To Snow Island, Quahog Bay, ME

Monday the 12th was a beautiful clear day with the wind south at 10kts. With the near perfect conditions we left the Royal River and decided to pass up our usual first stop and push on around the Harpswell Peninsula and Bailey's Island on into Quahog Bay and the anchorage east of Snow Island.

(Photo 1 to left -Tropicbird at anchor near Snow Island.)





This is a beautiful and well protected spot. Snow Island is perhaps most noted because it is the home of Dodge Morgan who sailed his 60' cutter "American Promise" non-stop around the world in record time in the mid 1980's. He is now a columnist for the New England sailing magazine Points East. (Photo 2 to left - Dodge Morgan's schooner "Eagle" at its mooring off Snow Island- photo to left.)


Although it is not a "wilderness", there is also a remarkable amount of wildlife. There are Ospreys (Photo 3 to left) and Bald Eagles nesting in the area (we had a great look at the eagle as it came by the boat about 50' away, but of course, my camera was not at hand). Lots of Common Eiders (diving ducks) and Double-crested Cormorants are around as well as the ever present Herring Gulls and Greater Black-backed Gulls. We have also seen from the boat, Snowy Egrets, Common Terns, and a pair of Pileated Woodpeckers drumming on a large dead pine.


We have spent a number of days here, some because of fog (Photo 4 to left) and rain. But, even in poor weather it is a great place to be.









(Photo 5 - Sunset over Snow Island.)