These waters are best suited to kayaks (eek) or a sea canoe. The tidal range is 24 feet. The operative word is quick. Unload and load quick. The tide drops one foot vertically in 15 minutes. Cobscook Falls has a wicked current.. some 15 knots. Its a reversing falls. These pics are on the ebb. The flood is much more powerful. Slack tide through the slot lasts 15 minutes.
Cobscook Bay is in easternmost Maine on the New Brunswick border. As there are many more people that live nearby in New Brunswick and almost none in Maine, your cell service will be picked up by Canadian towers. So leave that device OFF.
We got food from natures larder--somewhat. Clamming is not easy! We fortified the self gather menu with lobster from a coop in Lubec. And corn from Dayton ME (thats all the way on the OTHER side of the state)
Wicked hole there! This is the falls with a three or four foot drop with recurving waves and strong eddylines with whirlpools
The birds don't care..L'Oiseau which are you?
Time to BS while paddling. I love this pic because my hubby on the left looks like he is WAAY too big for his kayak And he has balance problems on the shore( menieres disease). But on the water he surfs four footers with no problem. He wont give up this boat. Its 23 years old. He says who cares? Hmmm..like some canoeists!!
What is the name for a female Inukshuk? Besides Amazon? This one was 8 feet high.
Typical Maine morning in the demi fog
Huh? Get to work!!
View from the campsite
This was a Maine Island Trail Association camping weekend. All of the MITA staff were there. Some of us paddled with Tess and Steve, wonderful informative paddlers and people from Cobscook Hikes and Paddles. They had offered to act as guides for a trip on the Bay. They partner with MITA. They were expecting to guide. 11 of us turned up with our own boats. Steve and Tess loved it.. They said that it was a vacation ..more like paddling with friends. No one needed to be coached and Steve and Tess were so pleased to be able to simply share their love and knowledge of the area.
If you're in Eastern Maine I would look them up. No matter what your experience level is overall there is a lot of local knowledge they can share. I especially liked their stories of working with school kids in the area. Kind of like Memaquay! I think we need more mentoring like that.
http://www.cobscookhikesandpaddles.com/index.html
Their website is IMO not reflective of the experience they offer. But Tess is a native Eastporter. Understated. She has to my ears no "Maine accent". Steve does. He is from Maryland. So it goes..
Cobscook Bay is in easternmost Maine on the New Brunswick border. As there are many more people that live nearby in New Brunswick and almost none in Maine, your cell service will be picked up by Canadian towers. So leave that device OFF.
We got food from natures larder--somewhat. Clamming is not easy! We fortified the self gather menu with lobster from a coop in Lubec. And corn from Dayton ME (thats all the way on the OTHER side of the state)
Wicked hole there! This is the falls with a three or four foot drop with recurving waves and strong eddylines with whirlpools
The birds don't care..L'Oiseau which are you?
Time to BS while paddling. I love this pic because my hubby on the left looks like he is WAAY too big for his kayak And he has balance problems on the shore( menieres disease). But on the water he surfs four footers with no problem. He wont give up this boat. Its 23 years old. He says who cares? Hmmm..like some canoeists!!
What is the name for a female Inukshuk? Besides Amazon? This one was 8 feet high.
Typical Maine morning in the demi fog
Huh? Get to work!!
View from the campsite
This was a Maine Island Trail Association camping weekend. All of the MITA staff were there. Some of us paddled with Tess and Steve, wonderful informative paddlers and people from Cobscook Hikes and Paddles. They had offered to act as guides for a trip on the Bay. They partner with MITA. They were expecting to guide. 11 of us turned up with our own boats. Steve and Tess loved it.. They said that it was a vacation ..more like paddling with friends. No one needed to be coached and Steve and Tess were so pleased to be able to simply share their love and knowledge of the area.
If you're in Eastern Maine I would look them up. No matter what your experience level is overall there is a lot of local knowledge they can share. I especially liked their stories of working with school kids in the area. Kind of like Memaquay! I think we need more mentoring like that.
http://www.cobscookhikesandpaddles.com/index.html
Their website is IMO not reflective of the experience they offer. But Tess is a native Eastporter. Understated. She has to my ears no "Maine accent". Steve does. He is from Maryland. So it goes..
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