Great Company and Good Dining in Southport Island Maine

Like these Canadian Geese it was time to spread the wings and head south towards home today. It was a great week up at Cozy Cove Cottage and ended up on a high note with Cindy and Max’s visit. The weekend started with their late night arrival and a chance to shoot the breeze with Max in the cool night air until the early morning. The next day was spent with drives around the Boothbay area and shopping for dinner. Anchoring our feast with lobster and steamers we sated ourselves into an early coma. For years I have been driving Max crazy with my spelling of dining, I seem stuck for some reason into always spelling it dinning. When the lobsters turned red and the new potatoes matched it was time to call all to the table. It was time for some fine dinning, ops I mean dining.

Mzima Springs and National Geographic

You can tell a lot about people when you rent their place, John Blois has stacks of National Geographic magazines piled up. I brought several books with me up to Cozy Cove Cottage but really didn’t pick them up much. Instead I traversed the world on the pages of NG. From Russia to Egypt I read wonderful stories and saw amazing photos. I was particularly fascinated by an article in the November 2001 NG; it was about the Hippos that habituate Mzima Springs in Kenya. I had the chance to visit there this past March. The info in the article about life amongst the Hippos and Crocs was intensive and for a bit I was back in Kenya. That’s along way from my peaceful perch up here in Southport Island, Maine.

Nature Runs Mid-Coast Maine

It is a rainy blustery day here in Mid-Coast Maine and that’s alright by me. Most of my traveling is fast moving and no long stays. Here I am anchored much like the boats that bob in the ocean… movement but limited. It feels great to be at a peaceful place and close to the rhythms of a lifestyle that is geared to the sea. Nature is the ruler here and all follow her moods. It will be nice to walk to Hendricks’s Head Lighthouse and work up an appetite. NE clam chowder is called for when the wind blows and the rain falls.

Lobster Facts

Here are some facts about lobsters otherwise know as Maine's red gold.
Lobsters usually hunt for food at night. They eat fish, crabs, clams, snails, sea stars, mussels and sea urchins. By nature, lobsters are not cannibalistic, except when held in crowded conditions.
Like dolphins, lobsters use complicated signals to establish social relationships. They sometimes walk hand-in-hand, the old leading the young.
True lobsters have two very powerful claws. One claw is sharp and used for cutting, the other is bony and used for crushing. Lobsters that have their heavy ("crusher") claw on the right are considered "right-handed" and the others are "left-handed". Some lobsters are ambidextrous, they usually favor the claw that is the largest.

Maine's Lighthouses

Lil, Max and Cindy, Cosy Cove Awaits

I traveled many fingers that jut out into the Atlantic from the craggy Maine Coast today, yet I found no view better than from my bed at Cosy Cove here on Southport Island. The crisp air and coffee in bed was such a pleasure. Still I traversed down from Boothbay to Port Clyde and lunched in the pretty town of Damariscotta. I then went to New Harbor and all over back roads of Pemaquid Peninsula. Still when I got back to Cosy Cove, I felt at home. I will wrestle with a two pound lobster tonight to stay in shape; I bet we both end up covered in Katy’s Butter. I will always choose lobster tossing to taking down a steer! Max will need the down time here. http://www.gonomad.com/lodgings/0609/maine-rental.html

Cosy Again in Maine

Life is sweet here at Cosy Cove, Maine, indeed even the news of stock tumbles hurts less as I stare out on the water. I wrote an article two years ago on this place for GoNOMAD. The owner John Blois invited me for a weeks stay, many thanks John!

Falling in Love with Fall

I noticed that the temps in Phoenix today were in the high nineties; do not miss that at all. For the years I lived in Scottsdale I had a bad case of fall envy. I would remember my years of living in the NE when the magic of fall would fall. I could only think about turning leaves and the cool evenings when a sweater would be necessary. I could only wonder when I would once again enjoy my favorite season. I would think back to lighting a fire in the fireplace and zoning out, comfy as a cat. When I moved back here to Ulster County some friends though I was crazy, I am but mostly about fall.