Warren Island - Castine, ME

Warren Island
Sunday, August 4 - We pulled up anchor at 8:15 and headed north again to visit a few more places, buddy boating with En El Viento and True Live. We knew there would be rain but hoped that we would miss most of it. By 9:30 a.m. Kevin said the storm was coming our way and hailed En El Viento and True Love to see if they were agreeable to pick up speed. We motored at 7.3 knots and went 12 miles to our next destination. We anchored in the rain at 10:30 a.m. in the cove between the islands of 700 Hundred Acre and Warren. We quickly closed up the cockpit and went downstairs! After the rain we took pepper in the dinghy and stopped at Warren State Park on Warren Island for a quick look.

Castine
Monday, August 5 - In the morning we did a 1.5 mile hike around Warren Island. It’s a beautiful island and state park with semi-primitive campsites. There are toilets, lean-to structures, water spinets and nicely paved trails around the island but the only way to get to the island is by boat. We passed by a gravestone from 1841 of a wife that died at the age of 22 and the foundation remains of a homestead that was a 27 bedroom log cabin summer home built in 1899. It burned down in 1919.
We pulled anchor at 1:00 p.m. along with En El Viendo and True Love. We motor-sailed on a port tack with winds between 10 and 15 knots around the Island of Islesboro, circling from the west side of the island, around the north side, then down the east side and over to Castine. Once on the east side we were heading south and the winds died so we pulled in the sails. We anchored at 4:12 p.m.
What is nice about this area is fewer lobster pots, not nearly as numerous as the Bar Harbor area. The bad part is that may be due to the water having spill off from a plant. Castine is on the mainland, across Penobscot Bay from Belfast. That evening everyone came to out boat for appetizers and cocktails,

Tuesday, August 6 - We spent the day walking around Castine visiting old fort sites and a museum. It started off with a casual walk with Renee and Gary looking at the homes, then met up with Marie and Guy and had lunch at a food stand, the only place we found open! After lunch we did a 4.5 mile walk farther out to visit the sites of Fort George, built by the British in 1779, Fort Pentagoet, a sign only, built by the French in 1630 and destroyed by the Dutch in 1676, and Fort Madison built by the US in 1811. On the same site as Fort Madison a missionary was built 170 years earlier. We went to the Wilson Museum that contains many artifacts from Penobscot Bay and around the world, such as fossils, different types of rocks, and tools used by different cultures. Two days a week it has demonstrations in the blacksmith shop and tours of the historic John and Phebe Perkins house from circa 1783 who established the earliest permanent settlement. Unfortunately we were not there on one of the tour days. Along our walk we found many historical markers relating events from the 1600 to 1800’s. Castine was first discovered by the French in the 1630’s, occupied by the Dutch in 1674 and 1676, then claimed by the British in 1713. While Britain ceded Maine (then part of Massachusetts) to the US after the American Revolution Britain occupied it again in 1814 during the War of 1812.
Later in the afternoon we attempted to go to Danny Murph’s Irish Pub but they didn’t allow dogs, their loss $$$! Instead we all went to True Love’s boat for happy hour. We said goodbye to Marie and Guy as they are heading north to Belfast and Bar Harbor and we’re going south. We hope to meet up with them again during our travels.もっと詳しく