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  • How Do You Like Your Water In Maine?

    The Maine magic happens usually on water, beside it, looking out over it. How do you like your water in Maine?

    The fast, rushing, verbal kind where you have to holler to be heard heading down a Maine river in a kayak or raft? With commands from your boat captain shouted. To paddle hard left, right, to hold. Grab that short robe and wedge a foot up under the thwart in front of you. And hope, pray, you stay in the boat. And preparing for if you don’t. Getting spilled into the drink. When the raft takes a hard angle and starts to turn over quickly.

    Maine River Rafting Water
    Hold! Grab The Short Rope, One Paddle Hand Extended! Hang On!

    Or maybe you want your water bottle polished calm, smooth as glass Maine glass.

    With loons, and birds the only sounds. Maybe the fire wood spitting, cracking and hissing as you add to the collection. The one you started that will take a life time. One by one capturing, experiencing Maine sunsets. Of all kinds, colors, intensities.

    Smell of a cook out somewhere down the lake as you kayak around it. Thinking about what is going to sizzle on your own grill when you paddle home. What you left on marinading all day long. For a tasty end to the day. Served up to go with that one of a kind Maine lake sunset.

    MaineLake Sunset
    Smooth, Sleeping, Polished Maine Water With A Dash Of Sunset Please.

    Maybe your water is for the sounds of lapping against rocks. Mixed with a little breeze to reduce the heat off a summer evening in Maine.

    Lull you to sleep with the sound of rain pelting or gently tapping the roof of the cabin. Where you are snug as bug. Warm and toasty, snuggled up in your bed in dry surroundings.

    Maybe your water is best observed alone, perched high up and causing thousand yard stares, detachment.

    Maine Kayaks, Lake Photo
    Pick A Color, Which Maine Kayak Goes Best With Your Personality Today?
    That is the aviation grade, high octane Maine waterfront that blows you away. Makes you feel very small, humble, grateful.

    Or it’s chilled, frozen water that catches your fancy. Skating, skiing, carving on it. The white blindness of it all with cobalt blue Maine skies overhead. Cutting holes for fish to escape from their wintery water world. To be your supper. Or to get a second change, a pardon, reprieve. A one way ticket. Back into the drink. Escorted through the five inch hole made by the Jiffy auger.

    Find your type of water in Maine. It’s all unfiltered, all natural and pure. Maine, where you want to be, need to be. Don’t stay away so long. She’s waiting.

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

  • Building On A Maine Waterfront Lot, Land On Lake, River, Pond.

    Man Made Roads, Driveways, Development Around A Lake, River Can Mess Up That Water Resource.
    Man Made Roads, Driveways, Development Around A Lake, River Can Mess Up That Water Resource.

    The days of firing up the bulldozer, backhoe or excavator to remove rocks along a Maine lake, other waterfront property are long gone.

    Not without a permit and showing you are improving an existing situation, waterfront development and restoration is a process where there has to be good intent. To protect the resource that man messes up when too many individuals crowd around a precious resource like the Maine ocean, a lake, river, stream or pond.

    We all want waterfront. To spend time on the water, beside it and reflecting, enjoying the four seasons of Maine. But if the animals, wildlife, fish could talk, they would say loud and clear that man messes it up. Clearing 30% of your lot and not changing the landscape in the 100 feet from the edge of that Maine waterfront is the first rule of order.

    Crew cutting the Maine waterfront land, putting in a long lush green lawn that would rival that of a top shelf golf course is not making the wildlife, local population happy.

    Keep it pristine, plant trees, not remove them. Think roadways that cause further soil erosion and sediment in the lake that makes it hard to breath, see if you are a fish or swimmer yourself. Consider giving the lake to your kids in better shape than you receive it. Think watershed, a lumber, timber cutting operation miles and miles away that dump soil, nutrients in to that body of water you enjoy so much.

    Building driveways at an angle, or with a landing above the cottage you intend to build to avoid runoff is the lot is sloped, tilted toward the waterway. Piles of topsoil when it rains hard just wash and blow into the lake and muddy things up, literally. For more on soil erosion protection of a Maine lake study up on how to protect the water resource before it is lost, visit the ME DEP shoreland zoning website. This shoreland zoning for Maine property owners flyer is also filled with the good stuff. Owning Maine waterfront is a partnership with that waterfront, the wildlife.

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