it.
Maine Shoreland Zoning Waterfront Regulations< Check With DEP Before You Buy Existing Or Building. !
Check with the local Maine lake association to learn more about each particular protected waterfront resource.
Some Maine lakes allow a certain horsepower for a period of months but not the entire season. Baxter State Park rules say no motorboats allowed except on Webster and Matagamon Lakes.
The next town over from where I live in Aroostook County Maine is Hodgdon. In the Lt. G. Manuel Wildlife Area in Hodgdon, Cary, Linneus Maine, no motorboats allowed at all. You can have a boat you hand paddle or slide in a kayak, a canoe powered the same way by hand. Why? Bald Eagles, other wildlife like the no motor interruption and others enjoying the natural resource area do too. These are not the place to jet ski and motorboat in Maine and are protected.
Peaceful, Quiet, Magical Mist Enjoying Fresh Coffee Early Morning On A Maine Lake.
Sometimes a retainer wall needs repair and less wave action from large boats that are not 200 feet or more from shoreline.
Respect whatever Maine lake you plan to enjoy any season of the year. Maine is the way life should be. But it does not just happen. Common sense is not enough. Study your lakes in Maine for the do’s and don’ts and respect it please. Be a good steward of the waterfront and protect it, pass it on in as good or better condition than you received it. That’s Maine, the way life should be.
