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| The graceful little Lady H Chugging to the dock in Eastport Maine |
A Mulligan is a new slang for me, meaning a 're-do'. As happens I told the festival people how I missed the boat trip on Saturday and I was told I'm not the first person screwed up because - my iPhone had switched over picking up the time from a Canadian cell tower, showing an hour later than Maine time! So it wasn't the rental car's clock that threw me, the car had the correct time. It was my always trusted iPhone that threw me off! That means back on Saturday, I was at the dock at the right time and when I drove off thinking I was a half hour late for the trip, but I was really
20 minutes early. Damn it! Never even occurred to me to ask any of the folk there at the Fish & Chips stand about the time.
So today I drove on back north to Eastport, only this time ignoring my iPhone. I walked to the pier, and there sat the innocent Lady
H, the small boat I'd be taking a trip out of the harbor on. It was actually
8:50 before anyone, even the captain arrived. At 9:10 AM we pulled out of
the port.
It was rather a somewhat miserable, ergo normal maritime journey, raining on and off. Periodically the icy salt water would blast over the
sides and douse passengers – we'd smile, because I swear, Neptune has a sense
of humor.
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| East Quoddy Head Lighthouse, Campobello Island |
Maine has Bald Eagles, the way Alaska has Bald Eagles - they're everywhere you find water, and that is practically every place you go.
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| I bet flinging yourself off a snag is an E-ticket ride |
The highlight of the trip was stopping at White Horse Island,
where hundreds of Black-legged Kittiwakes nested. Am pleased with my photos, of
Kittiwake pairs on their nests, looking like concerned parents.
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| Wall of Kittiwakes |
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| Kittiwake Condo |
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| Black-legged Kittiwakes |
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| Common Eider Drake on some of the island's lower lying property |
I got a nice
shot of one Kittiwake on the water, wings spread, and you can see its lovely
ink dipped wing tips.
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| Black-legged Kittiwakes with ink dipped wing tips |
Unlike my two previous Maine Pelagic trips, there was no disembarking onto any islands. We just enjoyed watching the birds, seals and even weirs, as we worked our way around the waters of the Atlantic and Passamaquody Bay.
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| Stopped to look at Salmon pens/weirs, for commercially raised salmon |
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| Salmon Weir/Pen |
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| I never get enough of flying Eiders |
In the early afternoon when we docked in Eastport I took off north, already plotting my next adventure of the day.
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