July 31, 2011

• Beautiful Maine

  After a month here DownEast, we are more convinced than ever that Maine is the place to spend your Summer - and Fall, if you can. The cool nights demand a blanket - even if the days sometimes get up into the eighties during late July and August.
  Our camp is on the shore of a fairly large lake - on of the few in ME with a resident eagle population, must to the distress of the annual loon nesters - who are convinced that their babies are at risk of being eagle-snatched - even though the eagles clearly prefer the abundant fish. One of the Maine State Inland fisheries biologists gave a talk to our group the other evening. In response to a question he said on a scale of 1-10 our lake rated 11 as fish & wildlife habitat and for recreation. Surprisingly here on a beautiful sunday morning, I can see only a couple of fishing boats and one seadoo.
  This on a lake over two miles wide and seven miles long. A lake that is so pure that it is the site of a National Salmon Hatchery at its lower end.

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