MYSTERY HARBOR/And th e winner is.. .
Mystery Harbor is part of their day cruise It looks like the view from and finally a glorious Five Islands Harbor across beach and several the Sheepscot River from lighthouses, Seguin’s Hendricks Head on being the highest light Southport Island. If it is that along the coast. location, the telephoto lens We daysail a Shields makes it look like a narrowsloop along this coast er river than it seems when (see Letters on page 7) you’re out there. and on the occasional I make a point of taking moonlit night. There’s my mother-in-law (age 90) a spot off the mouth of and her sister-in-law (age the Sheepscot River 102) to the lobster shack from which you can (www.fiveislandslobster.com) see seven lighthouses over to Five Islands at least on a clear night: once a summer in their boat, Monhegan, Pemaquid, a 25-foot Lyman hardtop. We Ram, The Cuckolds, all live in West Boothbay Burnt, Hendrick Head Harbor and pass through A telephoto lens distorted this image of the Sheepscot River, and Seguin. I’m conTownsend Gut and Newagen but several readers thought out of the box and correctly iden- vinced seeing them all harbor on the loop, thus tified this harbor as Five Islands. alight at the same momaking a whole day of it. ment brings good luck. Last year, we snaked through the eastern cut at Five Islands has a summer community island that Newagen on an extremely low tide and saw the full is just to the right of the frame in the photo. Friends moon rise over Monhegan as we cruised on home. spend part of their summer over there, and the rest The eastern shore of Georgetown Island is a won- on Southport. There are many such communities derful stretch of the Sheepscot River. A day’s cruise along this stretch of coast, including MacMahan, through the tide races of the Sasanoa, through Goose Capitol, Squirrel and Inner Heron. Rock Passage, behind MacMahan Island, through The island residents have their own float next to Five Islands, past Harmon Harbor to Griffith Head, Five Islands’ public one. Anyone can tie up at the puband then to Seguin offers the full range of sights and lic one while getting a meal or ice cream, but leave as navigational challenges along the Maine coast. These much room for others as possible. If there no room at include deep water mixed with narrow passages, the lobster shack, Sarah’s Cafe has had a dockside marked and unmarked ledges, and hundreds of lob- lunch counter farther upstream between Five Islands ster buoys (some pulled just under the surface by the and MacMahan that’s nice, too. charging current). But the rewards include hidden There are fuel docks and services available in Five coves, eagle and osprey nests, seals, porpoise, whales, Islands, at Robinhood Marine upriver, and at
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