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July 11-14, 2024

My travels continue up the coast of Maine and continue where Part I left off. We are still in Rockland/Rockport. Marshall Point Lighthouse is located near the fishing village of Port Clyde, Maine. It has a unique walkway to the light house, but is closed off to the public.

For the sunset, I was in the Rockport harbor area. It’s always hard to photograph harbor scenes as most of the time they look cluttered, but I do my best. Again the sunset mostly disappoints, but there was some color.

The next morning, I traveled up the coast a few miles to Camden. The harbor contained quite a number of sailing boats.

I had booked a sail on the Historic Appledore II Wooden Schooner with two masts. It was a beautiful day compared to the last few days. However, there was very little wind and we were undersail for only about 15-20 minutes before being becalmed. But it was a great trip anyway!

We had nice views of Curtis Island light house and other sail boats.

Back in the harbor, another sail boat is departing. These are a sample of the buoys found hanging in a lot of places.

In Camden after lunch, I found a very peculiar waterfall that was coming from under the buildings on Main Street and is called the Megunticook Falls. The river has a dam a little up stream on the other side of Main Street. Since the 1940s the buildings are built on foundations above the water which flows under the buildings and then over the falls.

I continue up the coast past Belfast to Stockton Springs. On the western side entrance of the Penobscot River, off Fort Point Road is the Fort Point Lighthouse.

The above photo was at an antique shop and shows the variety of lobster trap buoys.

I traveled back to Belfast for ice cream and harbor views of the sunset. This was the best sunset of the whole trip, so hence a lot of photos. The different colors are from the way that I processed them. The first and last large photos are straight iPhone images with the phone doing all of the processing.

My motel in Belfast was right on Belfast Bay and I happened to wake up at 5 AM for not much of a sunrise. In the parking lot there were many varieties of day lilies.

The next two days were spent more inland with a friend that lived in Maine and knew some great places to photograph. We went to the campus of Colby College in Waterville, ME and visited the art gallery and viewed a film from the film fest.

After dinner we went down to the river walk along the Kennebec River in Waterville, ME.

The next day we drove up to Bangor, ME. Along the way we found the Souadabscook Stream. You will see quite a few photos of the “silky” water which a lot of photographers like. I discovered that using “Live View ” on the iPhone and then later converting to “long exposure” produces this effect even hand holding the camera! On an SLR type camera you need a tripod and then slow the shutter speed to 1/2 to 1 sec to produce this effect.

We continued north of Bangor to Bradley where there is the Maine Forest and Logging Museum. Surprisingly, there were very few people here on a Sunday. A docent explained that back in the 1890s logging was a big industry in this part of Maine. The problem was other than using horses, how can you get the logs pulled out of the woods to the river to float to the mills? The solution was to make these giant steam engines with tracks in the back and, although not showing, skies in the front. These engines could haul 10-15 sleds loaded with logs mostly downhill over the snow to the river. The engines had no brakes so look out on the path ahead! The photo on the left shows a saw to make boards from the logs. The photo on the right is a saw that makes shingles, and to this day there are a lot of houses with shingle roofs and also shingle sidings.

One of the main reasons why I wanted come here was that located on Blackman Stream in Bradley, Leonard’s Mills is at the actual site of an early pioneer settlement, identified by the remains of a stone dam and a covered bridge on site. The mill was used to saw boards from logs. The Museum brought in buildings or reconstructed them to make a pioneer village.

The next photos show more views of the covered bridge and mill and also the dam upstream.

We had lunch in Milford right beside the Penobscot River.

I think the slow moving water creates nice abstract effects.

My friend Al, knew all of the river rapids and waterfalls in this area as he had canoed and kayaked these rivers and streams over the years. Next we are on the Penobscot Indian Reservation on Orson Island on the Stillwater River.

The next stop is in Orono, still on the Stillwater River. We walked out on an old railroad bridge for these photos.

Finally two more stops on the Kenduskeeag Stream near Bangor, ME.

I hope that you have enjoyed this last part with all the waterfalls and streams with the silky water effects. I tried to include some of the regular photos and you can decide which effects that you like the best.

This completes the first part of the trip to Maine. Stay tuned for Acadia National Park in Part III.