Maine '04 Five: Miles From Sunreturn and Glad I Brought The Long Lenses

I have a correction to my previous post. All of the preceding Maine 2004 shots WERE the "Down East" stuff. I don't know what they call the coast south of Penobscot Bay, but that's where we are now, headed up and down the Kennebec and Sheepscot Rivers, ogling AEGIS Destroyers in the shipyards at Bath and trying to get a fog-free view of the Sequin Island or Pond Island Lights (easier said than done). Here's the first half of those 2 1/2 strange days, starting with a 500mm shot of Burnt Island Lighthouse in Boothbay Harbor.

Had to keep the long lens on the camera for this one, too. This is Ram Island Light.

Hendricks Head Light, near Southport. This one was pretty shy, too.

Down at Newagen, we got this ominous sky (it looked like this a lot through the mid-week, but rarely did much more than drizzle and look New England-y) over Cuckolds Light, again with a 500mm mirror lens and no tripod.

[Maris] captured this fogged-in little harbor and its quintessentially Maine boat house.

Another [Maris] shot, with some of her signature framing - this is Doubling Point Light on the Kennebec River.

One of my shots of Doubling Point. The Kennebec is still an extremely busy waterway, and has seen the maiden voyages of many newly-commissioned AEGIS Destroyers, among other ships built a few miles north of this lighthouse, in Bath.

Tip-toeing through the moss and mud, we crept farther onto this privately-owned lighthouse property than we wanted to, but The Shot is what matters. This is Squirrel Point Lighthouse, on the Kennebec River near Phippsburg.

I'm zooming as hard as I possibly can.

Here's Squirrel Point Light from the other side of the river, 500mm-style. We saw this about eight times in three days, as we returned to the beach over and over, trying to get a shot of the lights offshore there. There was a lot of fog. If we stayed much longer, they were going to make us start paying Maine taxes.

Coming up next, non-lighthousey stuff and oh the FOG... then we'll get to the classic "Nubble" and Portland Head material, post-sunreturn. I know - I'm pretty excited about it...
-J