Little is Cute

[Lawreston]

Now isn't this a cute little place to spend your spare time, meditate, contemplate? It's just a little piece of back home.

HR

 

[Lawreston]

- - and it is "little" when compared to its surroundings; also, relative to the size of my original image from which THIS panorama image was created.

HR

 

[LevelWing]

Looks like a nice little place, until a storm comes through. Not sure where that is or what storms are like, but I could see flooding being an issue. Otherwise, nice place. That was probably very expensive.

 

[SixPapaCharlie]

I believe you have found Heaven


where is this?

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

Just add seaplane and its perfect

 

[Henning]

Just add seaplane and its perfect

Yep, that picture needs a PBY or Martin Mars in it.

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

Have wondered if the proposed sea level rise would affect coastal property values. Or, when. Even if said rises are decades/centuries away.

 

[BiffJ]

Is that the owls head area?
Frank

 

[Lawreston]

That is Flea Island. In the panorama image from bottom to top: Gay Island, Flea Island, Pleasant Point Harbor, Pleasant Point, Davis Point; and at extreme upper left corner is a slice of shore line of Friendship, Maine. Pleasant Point is the southern tip of my home town, Cushing, Maine. I grew up about 4sm north of Pleasant Point. Move your cursor from dead center, up to the longer of the wharves(the one with the large building[bait shack] on it. My cousin is the owner of it and the lobster business. Back in the '40s and early '50s it was owned by a fellow who was our 2nd-cousin. Unfortunately, Harland was lost at sea during the terrible blizzard in 1952.
If anyone has read any of the nearly 40 novels by the late Elizabeth Ogilvie, Liz used to own Gay Island and had a summer home on it. Quaint little 13½ sq. mile town. Liz's winter home can be seen in this other image. It had been her parents' home over the decades.

 

[Henning]

Have wondered if the proposed sea level rise would affect coastal property values. Or, when. Even if said rises are decades/centuries away.

Already has in VA, NC, SC, GA low lands. FL is spending billions building up the coastland. So Fla canal properties are seeing more frequent flooding raising infrastructure problems as well as NFIP costs and mandated the redrawing of flood zones and adding new properties to the rosters that have to buy flood insurance now to maintain a mortgage. I happen to live on one such property that was added a couple years back.

The economic impacts are already here, don't let them bull**** you into self delusion.

 

[Lawreston]

Owls Head is barely south of Rockland. From Pleasant Point, drive about 10 miles to Thomaston, turn right to go to Rockland(about 5 miles). At the T-intersection of Park Street and Main Street, turn right and drive about 4 miles to the turn-off for Owls Head Light Station.

HR

This flight garnered me aerials of Wiscasset, Waldoboro, Friendship, Cushing, Thomaston, Rockland, Owls Head, Rockport, South Thomaston, Warren, Wiscasset(return trip) and Damariscotta.

 

[Everskyward]

Just add seaplane and its perfect

As long as it's not winter...

 

[Lawreston]

Caught just off Pleasant Point - -

HR

 

[Lawreston]

As long as it's not winter...

The owner of Flea Island, Eric Larz Anderson, I've never met. I remember when I was a teenager(starting in 1957) my lobster fisherman uncle was friendly with Larz Anderson who, if I remember correctly, was Headmaster of some elite private school in Connecticut. Based on the decades gap to now, I'd guess Eric Larz Anderson is a son of Larz or, perhaps, even a grandson. Scary, isn't it, how time has marched on.

HR

 

[BillTIZ]

Great pictures! Most of your pictures are along the coast. But I remember an island camp on a lake somewhere near Poland Springs. Much smaller than that island.

The "Y" camp on Cobboseecontee (sp?) had some camp sites on the Sister Islands.

 

[Lawreston]

Bill: That might be Thompson Lake , near Poland Spring; or Sabbathday Lake, both prime camping/boating areas.

HR